Design Manager

Salford, Manchester
Kier Group

We’re looking for a Design Manager to join our Design team based in Salford. The team are part of a leading Tier 1 construction contractor, the Design Manager will be offered exposure to a wide range of projects from £10M – £200M in value across the rail and / or aviation industry. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more

Location: Salford / North West / Nationwide

Hours: 42 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

What will you be responsible for?

As Design Manager, you’ll be working within the Assured Delivery team, supporting them in delivering Design and Engineering assurance on a single project or portfolio of smaller projects at tender and contract stage. Undertaking design management and acting as a discipline specialist during delivery stage. Managing interfaces between Design and Construction teams throughout project development lifecycle, reaching the most efficient and effective solution, whilst meeting all relevant company standards procedures and policies.

Your day to day will include:

• Managing design consultant appointments and input into supply chain contracts, ensuring appointed design consultants are carrying out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns confirming compliance with standards and brief, producing design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments and schedules
• Leading on design development and optioneering, providing a strong focus on buildability between construction and design teams selecting the most efficient and effective solutions, engaging with specialist suppliers both at tender and contract stage, contributing to and recording design decisions including decisions made to embed safe by design, buildability, value engineering, whole life cost and sustainability, recording best practice and lessons learned, providing input to and managing output from the change control process relating to the design and design supply chain, including leading value engineering on projects
• Identifying project inputs early by developing and maintaining survey and investigation schedules and associated deliverables, informing design development of permanent and temporary works, producing and maintaining an engineering deliverables schedule ensuring the timely production and approval of engineering deliverables
• Chairing and recording actions from design review meetings and design integration meetings, resolving interface issues between design and construction teams and closing out discipline specific technical interfaces, attending and providing discipline specific engineering input into interdisciplinary check meetings (IDC), resolving detailing issues requiring input from other parties (e.g. Client, contractors, sub contractors and fabricators)
• Maintaining register of TQs / RFIs and chasing close out of TQs / RFIs between BGCL, client and BGCL supply chain (designers and contactors), managing design change through the TQ process and seeking client approval, where required, communicating change to all parties

What are we looking for?

This role of Design Manager is great for you if:

• A degree in Civil Engineering or a similar discipline
• You are working in a Design or Construction engineering environment, are able to effectively manage and communicate information through electronic document control systems, can influence design development and manage the compliance during site delivery
• Driving licence is needed to attend various meeting on sites and in offices

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 .

We look forward to seeing your application to join the