Assistant Design Manager

Position: Assistant Design Manager (Permanent)
Assistant Design Manager – Wakefield
Looking for your next big step into construction design management?
We’re working with a highly successful main contractor that’s expanding its design team and offering a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Design Manager / Design Coordinator.
With a strong pipeline of projects secured well into 2026, this is a chance to be part of a thriving business delivering varied schemes across education, healthcare, commercial, distribution and industrial sectors, typically valued up to £15m.
This is the perfect role for someone with experience in design management, or for an Architect/Technologist who’s ready to move into the contracting world and apply their design skills in a fast-paced, practical environment.

What you’ll be doing :

* Coordinating design information across live projects to keep everything moving smoothly

* Carrying out design-gap reviews, value engineering and design risk management

* Collaborating with project teams, consultants, clients and subcontractors to create the best design solutions

* Driving safe, efficient and profitable project delivery through clear sequencing of design

* Managing consultant appointments and scopes of service

* Leading and contributing to design meetings, ensuring timely, accurate information

* Providing technical input for pre-qualification and client presentations

What’s in it for you:

* Salary up to £40,000

* Car allowance + full benefits package

* Ongoing training and clear career progression with a highly successful main building contractor

* The chance to work on diverse, high-profile projects in a supportive, ambitious team
If you’re ambitious, detail-focused and ready to push your design management career forward, this is the role for you