Senior Design Manager

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Managing and coordinating the delivery of design information in line with the agreed design programme and project deliverables.


• Overseeing appointed design consultants to ensure they fulfil their contractual responsibilities, reviewing and challenging design submissions to confirm compliance with relevant standards, specifications and the project brief.


• Providing design management and technical input throughout both the pre-construction and construction phases of projects.


• Developing and maintaining design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, consultant appointments and associated schedules.


• Organising, attending and chairing relevant design meetings, workshops and coordination sessions with both internal teams and external stakeholders.

What are we looking for?

• A minimum of 8 years' experience working as a Design Manager for a Tier 1 UK contractor.


• A degree in a construction-related discipline.


• Professional chartership, such as MCIOB, MICE or an equivalent qualification.


• Proven experience delivering healthcare projects.


• Experience managing the design and delivery of medium to large-scale construction projects.


• Strong experience delivering civils, substructure and superstructure structural design packages, together with experience managing façade design packages, including unitised and off-site systems