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Design Manager - Eastern North Team
Location: Waterbeach, Cambridge
Hours: Full Time, permanent
Our Cambridgeshire regional business has an exceptional track record in the delivery of projects across DfE, Healthcare, MOD, MOJ, Leisure, Higher Education, and Heritage. As our Design Manager, you'll lead as the subject matter expert on assigned projects, with the opportunity to shape design management across our exciting pipeline of work.
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Design Manager, you'll be working within the Head of Design Team, supporting them in delivering exceptional design outcomes across our diverse project portfolio. Your day-to-day will include:
- Managing and delivering design information in accordance with agreed programmes and schedules
- Ensuring appointed design consultants comply with standards and briefs, while mitigating design-related risks
- Leading design input at both preconstruction and construction stages of projects
- Chairing design meetings, producing reports and presentations for internal and external stakeholders
- Creating design programmes, scopes, responsibility matrices and ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation and sustainable building standards
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What are we looking for?
This role of Design Manager is great for you if:
- You have demonstrable experience in a design role within a main contractor environment
- You hold a relevant construction qualification (Degree/HND or equivalent) in Architecture, Construction Management, Engineering or similar
- You have experience of BIM level 2 projects, including COBie data
- You possess excellent attention to detail and strong stakeholder management capabilities
- You hold a Full driving licence
Rewards And Benefits
We'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 on benefits here.
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Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier'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 D&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.
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.
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