Overview
As Design Manager, you will steer the design process from early planning through delivery, ensuring compliant, cost-effective, and well-coordinated designs. You will work within a London-based construction team on education and complex projects, driving digital construction and sustainability requirements. You’ll lead collaboration with subcontractors and consultants to deliver high-quality design information and value engineering opportunities. This role offers impact through shaping design solutions and improving buildability at scale within a leading contractor. A strong emphasis on multidisciplinary coordination, digital tools, and proactive stakeholder engagement provides a meaningful,-
Pay / Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Company car or car allowance
- 8% matched pension contributions
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- 26 days’ annual leave
Responsibilities
- Manage the design process from pre-construction to project delivery, ensuring technical compliance and coordination
- Lead digital construction and sustainability requirements across projects
- Coordinate with subcontractors, consultants and wider design teams to produce high-quality design information
- Produce, review, and approve technical drawings and information
- Chair client engagement meetings, design workshops, and coordination sessions
- Identify opportunities to add value and improve buildability within complex design packages
- Demonstrate strong technical understanding across architecture, structural engineering, and MEP
- Develop and manage the design programme with project stakeholders
- Prepare regular progress reports and manage consultant scopes of service and design responsibility matrices
- Lead value engineering efforts and drive improvements through digital tools
Key requirements
- Proven Design Management experience in the construction industry
- Experience on education, public sector or similarly complex projects (advantageous)
- Collaborative, proactive, solutions-focused mindset
- Ability to work in multidisciplinary settings and make informed decisions
- Strong desire to learn and share knowledge
- Good understanding of design and construction interfaces
- Experience with BIM processes; Revit and AutoCAD preferred
- Interest in driving digital construction improvements
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Experience reviewing designs for completeness and buildability
- Experience developing consultant scopes of service and design matrices
- Ability to identify and develop value engineering proposals
- collaborative
- proactive
- solutions-focused
- BIM processes
- Revit
- AutoCAD
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