Senior Design Manager

Kier Group plc; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company is seeking a Senior Design Manager to join their Midlands team in Solihull. This role involves coordinating design activities for a large-scale Education project, requiring strong organizational and planning skills, along with experience in managing complex design processes and understanding of regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering high-value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective.
• Ability to manage workloads effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage the design process during pre-construction and construction phases.
• Drive innovative and cost-effective solutions into the design.
• Ensure designers meet information delivery dates.

Skills

Organisational skills

Planning

Programming

Understanding of Building Regulations

Understanding of DFE projects

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Midlands team based in Solihull. You will initially work on a large-scale Education project.

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:

1. Manage the design process during the pre-construction and, as required, the construction phase.
2. Interrogate enquiry documents, in the form of an Employer's Requirements.
3. Produce a Contractor's Proposal document in liaison with other internal departments.
4. Drive innovative and cost-effective solutions into the design.
5. 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 ideal if you have:

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

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

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. More information about benefits can be found 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.

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