Senior Design Manager

As the Senior Design Manager, you will need to work collaboratively with customers and industry specialists to ensure that the design develops in accordance with the brief with a firm focus on added value, compliance, commercial viability, and best practice.

Client Details

My client are a large construction, development and property services company based across the UK, but for this role based in Berkshire.

Description

The key responsibilities as the Senior Design Manager are:

• Review the current design of all projects and undertake detailed risk and opportunities appraisal to mitigating risk, enhance buildability and add value prior to construction phase

• In collaboration with the project team, Lead Designer and Consultant Team, produce and manage a realistic design programme and information required schedule, to satisfy design, procurement, and construction requirements.

• Work closely with the Commercial and Operations Teams to ensure all design deliverables are fully coordinated, buildable and within budget. Contribute to technical workshops, value management exercises as required to align expectations in this respect

Profile

The successful Senior Design Manager will need to be passionate about design, working within a team environment and with proven technical skills looking for an opportunity to challenge and bring fresh new ideas and elevate yourself within the industry then join us and help to create tomorrow together.

You will need to be able to travel to Berkshire on a regular basis, have access to a car / be able to drive and also need to have worked on high profile, technically complex projects across multiple sectors. Ideally having worked with large contractors in the past too.

Also, you will be expected to be able to have sign-off responsibility on Health & Safety for projects too.

Job Offer

The successful Senior Design Manager will receive:

• Competitive salary & profit share scheme

• Flexible working

• Car Allowance / Company Car

• Travel covered to sites

• Extensive corporate benefits

• Excellent range of learning and development activity to support career progression

• Industry leading family leave benefits