Senior Design Manager - Healthcare

About the role

Job Title
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Senior Design Manager

Location: Birmingham

Company: Balfour Beatty

Project: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Shape the future of a major healthcare environment

Balfour Beatty is looking for an experienced and confident Senior Design Manager to join our team in Birmingham, based at Trinity Park and supporting works at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

You will join the team supporting the ongoing improvement and development of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham estate—one of the UK’s largest and most complex operational healthcare environments.

This is an excellent opportunity to take a leading role on a technically demanding healthcare project, working alongside customers, consultants, specialist designers and construction teams to develop coordinated, buildable and commercially effective design solutions.

You will manage the design process from briefing through to delivery, ensuring proposals meet the project’s technical, programme, quality and budget requirements

As Senior Design Manager, you will:

• Lead the development and implementation of the project design strategy.
• Manage the design process, including architectural, structural and M&E elements.
• Coordinate internal teams, consultants, specialist subcontractors and third-party design partners.
• Ensure design proposals meet customer requirements, specifications and budget constraints.
• Review designs for buildability, sequencing, value and construction risk.
• Provide clear technical guidance to the design and construction teams.
• Manage design information, approvals, changes and programme deliverables.
• Liaise with statutory authorities, planning teams, building control and utility providers.
• Support collaborative working across the project and resolve design challenges before they affect delivery.
• Encourage innovation, continuous improvement and effective use of BIM and digital design.

You will be an accomplished Design Manager with proven experience operating at a senior level within construction, ideally on complex building, healthcare or technically demanding projects.

You will bring:

• Strong experience managing multidisciplinary design teams through pre-construction and project delivery.
• A detailed understanding of construction methods, buildability and design coordination.
• Experience managing M&E interfaces and third-party or novated design teams.
• Good working knowledge of BIM and digital design processes.
• Knowledge of current procurement routes, regulations, technical standards and codes of practice.
• Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• The confidence to challenge constructively, influence decisions and drive design progress.
• A valid CSCS card.
• Strong Microsoft Office and relevant design-management IT skills.

Professional membership of an appropriate institution, such as RIBA, CIBSE or IET, would be advantageous.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to an important healthcare environment while working with an experienced project team and one of the UK’s leading infrastructure and construction businesses.

You will have the platform to lead, influence and develop innovative design solutions while supporting the successful delivery of works within a live, complex hospital estate.

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

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