WHITE COLLAR

Location: Leeds

Hours: 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday in the office

Salary: Competitive (DOE)

Team: Leeds Design Office – Design Coordinators, CAD/BIM Technicians, Graduates, Document Control; interfaces with site teams, Temporary Works, external designers/consultants, and clients.

Lead and manage the Leeds Design Office to deliver safe, compliant, timely and cost‑effective design outputs across Joseph Gallagher projects. You will run the operation — planning resources, setting standards and processes, coordinating internal and external designers, and ensuring design deliverables support programme, budget, quality and safety objectives. A strong project management background and sound understanding of design are essential; you are not required to be a practising designer.

• Manage the company’s Design Delivery for temporary and permanent works across our internal resource in the UK and Beirut and Bahrain
• Manage the company’s supply chain partners used to supplement internal resource
• Own day‑to‑day running of the Leeds Design Office, acting as the single point of accountability for design delivery across the business.
• Plan and balance workload, resources and forecasting across live projects and bids; manage recruitment, onboarding and supplier frameworks as required.
• Establish and maintain design management procedures aligned to the Business Management System, including design reviews, approval routes and stage gates.
• Set, agree and monitor design programmes; drive accountability for milestones and information flow.
• Oversee the Common Data Environment (CDE) and document control, ensuring the right information is issued to the right people at the right time.
• Produce Monthly Report to demonstrate delivery, efficiency and financial return for presentation at CVR meetings

• Lead design kick‑off/clarification meetings; define scope, interfaces and deliverables matrices.
• Coordinate internal teams and external consultants to produce integrated, buildable solutions; challenge scope, drive value engineering and optioneering.
• Chair/coordinate IDC/IDR (inter‑discipline and independent design reviews) and technical audits.
• Manage/Coordinate design team to ensure queries/RFIs and change control are managed and decision logs and design registers are maintained.
• Ensure timely support to site teams, including temporary works coordination with the TWC and interface with supply chain designers.

• Ensure designs comply with contract requirements, applicable standards/codes, consents and employer’s requirements.
• Embed the principles of CDM 2015 and design risk management; support Principal Designer duties where appointed (or coordinate with the appointed PD).
• Drive right‑first‑time culture and continuous improvement; manage non‑conformances, lessons learned and close‑out.
• Ensure accurate as‑built information and O&M/Health & Safety File contributions are delivered.

• Set and manage design budgets, forecasts and earned value; track fee proposals and sub‑consultant spend.
• Protect programme by monitoring design progress against critical path; elevate risks early with recovery plans.
• Support bid teams with design strategy, methodologies, programme and design deliverables during work winning.

• Line‑manage the Leeds design team: objectives, coaching, capability development and succession planning.
• Build a collaborative, inclusive culture that promotes safety by design, innovation and knowledge sharing.
• Manage performance with clear KPIs and regular reviews; address issues promptly and professionally.

• Champion the effective use of the CDE and model‑based coordination (2D/3D/4D as appropriate).
• Ensure information requirements (AIR/EIR), model deliverables and naming/metadata standards are met.

• On‑time delivery of design packages and approvals.
• Efficient use of business and supply chain resources
• RFI/design query turnaround time and overdue actions.
• Design‑…