Senior Design Manager

Kier Construction; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company is seeking a Senior Design Manager to join their Midlands team, focusing on managing the design processes for high value projects. The successful candidate will coordinate with external designers and ensure adherence to quality standards, while also driving innovation. This full-time, permanent role offers a great opportunity for an experienced individual looking to impact the construction industry significantly.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering high value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective.
• Understanding of Building Regulations and Planning Permission procedures.
• Experience of site/contract procedures would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Manage the design process during the pre-construction and construction phases.
• Interrogation of enquiry documents to ensure compliance.
• Drive innovative and cost-effective solutions into the design.

Skills

Organization

Planning

Management

Job description

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We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Midlands construction team based in Solihull.

Location: Solihull, West Midlands

Contract: Full time, Permanent

What will you be responsible for?

The Senior Design Manager will be key in coordinating, interrogating, and integrating the activities of our external design consultants to ensure that all is managed to programme timescales and quality standards.

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Manage the design process during the pre-construction and as required, the construction phase.
• Interrogation of enquiry documents, in the form of an Employer's Requirements.
• Production of a Contractor's Proposal document in liaison with other internal departments.
• Drive innovative and cost effective solutions into the design.
• Progress design issues within a strict timescale & ensure designers meet information delivery dates.
  
  

What are we looking for?

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

• Experience of delivering high value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective.
• Ability to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads.
• Understanding of Building Regulations and Planning Permission procedures.
• Understanding of DFE projects
• Experience of site/contract procedures would be an advantage
  
  

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Construction

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