Lead Designer

Overview

Lead design of construction projects, overseeing design, coordination, procurement, and team.

Key Responsibilities

• design updates
• design reviews
• procurement scheduling
• model efficiency
• site visits
• client coordination

Tasks

-Maintain commercial awareness of how design packages are being developed in coordination with Commercial Department. -Organise purposeful site visits for yourself and junior designers to strengthen design-to-site integration. -Ensure design deliverables, procurement schedules, and variation trackers are updated weekly. -Ensure design deliverables are live, up-to-date, and revised as scope or client requirements change. -Lead internal design reviews and ensure quality assurance before submission to clients or upload to CDE. -Work closely with the buying team to ensure material schedules are accurate and user-friendly. -Extract procurement dates and package requirements from design programmes. -Direct and support the design team and external consultants, setting weekly tasks and targets. -Maintain clear, consistent communication with site teams and provide design support during installation stages. -Liaise regularly with the planning, buying, operations, and commercial teams to ensure alignment on scope, procurement, and budgets. -Peer review junior team members’ work and promote quality excellence across deliverables. -Monitor project spend and time allocation. -Monitor design progress against programme and procurement schedules, highlighting risks or delays. -Drive efficiency in model/drawing outputs to streamline procurement and reduce errors. -Lead the design set-up process at the start of each project, including drafting the TIDP (Task Information Delivery Plan) and design deliverables. -Attend pre-construction handover meetings. -Maintain regular communication with the commercial team to ensure alignment with budgets. -Chair internal design team meetings and attend external client design coordination meetings. -Actively manage design changes, ensuring registers and commercial leads are kept updated. -Provide solutions to design challenges, compile and respond to RFIs, and maintain compliance with building regulations and industry standards.

Requirements

• leadership
• project management
• commercial
• design management
• design lead
• team management

What You Bring

We are seeking a Lead Designer within our growing Design Team. This role will be central to the success of our projects, leading design activities from tender submission through to project close-out. The Design Lead will act as the main point of coordination between design, commercial, procurement, and operations teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong technical knowledge, commercial awareness, and the ability to manage both people and processes effectively. -Excellent organisational, leadership, and communication skills. -Proficiency in project management tools. -Strong commercial awareness and ability to support procurement and cost control. -Strong understanding of design management processes, building regulations, and technical standards. -Familiarise with project scope, available drawings, design intent, and construction programmes. -Proven experience as a Design Lead / Senior Designer within the construction industry. -Experience managing multidisciplinary design teams and coordinating with external consultants.

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