Design Manager

WANTED!!! Assistant Design Manager / Design Coordinator or Design Manager

What makes it great? Professional & friendly team environment. Excellent relationships and a prompt payer to subcontractors and suppliers. Big enough to keep you busy, but small enough to know your name, excellent option if you are fed up of being treated like just another number. Project types: leisure, commercial, industrial, student accommodation, Care Homes, Hotels, Education and Healthcare. Excellent opportunity for career progression through a period of organic growth.

My client is a reputable building main contractor, with a busy and fast growing workload. As a result of securing further new projects, the employer is looking to strengthen their team with the appointment of a Design Coordinator / Manager to work on a range of exciting projects. Multi-Million Pound Projects live and ready to go.

• Design Manager covering all aspects of the design coordination for the business on various projects. Design Coordinator is similar in scope but on smaller projects or as part of a team on a larger scale project.
• Arranging and chairing the Design team meetings to lead the process with the consultants and subcontract designers, issuing minutes and ensuring the resulting actions are actioned.
• Collate and manage the contract specifications, drawings and related documents for the construction process.
• Carry out drawing reviews, issuing comments and ensuring all comments are added to the design.
• Carry out technical reviews of any proposed works to ensure contractual and technical compliance.
• Prepare and manage the Design and procurement schedule and issue information release schedules to set design target dates.
• Offer input and design reviews into the procurement process.
• Provide design support to Project Management teams.
• Review and implement value engineering opportunities.
• Coordinate with the M&E managers to ensure coordination of the M&E install and commissioning process.
• Utilising specialist consultants to coordinate the information and design to ensure BREEAM and Part L compliance are attained as required.
• Coordinate the submission of information to satisfy building control compliance.
• Coordinate the submission of information to satisfy all planning conditions are discharged.
• Lead design review workshops with the client / tenant to ensure understanding and satisfaction with proposed works.
• Manage the design change proposals for client sign-off.
• Submit design information to the client team and record, track and close out any comments and queries that arise.
• Issue, track and close out any requests for information that arise to enable the design to be completed. Assist in the collation of the O&M health and safety file.

• Knowledge of the building sector.
• Previous employment as a Design Coordinator, D&B Coordinator, D&B Manager, Design Manager, Site Engineer, Project Manager, Design Engineer (civil / structural), Architect or Architectural Technician backgrounds also considered.
• High level of communication skills.
• Relevant industry qualification (Degree / HND / HNC etc.), ideally a civil engineering qualification.

• Competitive basic salary dependent on experience.
• Car allowance.
• Pension.
• Bonus.

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