Senior Design Manager

Kier Group; Chigwell; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Design Manager to join their dynamic Construction team. This role involves managing design information delivery and ensuring compliance with standards across various sectors, including Commercial and Public Health. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in both preconstruction and construction stages, leading design meetings and collaborating with stakeholders. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence high-value projects while enjoying a range of tailored benefits. If you're passionate about design management and thrive in a collaborative environment, this role is for you.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%

Life Assurance

Enhanced Family Friendly Policies

Discounts on go-to brands

Free Health and wellbeing services

Training and development schemes

Electric Vehicle Leasing

Paid volunteering leave

Qualifications

• Experience delivering high-value, complex design work from a contractor perspective.
• Ability to organize, plan, and manage workloads effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver design information as per the design programme.
• Ensure compliance with standards and brief from design consultants.

Skills

Project Management

Design Management

Organizational Skills

Site/Contract Procedures

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Construction team based in London.

Location: London - travel to the office and site required

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Design Manager you'll be working within the Design team, supporting them on projects across a variety of different sectors including Commercial, Public Sector and Health.

Your day to day will include:

1. Management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme and deliverable schedule.
2. Ensuring that our appointed design consultants carry out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns to ensure compliance with standards and brief.
3. Design input at both preconstruction and construction stage of projects.
4. The production of design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules.
5. Attending/chairing necessary meetings and workshops with internal and external stakeholders.

What are we looking for?

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

1. Experience of delivering high value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective.
2. Ability to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads.
3. 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 team.

Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, Life Assurance, Enhanced Family Friendly Policies, Discounts on go-to brands, Free Health and wellbeing services, Training and development schemes, Electric Vehicle Leasing, Paid volunteering leave.