Senior Design Manager

TN United Kingdom; Northampton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking Senior Design Managers to join their Strategic Projects team. In this pivotal role, you will manage the delivery of design information across various sectors, ensuring compliance with standards and schedules. Your expertise in high-value design work will be essential as you support a dynamic team in delivering major projects. Flexible working options are available to promote a work-life balance. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to impactful projects while fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Join a forward-thinking company that values potential and transferable skills.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex design work from a contractor perspective.
• Ability to manage workloads and plan effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver design information per schedule.
• Ensure design consultants comply with standards and brief.

Skills

Management of design information

Organisational skills

Planning and programming

Site/contract procedures

Job description

We're looking for a number of Senior Design Managers to join our Strategic Projects business at Kier. We deliver major projects across the Custodial, Life Science, Defence, and Healthcare sectors.

Location: Rushden is our Head office base. Projects are located across the Home Counties and Midlands.

Hours: Full time, permanent. Flexible working options are available.

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:

• 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/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 you have:

• 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 transferable 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.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-AS2