Senior Design Lead — Multi-Scheme & Bid Leadership

United Infrastructure Ltd; Dartford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

United Infrastructure Ltd seeks a Principal Design Lead to provide senior technical leadership across multiple schemes, bridging design management and strategic oversight. You will lead bid-stage input, manage escalated design issues, and support the Head of Technical in driving consistency and performance.

You will mentor Senior Design Managers and Design Managers, while maintaining hands-on responsibility on key projects to ensure compliant, buildable solutions across residential and mixed-use

Qualifications

• Senior design management experience across multiple residential or mixed-use projects.
• Ability to lead bid-stage technical input and coordinate design across schemes.
• Strong knowledge of design management processes from bid to handover.
• Experience mentoring Design Managers and overseeing complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership across multiple projects, supporting Design Managers in delivering compliant, buildable design solutions.
• Escalation point for technical and design issues; drive timely resolution and risk mitigation.
• Lead design input into bids, including value engineering opportunities and programme development.
• Ensure consistency of design management practices, standards and procedures.
• Mentor Senior Design Managers and Design Managers while retaining hands-on project involvement.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Problem solving

Multi-tasking

Proactive

Stakeholder management

Education

Architecture/Engineering degree

Tools

BIM

Digital design mgmt systems

Job description

United Infrastructure Ltd seeks a Principal Design Lead to provide senior technical leadership across multiple schemes, bridging design management and strategic oversight. You will lead bid-stage input, manage escalated design issues, and support the Head of Technical in driving consistency and performance.

You will mentor Senior Design Managers and Design Managers, while maintaining hands-on responsibility on key projects to ensure compliant, buildable solutions across residential and mixed-use