Senior Design Manager

Dragados UK & Ireland; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Dragados UK & Ireland is seeking a Senior Design Manager for the West Suffolk Hospital project. You will lead design management, coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, and ensure compliance with project requirements using BIM tools and collaborative platforms.

You will manage design planning, risk, and quality across the lifecycle from concept through construction, reporting to Project and Board level, and ensuring staffing and competency across the design team.

Qualifications

• Degree or higher in engineering or a numerate discipline.
• Membership of a professional body or international equivalent.
• Extensive experience managing multi-discipline design projects from concept through construction.
• Experience on projects with similar scale and environment.
• CSCS and sentinel card.
• Commitment to innovation, integrity, trust and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Develop the design to meet project requirements: safe, buildable, operable and maintainable asset.
• Develop and implement the Design Management Plan.
• Manage multi-discipline design coordination, interface risk and clash checks.
• Ensure designers are qualified and competent.
• Package designs to support the construction programme.
• Utilise BIM and design coordination software to enhance accuracy and efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with client requirements and quality management principles.

Skills

BIM

Revit

Design management

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Revit

BIM

Collaborative platforms

Job description

Dragados UK & Ireland is proud to part of the Hospital 2.0 Alliance, a major £37bn collaboration between the New Hospital Programme. NHS Trust and industry to deliver the next wave of Hospital 2.0. The alliance represents the most significant overhaul of NHS infrastructure in decades, adopting the Hospital 2.0 model to expand capacity, modernise construction methods and strengthen long term skills development across the sector.

The Senior Design Manager will managemanage, co-ordinate, integrate and assure the design of works, meeting the Project Requirements set out in the Contracts of the client for the West Suffolk Hospital. The Senior Design Manager must coordinate and manage all members of the Design Management Organisation including supply chain, being the Accountable Person empowered to fulfil the self-certification of the Works as per the Main Contract and is responsible for implementing the Contractor’s compliance processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• To develop the design to achieve a safe, buildable, operational and maintainable asset that is compliant with Standards and meets the Project Requirements.
• To develop an approach to design driven by value that enables collaborative working and deliver the requirements of the collaboration protocol throughout the team.
• To develop and implement a Design Management Plan
• To provide Assurance to the Employer that the works have been designed in accordance with the Project Requirements and taking into consideration the constraints detailed in the Contract.
• To manage multidisciplinary design coordination, managing interface risk and clash checking.
• To ensure and demonstrate that all designers working on the project are suitably qualified and competent to carry out the design.
• Manage and coordinate the packaging of the designs to support construction programme.
• To ensure that the design supports the works and the operation through all phases of the Project.
• Comply with the client requirements and the management plans using an approach based on the Collaboration Protocol and the eight Quality Management Principles

Project Specific:

• Develop the Design Management Plan for West Suffolk Hospital
• Develop the Project MIDP
• Manage the design process utilising digital technologies such as BIM and design co-ordination software to enhance design accuracy and efficiency.
• Develop the Design Management Plan

Technical skills and Competencies:

• Proficient in both written and verbal communication and the ability to report at both Project and Board level.
• Knowledge of the relevant regulations, including:
• Health & Safety at Work Act 1974,
• Construction Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations 1996
• Construction Design and Management Regulations 2007
• Management of health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and
• Building Safety Act 2022
• People Management and
• Computer skills, including a working knowledge of BIM, Revit, and the use of collaborative platforms.

Qualifications, Certifications and Experience:

• Educated to degree or higher level or equivalent in a numerate discipline, typically Engineering discipline (or related). A lower educational level, typically HNC or HND, may be acceptable where significant level of experience in a senior technical engineering role can be demonstrated.
• Membership of an appropriate professional body, or an international equivalent professional status.
• Extensive experience in managing multi discipline and system design projects, from concept through detail and construction.
• Experience in projects encompassing similar works schemes (type, size, complexity and environment)
• Appropriate CSCS, and sentinel card.
• Excellence: Promoting innovation, development, training and continuous improvement to achieve the highest quality of project delivery.
• Integrity: Acting ethically and transparently. Demanding the best standards of integrity from its employees, suppliers and other stakeholders.
• Trust: Nurturing positive relationships at all levels of the organisation, with our clients and supply chain by developing strong and long-term relationships based on mutual trust.
• Sustainability: Commitment to sustainable development to make an efficient and ethically responsible contribution to society and the environment.
• Profitability: Ensuring our profitability as well as contributing value to the communities in which we operate as part of our sustainability agenda.

Dragados is committed to act based on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion principles. Equal opportunities, non-discrimination and respect for human rights are basic principles contained in the Dragados Code of Conduct that apply to all Dragados employees.