Aldwych Consulting Ltd
Senior Design Manager
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
The Role
You will lead design development from early concept through detailed design and into delivery, ensuring all design outputs are coordinated, buildable, and commercially aligned. Working closely with pre-construction, commercial, engineering, and delivery teams, you'll manage interfaces, drive clarity, and ensure design supports safe, efficient construction on site. This is a role for someone who can operate confidently in complex environments, balancing technical detail with programme, cost, and delivery pressures.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage multidisciplinary design teams across major infrastructure projects
- Oversee design development during pre-construction, ensuring buildability, sequencing, and logistics are fully considered
- Drive design assurance, technical governance, and compliance with standards and regulatory requirements
- Manage design interfaces between steel, reinforced concrete, timber, and other material packages
- Work closely with commercial teams to ensure design supports cost plans, procurement strategy, and risk management
- Support self-delivery teams with clear, practical design information and timely resolution of technical queries
- Coordinate temporary works, construction methodology, and engineering inputs
- Maintain structured design reviews, reporting, and documentation
- Engage with clients, stakeholders, and supply chain partners to ensure alignment and clarity
- Identify risks early and implement sensible mitigation measures to protect programme and cost
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Required Experience
- Strong background as a Design Manager or Senior Design Manager on complex or major infrastructure projects
- Proven experience in pre-construction, including design development, buildability reviews, and early-stage planning
- Solid commercial understanding, including cost drivers, procurement, and risk
- Experience working with steel, reinforced concrete, timber, and other structural materials
- Knowledge of self-delivery environments and the realities of construction execution
- Comfortable managing multidisciplinary teams and complex design interfaces
- Strong communication, coordination, and reporting capability
- Relevant qualification in civil engineering, structural engineering, or similar
Desirable
- Familiarity with digital design tools and common platforms (Aconex, BIM 360, CDEs)
- Exposure to project controls disciplines (risk, change, cost, earned value)
- Professional membership or working towards it
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
What This Role Offers
A senior position with real influence over design and delivery on major infrastructure projects. You'll work in a technically challenging environment with a contractor known for engineering capability, self-delivery strength, and high-quality execution. Strong progression opportunities and a collaborative, structured working culture.
Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Location