Senior Design Manager

Kier Group; King's Newton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in the UK is seeking a Senior Design Manager for its Regional Construction business based in Castle Donington. The role involves managing and delivering design information for projects valued up to £80m across various sectors such as Education and Health. Candidates should have experience in high-value design work from the main contractor perspective. Strong organizational skills and a background in site procedures are advantageous. This role promotes diversity and inclusion, welcoming applicants with various skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver design information per the design programme.
• Ensure design consultants comply with their appointment standards.
• Provide design input at both preconstruction and construction stages.
• Create design programmes, scopes, responsibility matrices, and schedules.
• Attend and chair meetings with stakeholders.

Skills

Experience of delivering high value, complex design work

Ability to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads

Experience of site / contract procedures

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Regional Construction business based in Castle Donington, East Midlands. Projects you can expect to work on range in value up to £80m across sectors including Education, Health, Research and Commercial.

Location

Castle Donington, East Midlands

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

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Design Manager you'll be working within the Construction team, across projects in both Pre Construction and live on site.

Your day to day will include:

• Management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme and deliverable schedule
• Ensuring that our appointed design consultants carry out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns to ensure compliance with standards and brief
• Design input at both preconstruction and construction stage of projects
• The production of design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules
• Attending / chair 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:

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

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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