Job Details

Design Manager

Job Description

We have a fantastic Design Manager- opportunity in our Eastern South Construction team

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Location: Witham, Essex

Hours: Full Time, Permanent

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We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

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What will you be responsible for?

As Design Manager you will be exposed to a wide range of projects across Education, Healthcare, MOD and MOJ sectors with project values ranging from from -20m - -80m-

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Your day to day will include:

  • Management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme and deliverable schedule
  • Ensuring that our appointed design consultants carry out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns to ensure compliance with standards and brief
  • Design input at both-preconstruction-and construction stage of projects
  • Assessing, mitigating and managing risks connected with design, ensuring designs meet health and safety legislation, sustainable building standards such as BREEAM and industry codes of practice
  • The production of-design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules
  • Record progress and carry out upline reporting
  • Attending/chair necessary meetings and workshops with internal and external stakeholders
  • Ensuring-that the design is compliant to relevant legislation and technical requirements

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What are we looking for?

This role of Design Manager is great for you if you have:

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  • Demonstrable -experience in a design role within a main contractor environment or architectural practice involved in large scale construction projects
  • Relevant construction qualification (Degree / HND or equivalent) Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture etc
  • Experience of BIM level 2 projects

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Rewards and benefits
Weand#39;re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

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Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. Weand#39;re proud of the steps weand#39;ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kierand#39;s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our Dandamp;I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

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We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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