Senior Design Manager

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our nationally based team working across the Education, Defence, Health and Justice sectors. Kier Design are a highly regarded design consultancy, with a 750 plus strong team, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor, and ranked in the top 25 of Building Magazine's top 150 Consultants.

Location: Nationally based, with local office working available
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.
Salary: starting from £60,000 per year 

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

Are you…

• Experienced in a Senior Design Manager or comparable role within construction, infrastructure or the built environment
• Skilled in managing multi-disciplinary design through pre-construction, including tender and detailed design stages
• Knowledgeable about construction methodology, buildability, design standards and statutory requirements
• Commercially aware with a strong understanding of the relationship between design decisions, cost and programme
• Confident in leading client-facing communication, negotiation and stakeholder management

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Design Manager, you'll be working within the pre-construction team, supporting them in delivering strategic design leadership and technical assurance across a portfolio of projects. You'll provide technical assurance and project-management discipline throughout the entire project lifecycle, from early design concepts through to handover. You'll work collaboratively with clients, consultants, and internal teams, building trusted relationships while ensuring design solutions are compliant, buildable, and aligned with project objectives. This role offers the chance to make a real impact, leading multidisciplinary teams and mentoring Design Managers, all while contributing to meaningful projects in the built environment.

Your day to day will include:

• Leading design management across allocated complex projects and providing strategic direction from concept through to handover
• Managing design programmes, deliverables, resources, fees, budgets and change control processes
• Acting as a senior interface with clients, consultants and project teams, leading design meetings and technical workshops
• Providing technical oversight and ensuring design solutions are coordinated, compliant and buildable
• Line managing Design Managers, coaching and mentoring team members to support their development

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.