Senior Design Manager

Senior Design Manager

Location:
Welwyn Garden City

We are looking for an experienced and talented Senior Design Manager to manage the design aspects of tenders and projects in progress within the Northern Home Counties Business.

This position is project based, with flexibility for occasional remote working.

About Morgan Sindall Construction

Morgan Sindall Construction is one of the UK's leading construction companies, delivering high-quality projects across education, healthcare, commercial, industrial, leisure and public sector markets. As part of the Morgan Sindall Group, we combine national expertise with strong local relationships to create places that enhance communities and leave a lasting positive impact. We are committed to delivering excellence for our customers while providing a safe, inclusive and rewarding environment where our people can thrive and develop their careers.

About the role:

You will be working within our Northern Home Counties business, where you will:

• Establish, maintain and manage effective project design resource and team profile at bid and delivery stages
• Lead and provide a professional, comprehensive and sustainable design service for the customer and key partners and suppliers at bid and delivery stages
• Manage and coordinate safely the overall design process through the RIBA design stages challenging the brief and bringing innovation and continuous improvements benefits to the projects at bid and delivery stages
• Ensure completion and compliance of design management departmental procedures at bid and delivery stages
• Involvement with 'design strategy' and approach
• Ensure adherence to the design brief/scope of service and develop a comprehensive scope of service for key stages of project
• Programme and manage all design reviews and coordination meetings
• Ensure fully coordinated design strategy is in place and work closely with discipline lead designers to deliver coordinated design solutions
• Establish the need for and input into design reviews
• Ensure that design is developed in line with commercial and construction requirements and the cost plan budget allowances

Ideally you will have:

Significant experience in the main contracting market with experience of working on Leisure Pool/Healthcare/Education schemes. £30M - £80m

What are we looking for?

As an experienced Senior Design Manager, you will have a good understanding of construction design techniques and a HNC or HND (or equivalent) in Design Management or other equivalent commercially related subject, and/or CIOB Membership. Experience on both single stage and two stage tenders.

To thrive in our business, you should share our passion for the project at hand and enjoy working in an inclusive and hardworking team environment. At Morgan Sindall Construction our employees work collectively, encouraging and challenging each other to succeed. Across our business we treat everyone equally and have developed a community where voices are heard, and respected.

What can we offer you?

You will be part of a growing and dynamic team of people who are passionate about what they do and enjoy the challenge and pace of work in a hardworking and fun construction environment. No day will be the same and we challenge each other to deliver what's right for our customers.

Our culture is so important to us and defines the way we go about our business. We are inclusive, supportive and team focused and take pride in the longstanding and committed relationships we have with our supply chain partners.

Our culture places a huge amount of trust in our team - we all know what is expected of us and we are committed to delivering as individuals and as a team.

Equality Statement

Morgan Sindall Construction seeks to recruit the best person for each of our roles, based on merit alone and free from bias. We're committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their background, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

We recruit individuals who embody our core values of professionalism, expertise and trust which has given us a fantastic variety of people and cultures across our organisation.

Morgan Sindall Construction are committed to collaborating with skilled and dedicated people, we recognise that valuable experience is gained outside of the industry. We are welcoming and fully supportive of Veteran and Service Leaver applicants for all roles within the business.

We celebrate our diverse teams who make Morgan Sindall Construction the inclusive,…