Details:
- Salary: £80,000 - 95,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: South London
- Date: 3 weeks ago
Description:
Senior Design Manager – Main Contractor – South London
£95,000 base salary + £7k Car Allowance + 6 % Pension + BUPA + Bonus + Life Assurance
A unique opportunity to join Tier 1 Main Contractor in London, who work on exciting and challenging projects.
This main contractor is looking Senior Design Manager to work on £175million healthcare project in London with key client. They are looking for someone who can manage the overall design from tender stage through to completion of design.
This business unit work on projects from £70million up to £250million mainly across residential, mix use and commercial sector. They have group turnover of £1 Billion and grown to become prestigious Main Contractor with excellent pipeline of work across private and public sector.
They offer excellent training and development to upskill and progress their career. They have great fun and family feel culture. They are technology focused and use modern methods of construction to deliver a high-quality product to their clients.
I am ideally looking for someone with good experience working on high rise residential and high rise offices in London with a main contractor.
Overview of responsibilities:
Provide technical advice on proposal documents, presentations and meetings
Conduct audits and technical reviews of tender information, subcontractor proposals
Monitor and report against compliance requirements during adjudications
Develop detailed understanding of clients’ ideas, expectations and requirements, breaking down technical jargon and ensuring clients’ ideas and needs lead to concepts and detailed designs
Prepare and develop employer requirements and robust contractor proposals
Identify and evaluate design risk to ensure ease of buildability thereby reducing/eliminating company risk/claims
Identify any scope gaps thereby mitigating risks and developing value engineering/programme opportunities
Review subcontractors’ proposals to identify and develop value engineering opportunities
Produce detailed design programmes and design delivery schedules
Ensure consistency of design management process on schemes, reviewing protocols, reviewing design programmes, design specification, and design scopes
Contribute to commercial and contractual documentation, negotiations and disputes
Ensure design delivery is in line with procurement strategy, project cost plan and value engineering targets
Ensure compliance of design brief and managing change control process
Recommend and initiate changes to project delivery plans, develop new project management and operating tools and processes
Ensure effective procurement of design services
Manage consultant/subcontractor teams ensuring works are delivered according to specification
Ensure the compilation of detail requirements and responsibilities for technical handover documentation including H&S file, building manuals, Building User Guide
Required Skills & Qualifications
Construction related degree, ideally within design management (HNC / HND minimum).
Design management experience with tier 1 Main Contractor is essential
Experience working on residential and commercial projects over £80million
If you are interested in this exceptional opportunity, please call me for a confidential discussion on (phone number removed) or email your details to (url removed)