Design Manager

I am currently working on behalf of a Tier 2 Construction contractor who are looking to recruit a permanent Design Manager to join their team.

The company are a national brand with an excellent reputation in their chosen marketplace and have excellent long term relationships with clients, subcontractors and the wider supply chain and have a forward thinking approach to staff engagement and there are opportunities to grow and develop your career with them.

The regional office is based near Buckinghamshire but the geographical area covers the M4 Corridor between Oxford and Warwickshire.

Project wise, they target work in the education, public sector, leisure and commercial marketplaces with a mix of negotiated and framework opportunities.

Turnover for 2024 has been secured and 2025/6 is almost there so they are now in a position to be highly selective about what type of work they look at.

The role of design Manager includes early involvement at tender and bid stage, working with the estimating and commercial teams to carry out a detailed and forensic investigation into the scheme and work on the key packages to explore and identify both opportunities and potential issues with critical pathways, carry out ve exercises where needed and use your skills and expertise to create detailed input for the tender and bid packages.

You will be responsible for the information flow between client, consultants, subcontractors and your own internal teams and take the lead on the framework schemes.

You will be responsible for taking the scheme from tender, bid including full detailed 2nd stage works, contract award and finally onto site for the construction phase.

You will be responsible for management and implementation of the design on site with the project manager and site delivery teams and subcontractors and take responsibility for managing rfi's, change process, cdm regulations etc. through to handover, commissioning.

You will ideally have worked for a tier 2 or larger regional contractor on schemes up to the value of £10 million and have experience of both D&B projects and framework negotiations, be able to demonstrate excellent work practices, attention to detail, organisational skills as well as the ability to identify opportunities and potential issues.

Salaries are negotiable subject to experience - please get in touch with Heather Duncan for more information