Senior Design Manager

Overview

In this senior role, you lead the design management for large London projects with a Tier 1 contractor, guiding the design process from tender through handover. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage design programs and interfaces, and drive buildability and value engineering. The role focuses on complex building services across offices, healthcare, data centres, and refurbishment schemes, enabling delivery on time, to quality, and within cost. You will work closely with clients and supply-chain partners to shape robust, buildable solutions.

Pay / Benefits

• bonus
• salary package

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multidisciplinary design teams and external consultants
• Develop and manage the Project Design Management Plan
• Coordinate design programmes, Employers’ Requirements and design deliverables
• Manage architectural, structural, civil and MEP design interfaces
• Ensure design information meets programme, cost, quality, contractual and buildability requirements
• Chair design reviews and drive resolution of technical and coordination issues
• Lead buildability, value engineering and design-risk reviews
• Manage BIM and information requirements throughout the project lifecycle
• Collaborate with commercial, planning, construction and other teams
• Maintain strong relationships with clients, consultants and key supply-chain partners

Key requirements

• Significant experience as a Senior and/or Design Manager with a Main contractor
• Experience delivering major construction projects in the 50m–200m+ range
• Strong experience across tender, PCSA, pre-construction and construction delivery
• Strong technical knowledge across building, structural, civil and MEP design
• Understanding of planning, Building Regulations and building-control processes
• Knowledge of D&B, JCT and NEC3/NEC4 forms of contract
• An architectural, engineering professional qualification

• Stakeholder management
• Leadership and people management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Design management
• BIM and information management
• Design coordination across architectural, structural, civil and MEP disciplines

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