Design Coordinator

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

Job summary

Red Chair Recruitment is supporting a leading Irish modular construction client to appoint a Design Co-ordinator for their Meath/Greater Dublin region. The role is permanent and office-based, with easy commuting from North Dublin, Meath and Louth.

You will manage the flow of technical and design information from pre-construction through to project close-out, coordinating with external architects, engineers and the in-house draughtsperson on live projects.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating external consultants (architects/engineers) and tracking inputs.
• Experience operating within a structured document-control process.
• Familiarity with the BCAR process and certifier role.
• Experience compiling project safety files.
• Hold a full clean driving license.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate LOI and technical submittals with architects, engineers and sub-contractors.
• Collate and issue design information at design start.
• Coordinate fire safety certification and civils inputs.
• Liaise with consultants and external design team.
• Manage document flow between designers, consultants, sub-contractors and site teams.
• Schedule works with consultants and track delivery against programme.
• Monitor consultant progress via weekly meetings.
• Coordinate with in-house draughtsperson on live projects.
• Ensure design information is issued to subcontractors and site teams.
• Collect technical submittals from subcontractors.
• Act as day-to-day contact for external architects, engineers and consultants.
• Prepare BCAR closing files and certs.
• Prepare the project safety file.

Skills

External consultants coordination

Document-control process

BCAR knowledge

Safety file compilation

Driving license

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.