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Location: Tidworth/Swindon
Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive + Car Allowance / Company Car + Benefits Package
About The Company
They are a family-owned, award-winning main contractor with a 125-year heritage built on prompt payment, quality delivery, and relational working. Operating across the South of England, they build with ambition and care across various sectors including education, healthcare, commercial, heritage, and community projects.
They believe that great construction starts with exceptional planning and design coordination. We are looking for an experienced and proactive Design Manager to join the Swindon team and drive project success from pre-construction through to site completion.
The Role
As a Design Manager, you will be the core link between clients, external design teams, supply chain, and project delivery managers. You will take ownership of the design process, ensuring all schemes are buildable, cost-effective, compliant with statutory requirements, and delivered on schedule.
The scheme is a GBP15 million project at Tidworth and is currently in a PCSA.
Key Responsibilities
- Pre-Construction and Tendering: Review employers requirements, assess design risks, propose value engineering solutions, and assist with technical submissions during tenders.
- Design Coordination: Lead and manage external design consultants, ensuring their deliverables align with the project scope, budget, and procurement program.
- Site Delivery and Compliance: Work closely with the site project manager and package subcontractors to resolve design queries (RFIs), monitor buildability, and ensure compliance with Building Regulations, Planning Conditions, and BREEAM/sustainability targets.
- Information Release Management: Maintain and manage the Design Release Program (DRP) to keep procurement and construction on track.
- Design Reviews: Chair regular design team meetings, coordinate BIM models (where applicable), and resolve clashes prior to site execution.
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About You
They are looking for someone who combines technical expertise with outstanding communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
Essential Requirements
- Proven experience as a Design Manager or Senior Design Coordinator within a UK regional main contractor (or an architectural/engineering background looking to step into contractor-side design management).
- Strong knowledge of current UK Building Regulations, Planning Frameworks, and Building Safety legislation.
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary projects across commercial, healthcare, or education sectors (values typically GBP2m to GBP25m+).
- Excellent leadership and conflict-resolution skills to keep external consultant teams accountable and motivated.
- HNC/HND or Degree qualified in a relevant discipline (Construction Management, Architecture, Civil Engineering, or similar).
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What They Offer
- Competitive Salary reflecting your experience.
- Company Car or Allowance with EV/Hybrid options.
- Generous Pension Scheme and Private Healthcare.
- Professional Development: Supported chartership paths (CIOB, RIBA, ICE) and continuous learning opportunities.
- Work-Life Balance: A supportive culture built on their core values of honesty, fairness, and excellence.
They are looking for either experienced Design Managers who want the opportunity to get involved in the full life cycle of a development and actually have your voice heard and ideas taken seriously or ambitious Design Co-ordinators ready to take the step up and with the implementation of the building safety act if you are chartered then that would be an advantage - if not they are happy to help with the external training to get you there.
They offer a competitive salary, car allowance and annual bonus and it's a great place to work with energetic leadership teams wanting to make a real difference.
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