Design Coordinator

Red Chair Recruitment; Drogheda; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Chair Recruitment is helping a leading Irish modular construction company in Meath recruit a Design Co-ordinator to manage design information flow from pre-construction to close-out. The role is permanent and full-time, based in the office with good access from North Dublin, Meath and Louth.

You will coordinate external consultants, maintain document control, BCAR processes and safety files, and act as the day-to-day contact for architects, engineers, and specialists.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating external architects, engineers or consultants.
• Familiarity with structured document-control processes.
• Knowledge of BCAR requirements and certifier roles is preferred.
• Experience compiling and managing project safety files is preferred.

Responsibilities

• LOI submittals: gather pre-contract docs for Letter of Intent.
• Technical submittals: collect and issue design info at design start.
• Design coordination: coordinate fire safety, civils, and inputs from external design team.
• Coordinate with consultants and manage documents between designers, sub-contractors and site teams.
• Schedule works with consultants and track delivery against programme.
• Monitor consultant progress via weekly meetings and follow-ups.
• Coordinate with in-house draughtsperson on live projects.
• Ensure design information is issued to sub-contractors and site teams.
• Collect technical submittals back from sub-contractors.
• Act as day-to-day contact for external architects, engineers and specialist consultants.
• Prepare BCAR closing files, certs, and issuance to certifier.
• Prepare the project safety file following collection and issue process.

Skills

External consultant coordination

Document control

BCAR familiarity

Project coordination

Job description

Our client, a leading Irish modular construction company for commercial and residential applications, is looking for a Design Co-ordinator to join their team in County Meath. You will manage the flow of technical and design information across multiple projects, from pre-construction through to project close-out. This is a permanent, full-time position, based in office and within easy commute of North Dublin, Meath and Louth.

Key responsibilities:

• LOI submittals — gathering the suite of pre-contract documents required at Letter of Intent stage.
• Technical submittals — collecting and issuing technical information (construction details, test reports, materials data) at the start of the design process.
• Design coordination — coordinating fire safety certification, civils design, and related inputs from our external design team.
• Coordinating with consultants.
• Managing document flow between designers, consultants, sub-contractors and site teams.
• Scheduling works with consultants and tracking delivery against programme.
• Monitoring consultant progress via weekly meetings and follow-ups as needed.
• Coordinating with in-house draughtsperson on live projects.
• Ensuring design information is issued to sub-contractors and site teams.
• Collecting technical submittals back from sub-contractors.
• Acting as the day-to-day point of contact for external architects, engineers and specialist consultants.
• Preparing BCAR closing files — creating files and certs, collecting certs from sub-contractors and consultants, and issuing to the assigned certifier.
• Preparing the project safety file, following the same collection and issue process.

Requirements:

• Experience co-ordinating external consultants - chasing, tracking and progressing inputs from architects, engineers or specialist consultants (rather than producing design output directly)
• Experience operating within a structured document-control process
• Familiarity with the BCAR process and the assigned certifier role is strongly preferred
• Experience compiling project safety files is strongly preferred
• Full clean driving license

Salary on offer is €50-55,000.