Senior Design Manager

Kier Group; Woking; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking a Senior Design Manager to join our Thames Water Capital Frameworks team in Hogsmill, Surrey. You will lead design teams through concept and detailed design phases, ensuring schemes meet regulatory commitments and client objectives.

You will manage design programmes, conduct technical reviews, and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver cost-effective, right-first-time solutions for water and wastewater projects.

Qualifications

• Requires a degree-qualified engineer with strong people and project management capabilities.
• Chartered status is preferred.
• Experience managing consultants and contractors’ designers; BIM understanding is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead and performance manage design teams to deliver on time, cost, quality and safety standards.
• Manage design programmes and coordinate with partners to meet milestones.
• Conduct technical design reviews and implement QA procedures for right-first-time outcomes.
• Communicate technical solutions clearly to clients and stakeholders, building trust with timely information.
• Identify value engineering opportunities and drive innovative, cost-effective solutions.

Skills

People management

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Engineering degree

Chartered engineer

Tools

BIM

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Thames Water Capital Frameworks team based in Hogsmill, Surrey.

Location: Hogsmill, Surrey

Hours: 45 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

As a Senior Design Manager, you’ll play a key role in delivering technically compliant, cost-effective, and environmentally considerate solutions for water infrastructure projects. Working as part of our Thames Water Capital Frameworks partnership, you’ll guide design teams through concept and detailed design phases, ensuring schemes meet regulatory commitments and client objectives. This is an opportunity to make a real impact on essential infrastructure while working collaboratively with clients, partners, and multidisciplinary teams.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Design Manager, you’ll be working within the Thames Water Capital Frameworks Team, supporting them in delivering design and build services for water and wastewater infrastructure. Your day to day will include

• Leading and performance managing design teams, ensuring delivery on time, cost, quality, and safety standards
• Managing design programmes and coordinating with partners to ensure deliverables meet project milestones
• Conducting technical design reviews and implementing quality assurance procedures to achieve right-first-time outcomes
• Communicating technical solutions clearly to clients and stakeholders, building trust through timely and accurate information
• Identifying value engineering opportunities and driving innovation to deliver cost-effective, outcome-based solutions

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if:

• You hold a Full driving licence
• You have significant experience in the water or wastewater industry, with a strong background in design management
• You’re a degree-qualified engineer, ideally chartered, with proven people and project management capabilities
• You have demonstrable experience managing consultants and contractors’ designers, with an understanding of BIM
• You understand how technical disciplines interact and can foster collaboration across multidisciplinary teams

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.