Senior Design Manager

Kier Group; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Kier Group is seeking an M&E Senior Design Manager to lead the design process for Building Solutions South across London and the South with hybrid working options.

You will coordinate design delivery, manage multidisciplinary teams, and liaise with clients to ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, and within budget. The role focuses on M&E-led refurbishments and new builds up to £20m, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and constructability.

Qualifications

• Experience in Design Management within an MEP/building services environment.
• Proven ability to manage the design delivery of multiple projects or large, technically complex schemes.
• Appropriate construction-related qualification and CSCS card.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate the design process across projects, ensuring drawings, specifications and design information are produced and issued in line with programme and budget.
• Lead internal and external design teams, including consultants and BIM/Revit teams, with clear roles and responsibilities.
• Liaise with clients on design matters, building strong relationships and providing progress reporting.
• Identify, assess and manage design risks, embedding CDM and design safety principles.
• Chair design meetings, workshops and design reviews, communicating status, programme, risks and actions to clients and project teams.

Skills

Design management

M&E building services

BIM/Revit coordination

Client liaison

Education

Construction-related qualification

Tools

BIM/Revit

Job description

We're looking for an M&E Senior Design Manager to join our Building Solutions South team based in London/South / Hybrid.

Location:

London, Hampshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire

Hours:

40 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of the design process across multiple projects, with a particular focus on M&E-led construction and refurbishment schemes up to £20m. You'll work collaboratively with project, commercial and operational teams, managing the development and delivery of compliant, buildable and commercially robust design solutions from tender through to construction and handover. As a key point of contact for clients and project teams, you'll build strong collaborative relationships and help ensure projects are delivered safely, on programme, to the required quality and within commercial constraints.

What will you be responsible for?

As an M&E Senior Design Manager, you'll be working within the Building Solutions South team, supporting them in delivering successful design outcomes across a range of construction and refurbishment projects. Your day to day will include:

• Managing and coordinating the design process throughout projects, ensuring drawings, specifications and design information are produced and issued in accordance with agreed programme, scope and budget requirements
• Leading and managing internal and external design teams, including consultants, BIM/Revit teams and specialist designers, establishing clear roles and responsibilities
• Liaising closely with clients on design-related matters, building strong relationships, managing expectations and providing clear progress reporting
• Identifying, assessing and managing design risks and opportunities, ensuring CDM requirements and design safety principles are embedded within the design process
• Chairing design meetings, workshops and design reviews, clearly communicating design status, programme, risks and actions to clients and the wider project team

What are we looking for?

This role of M&E Senior Design Manager is great for you if:

• You have strong and adaptable communication skills, with demonstrable experience working effectively with multidisciplinary design teams, clients, subcontractors and the wider supply chain
• You have proven experience in a Design Management role within an MEP/building services environment, ideally within a main or Tier 1 contractor
• You possess a good technical understanding of MEP building services, including individual systems, specialist packages, interfaces and Contractor Design Portion responsibilities
• You have experience managing the design delivery of multiple projects or larger, technically complex schemes from pre-construction through to delivery
• You have an appropriate construction-related qualification and a valid CSCS card

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.