Overview
As a Design Manager, you will lead design management and coordination for civil engineering packages on a major, technically complex West London project. You’ll work within a collaborative delivery team to align multidisciplinary packages with construction delivery, schedules, and regulatory requirements. You drive buildable, compliant solutions and manage external design consultants and internal teams to maintain design programmes and milestones. This is a high-impact role shaping how civil works integrate with structural, architectural and MEP disciplines, using BIM/CDE to control design information. You join a well-established contractor with a strong project pipeline and clear career-adv
Pay / Benefits
- salary up to £75,000
- car allowance £4,700
- permanent position
- strong career development and progression
- collaborative working environment
- opportunity on major project
Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate the design process from design development through to construction delivery
- Oversee civil engineering design packages and coordinate with structural, architectural and MEP disciplines
- Lead external design consultants, specialist subcontractors and internal project teams
- Develop and maintain design programmes with key deliverables and milestones
- Lead design coordination meetings, technical reviews and design workshops
- Manage design information, submissions and approvals through BIM and CDE systems
- Ensure designs comply with regulations, CDM requirements and project specifications
- Collaborate with commercial and operational teams to identify value engineering opportunities and resolve technical challenges
- Identify and manage design risks, issues and programme constraints
- Ensure design solutions are practical, buildable and aligned with project requirements
Key requirements
- Previous Design Manager or Senior Design Manager experience in a main contracting environment
- Strong experience managing civil engineering and infrastructure design packages
- Proven track record on large-scale, technically complex construction projects
- Excellent understanding of design coordination, buildability and construction methodologies
- Experience managing multidisciplinary design teams, consultants and subcontractors
- Strong knowledge of design programmes, technical approvals and project documentation
- Good understanding of CDM regulations and construction health and safety requirements
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and organisational skills
- communication
- stakeholder management
- organisational skills
- BIM
- Common Data Environment (CDE) systems
- design programmes
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