Senior Design Manager

Description

• Ensure design solutions align with commercial and construction requirements while adhering to budget constraints.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, standards, and codes of practice.
• Manage and coordinate design reviews and meetings to align design outputs with project objectives.
• Establish, maintain, and manage an effective project design team and resource profile during bid and delivery stages.
• Monitor design progress against the program and provide regular updates to the project team.
• Ensure appropriate and sustainable design resources, skill sets, and structures are put in place.
• Lead in managing the contractual relationship with our design partners.
• As the Design and Build Contractor’s Senior Design Manager, you will join the project at Concept stage and be responsible of managing our design partners to deliver design solutions for a complex, multi-discipline scheme in the Defence Nuclear sector.
• Management of a small team of Design Managers.
• Develop and implement design strategy and approach for projects.
• Develop and maintain fully coordinated design programs integrated with the overall project timeline.
• Oversee change control processes and ensure necessary design modifications are approved and implemented.
• Adopt a pro-active approach to managing design progress, through monitoring leading indicators and initiating corrective action where required.
• Oversee and coordinate the design process through RIBA and/or client gated process, ensuring innovation and continuous improvement.
• Ensure full compliance with design management procedures at bid and delivery stages.
• You will be the main point of contact between our design partners and our construction team, balancing the needs of both and providing direction to ensure that the overall project objectives are prioritised.
• Develop and maintain relationships with our design partners and customer stakeholders.
• Understand our design liabilities, develop appropriate strategies for managing these and take a lead on developing design subcontracts that effectively step down liabilities to appointed design partners and/or extended design and build supply chain.

Requirements

• Experience in developing and implementing design strategies and approaches for infrastructure and/or major construction projects.
• Strong negotiation and diplomacy skills with the ability to present compelling business cases to senior stakeholders.
• Excellent organisational, planning, and time management skills.
• HND, HNC or Degree in Engineering or related discipline
• Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to motivate teams.
• Membership of a recognised, relevant professional institute.
• Candidates must have the right to work in the UK and be a sole UK national.
• Ability to work collaboratively across business units and manage multiple projects without compromising standards.
• In-depth knowledge of the construction industry, design processes, and compliance requirements.
• Experience in Nuclear or similar highly regulated sector

Benefits

• Mentoring programmes and continuous learning support
• Flexible and adaptable working
• Contributory pension scheme
• Generous, incremental holiday entitlement with the option to buy five days
• Recognition scheme and long service awards
• Car scheme and Private Medical Insurance
• Annual bonus scheme

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance