Senior Design Manager

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

Job summary

Join Kier Group as a Senior Design Manager to lead a £100m defence project in Essex. You'll be responsible for coordinating design efforts, ensuring quality standards, and managing complex design processes. Candidates should have significant experience in high-value projects and the ability to work under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Manage the design process during the pre-construction phase through to on-site delivery.
• Interrogate enquiry documents, in the form of an Employer's Requirements.
• Drive innovative and cost effective solutions into the design.

Skills

Project Management

Design Coordination

Problem Solving

Job description

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We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Eastern South Construction team on a large £100m plus defence project in Suffolk.

Location: Essex office, Suffolk site

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

• Manage the design process during the pre-construction phase through to on site delivery.
• Interrogation of enquiry documents, in the form of an Employer's Requirements.
• Production of a Contractor's Proposal document in liaison with other internal departments.
• Drive innovative and cost effective solutions into the design.
• 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 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
• Understanding of Building Regulations and Planning Permission procedures
• 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.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Construction

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