Lead Designer

We're looking for a Lead Designer to join our project team based in the London Region.

Location: Based out of our London offices, with travel to London sites.
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.

As a Lead Designer, you'll play a key role in coordinating design delivery across all disciplines, working alongside our Senior Digital Construction Manager and Building Services Leads. You'll ensure our design processes run smoothly whilst supporting excellence across our London projects. This is an opportunity to lead technical delivery whilst mentoring and developing a talented team of design professionals.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Lead Designer, you'll be working within the project team, supporting them in ensuring design delivery and coordination across all disciplines. Your day to day will include:

• Providing technical leadership for your assigned function, ensuring best practice is applied throughout all project stages
• Building a centre of excellence through training, continuous professional development, and individual staff development plans
• Managing the design and quality of a portfolio of projects, working collaboratively with Sector Leads and Region Directors
• Line managing and mentoring design managers, acting as career manager for your team
• Conducting regular site visits to review design programmes and ensure all parties are meeting their obligations

What are we looking for?

This role of Lead Designer is great for you if:

• You have demonstrable experience in a design role within a main contractor environment
• You have experience carrying out site audits and project reviews
• You've worked on BIM level 2 projects, including COBie data and LoDM
• You hold a Full driving licence
• You're passionate about developing others and building high-performing teams

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.