Design Manager

Overview

In this role you will lead design management for large-scale utility and environmental infrastructure programmes. You collaborate with project managers, commercial teams and external consultants to ensure design outputs meet programme, cost and technical standards. You will oversee early-stage design through construction readiness, manage design risks, and uphold safety, quality and technical excellence. You work across nationwide project teams, promoting digital engineering, BIM and sustainable design practices. This is an opportunity to shape design delivery and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to drive successful programme outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage multidisciplinary design activities across multiple projects
• Lead design coordination meetings and document actions and decisions
• Align design outputs with programme and cost targets with project, commercial and delivery teams
• Clarify design scope, deliverables and responsibilities across stakeholders
• Coordinate external design consultants and technical specialists
• Ensure design documentation aligns with submission programmes
• Identify design approvals and manage information flow between project teams, clients and supply chain
• Promote best practice in digital engineering, BIM, standardisation and sustainable design approaches
• Support buildability reviews, value engineering and programme development
• Monitor and report design performance including progress and cost implications
• Implement design risk management processes and control design changes
• Support implementation of design management strategies within the project team
• Ensure compliance with health, safety and environmental standards including safe design principles

Key requirements

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to interpret design programmes and construction schedules
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams
• Good commercial awareness and understanding of project delivery environments
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Knowledge of safety in design principles and relevant health and safety regulations
• Experience working within digital design environments including exposure to BIM or common data environments
• Proactive and collaborative approach to project delivery

• communication
• stakeholder management
• proactivity
• BIM
• digital design environments
• common data environments

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