Senior Design Manager

Kier Group; Landbeach; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK construction company is seeking a Senior Design Manager to oversee design management processes across various projects. This role requires significant experience in delivering high-value, complex design work from a main contractor perspective, alongside strong organizational and planning skills. The ideal candidate will ensure compliance with design standards while collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to drive projects forward. This position brings various benefits tailored to individual needs.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme.
• Ensuring compliance with standards from design consultants.
• Production of design programmes and attending necessary meetings.

Skills

Management and delivery of design information

Organizing and planning workloads

Experience with high-value complex design work

Job description

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.

• 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?

• 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

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.

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