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Senior Design Consultant

Location: London, UK
Salary: Competitive
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time

What You Will Do

• Provide a professional security strategy design service to clients on projects
• Lead security design input on commercial developments, with particular focus on financial institutions, cash centres, and other high-security occupier environments
• Act as project manager for assigned projects, ensuring scope, programme, quality and budget are controlled throughput delivery
• Take ownership of project commercial performance, including budget management, forecasting, actuals tracking, and identifying variances early.
• Lead and manage junior staff and project teams directly, including delegation, review, mentoring, and performance support where required.
• Work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary design teams, coordinating with architects, MEP, fire, and specialist consultants.
• Communicate directly with clients, lead meetings, present design proposals and represent the business in technical and commercial discussions.
• Prepare technical and financial proposals for new work where necessary.

Develop concept and preliminary security strategies through to detailed design

• Set up and manage job/project administrative systems, including planning and monitoring job resourcing/expenditure (adjusting these as necessary)
• Ensure the senior management team are kept informed of important and relevant service/design decisions and the objectives of the client and the company are achieved.
• Represent the Company at meetings with the client, other professionals and suppliers.
• Continually ensuring that practices, policies, strategy and services represent the client’s and the Company’s best interests and that Company policy is in keeping with current legislation, Standards and Codes of Practice etc.
• Check the scope of professional services agreed with the client for continued presence of the design team members as members of the project team.
• Convene and chair site progress meetings or attend progress meetings chaired by the contractor. Keep accurate minutes of meetings, and record discussions, progress statements and decisions.
• Carry out site inspections and progress checks, recording observations and tracking contractor performance.
• Produce accurate estimates of costs arising from contract administrator’s instructions, including variations.
• Check expenditure against the job cost allocation for all design stages and monitor fee income against budget