Senior Design Manager - Architect - MoDefence - Manchester

Lechley Associates; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A consultancy specializing in design management seeks a Senior Design Manager to oversee a portfolio of Ministry of Defence projects in Manchester. The successful candidate will lead pre-construction phase design processes, ensuring technical excellence and effective team collaboration. Applicants should have a degree in Architecture or Engineering and approximately ten years of experience in design management, including international exposure.

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of experience in design management.
• Experience managing design on construction or building services projects.
• Possess sector specialism with international experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the pre-construction phase briefing and design processes.
• Ensure regular progress reporting of the design.
• Implement processes for production and distribution of design information.

Skills

Design management

Leadership

Design optimisation

Architecture or Engineering background

Construction-related experience

Education

First degree in Architecture or Engineering

Other construction-related qualifications

Job description

The Opportunity

An opportunity exists for a Senior Design Manager to join the team on a portfolio of Ministry of Defence projects in the Manchester area. A Senior Design Manager leads the delivery of effective design across multiple projects or a single large-scale project. They focus on and lead the pre-construction phase design processes, liaising with the client, the design team, the in-house bid team and the operations team. On live projects, they implement and lead the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework to allow risks to be reduced.

The Senior Design Manager is a senior Design Job Family and Technical Function member, which ensures technical excellence, assurance, and performance across all projects and opportunities, from pre-project, early engagement, and work winning to detailed delivery. All designers are part of the Engineering Enterprise, which aims to maximise and realise the potential of design to increase project certainty.

Role Responsibilities

• Providing a focus for and leading the pre-construction phase briefing and design processes
• Leading design management procedures, providing a functional link between the commercial and construction teams and the designers throughout the project life
• Implementing processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework
• Implementing agreed processes for the production, control and distribution of design information at different project stages
• Ensuring regular progress reporting of the design
• Ensuring design information is thoroughly reviewed for buildability, safety and maintainability, 'completeness & compliance' and technical suitability before use
• Assisting the Design Leader in promoting innovation in design management, methodology, processes and practices
• Assisting the Design Leader in promoting the application and adoption of the company's vision and values in all design management activities

Technical Capabilities

• Creating and owning the design brief
• Design optimisation
• Design for Manufacture and Assembly
• Managing consultancies
• Information and Change Control
• Design compliance

Required Skills & Experience

• First degree in Architecture or Engineering discipline. Other appropriate construction-related qualifications plus design-related experience
• Approximately ten years experience
• Sector specialism as well as deep and broad experience managing the design of design – construction or building services projects
• Likely to have international experience

Do you only match some of the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.