Senior Design Manager

We're looking for a Design Manager to join our Severn Trent Framework

Location: Wanlip
Hours: 45 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

As a Design Manager, you'll play a key role in coordinating the development and delivery of multidisciplinary design information for water and wastewater projects. This is a collaborative position focused on design coordination, programme management, information flow and stakeholder engagement. You'll work closely with designers, project delivery teams, clients, suppliers and construction colleagues to ensure design information is complete, coordinated, buildable and issued in line with project requirements.

Using Autodesk Construction Cloud as the common data environment, you'll help maintain clear visibility of deliverables, reviews, design risks, interfaces, changes and approvals throughout the project lifecycle.

As a Design Manager, you'll be working within the water and wastewater team, supporting them in delivering successful project outcomes. Your day to day will include:

• Coordinating design activities across civil, mechanical, electrical, process and other relevant disciplines
• Using Autodesk Construction Cloud to manage design documents, review comments, approval workflows and controlled information
• Organising and facilitating design coordination meetings, recording decisions, actions and completion dates
• Working with the planning team to align design activities with the project programme and construction needs
• Building effective working relationships with clients, designers, construction teams, suppliers and other project stakeholders

This role of Design Manager is great for you if:

• You have an engineering, construction or related qualification, or equivalent relevant experience
• You have experience coordinating design information or multidisciplinary project deliverables in a construction, infrastructure, engineering or utilities environment
• You have practical experience using Autodesk Construction Cloud for document management, design reviews, comments, workflows and approvals
• You have strong organisation and prioritisation skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple work streams and meet deadlines
• You have clear written and verbal communication skills and the confidence to facilitate meetings and follow up actions

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.