Senior Design Manager

Your new company
One of the UK's leading contractors operating across a number of sectors including Infrastructure and Build
Your new role
They are now looking for a Senior Design Manager to oversee the design aspects of tenders and ongoing projects. This position is primarily project and office-based, with flexibility for occasional remote working.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Establish, maintain, and manage effective project design resources and team profiles at bid and delivery stages.
• Lead and provide a professional, comprehensive, and sustainable design service for customers, key partners, and suppliers at bid and delivery stages.
• Safely manage and coordinate the overall design process through the RIBA design stages, challenging the brief and bringing innovation and continuous improvement to projects at bid and delivery stages.
• Ensure completion and compliance with design management departmental procedures at bid and delivery stages.
• Be involved with the design strategy and approach.
• Ensure adherence to the design brief/scope of service and develop a comprehensive scope of service for key stages of the project.
• Programme and manage all design reviews and coordination meetings.
• Ensure a fully coordinated design strategy is in place and work closely with discipline lead designers to deliver coordinated design solutions.
• Establish the need for and contribute to design reviews.
• Ensure that design is developed in line with commercial and construction requirements and the cost plan budget allowances.

What you'll need to succeed
Previous experience working for main contractors with sector experience across Education, Healthcare and Life Sciences.

What you need to do now


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