Design Manager

We're looking for a Design Manager to join our Eastern & Midlands team based in Stansted, Essex.

Location: Stansted, Essex
Hours: Full Time - 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.

Our Eastern & Midlands regional business has an exceptional track record in delivering projects across DfE, Healthcare, MOD, MOJ, Leisure, Higher Education and Heritage. As Design Manager, you'll lead as the subject matter expert on your assigned project, with potential involvement in tender and pre-construction design management on pipeline projects.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Design Manager, you'll be working within the Eastern & Midlands team, supporting them in delivering exceptional construction projects. Your day to day will include:

• Managing and delivering design information in accordance with agreed programmes and schedules
• Ensuring appointed design consultants carry out their duties, interrogating returns to ensure compliance with standards and brief
• Assessing, mitigating and managing risks connected with design, ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation and sustainable building standards
• Chairing design meetings, producing reports and presentations, and creating design programmes, scopes and responsibility matrices
• Attending and chairing meetings with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery

What are we looking for?

This role of Design Manager is great for you if:

• You have demonstrable experience in a design role within a main contractor environment
• You hold a relevant construction qualification such as a Degree, HND or equivalent in Architecture, Construction Management or Engineering
• You have strong experience with BIM level 2 projects, including COBie data
• You possess excellent attention to detail and strong stakeholder management capability
• You hold a Full driving licence

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

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.

Diversity and inclusion

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.