Graduate Project/Design Manager

Buro Happold; Royal Borough of Greenwich; Hybrid; GBP 26.000 - 34.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Buro Happold is seeking a Graduate to join our Projects team with opportunities in Bath and London. The role focuses on project design management, coordinating specialists, meeting deadlines, and maintaining realistic commercial frameworks while fostering creativity.

Candidates should bring strong communication, planning, and independent working skills, with an interest in coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and improving processes. We value flexible working patterns.

Qualifikationen

• Proven ability to communicate with senior staff across the practice.
• Strong planning and deadline management skills.
• Experience coordinating multiple specialists and design streams.

Kenntnisse

Communication skills

Planning ahead

Multi-project work

Excel

Proactive attitude

Problem spotting

Independent working

Delivery responsibility

Process improvement

Ausbildung

Design Management

Project Management

Construction Management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Jobbeschreibung

We are looking for a Graduate to join our Projects team in Bath and London. With a world class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities alike. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.

What is Project Design Management?

We ensure our client’s design projects run smoothly with the help of our expertise in hitting deadlines, mitigating risk and coordinating specialists. Our project design management services include:

A single point of contact fully informed on the progress of the whole multidisciplinary team

Guidance on which specialists your project needs and when

Clear guidance on any complex technical issues

Maintaining a realistic commercial framework without compromising creativity

An overview of your project’s progress, risks and timetable across multiple design work streams

Advice on contract and procurement approaches

Improving team cohesion, mitigating risks and addressing potential problems early

The transformation of the 42-acre brownfield site around the formerly redundant Battersea Power Station is one of the most ambitious regeneration projects London has seen in decades. Electric Boulevard, featuring vibrant rows of independent shops with stylish apartments above, will be at the heart of the new community.

The University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus sits at the heart of the city’s vibrant new Temple Quarter and adjacent to the main railway terminus, Bristol Temple Meads. With improvements to the train station planned, as well as new housing, infrastructure, retail and leisure areas, the Temple Quarter initiative aims to create 22,000 jobs over the lifetime of the project.

New Stadium for Everton

To give fans the modern matchday experience they expect, Everton is putting everything that makes Goodison Park so special – the character, camaraderie and shared sense of tradition – into creating an inspirational new place to play and watch football. Set on Liverpool’s waterfront, the planned stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock will reinvigorate a semi-derelict site less than two miles along the Mersey from the famous Royal Liver Building.

What skills can you bring to the role?

• Proficient communication skills, comfortable conversing with senior staff members across the practice
• Organised and able toplan aheadto meet deadlines
• Ability to work across multiple projects and prioritise tasks appropriately
• Intermediate level skills in Microsoftofficeespecially Excel.
• Proactive and approachable attitude when dealing with internal and external customers
• Sufficiently perceptive to spotpossible problemsand takeappropriate actionto address or elevate as needed
• Able to work independently anddemonstrateinitiative
• Enthusiastic about delivering excellent performance; takes responsibility for own delivery
• Canidentifywhere processes maybenefitfrom improvement

What degree would I have studied?

We welcome people into our team with a broad range of experience. Typical degrees include:

• Design Management
• Project Management
• Construction Management

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another.Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.