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Design Manager

Ipswich
£55k – £65k/yr
Posted 1 day ago
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About the Company

Your new company has around 60 years of experience in Building Services. They mainly work in the East Anglia region and London, having a noticeable track record of delivering mechanical and electrical projects up to £10M. They have a wide range of businesses and clients, being experts in the sectors of education, commercial, healthcare, leisure, industrial, residential high end and heritage sectors.

Your New Role

Your new role will be as a Design Manager, ideally with education, commercial, healthcare, leisure, industrial, heritage and or residential background. You will be responsible for the design team, working on drawing on the mechanical and electrical side within building services, you will get trained if needed on the estimating side and tender agreements.

Effectively manage staff performance on the project by ensuring they have clear roles and responsibilities and always promoting Health & Safety.

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Requirements

To succeed you will need to be a qualified Design Manager, with experience of working on M&E projects and ideally have had responsibility for full work and working on projects with £10 M value. You can come from a consultancy or contract background.

Effective communicator at all levels to develop and maintain good working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders as well as share best practice and promote innovation

Benefits

You will be working for a major contractor in East Anglia with around 60 years of experience in the market, which will create a great impact on your CV and career. You will have the opportunity of a career progression, to be in contact with different sectors and working with great professionals. You will be offered a salary based on your experience + car allowance, private healthcare, Life assurance, 31 days of holidays and pension.

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Skills

Design Management
Mechanical and Electrical Design
Building Services
Staff Management
Health & Safety
Estimating
Tender Agreements
Stakeholder Management
Project Management
M&E Projects

Location

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

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