Senior Design Manager
Opportunity for a Senior Design Manager with a background of Main Contracting and experience of managing residential schemes to join a family owned residential contractor. The business have a great mentality towards work and employees, giving great opportunities to work on interesting projects. The business have a strong pipeline of work and as a result of this are looking to grow the design team.
Projects - Residential & Social Housing
Key Deliverables
* Provide technical advice on proposal documents, presentations and meetings
* Conduct audits and technical reviews of tender information, subcontractor proposals, company proposals and in some cases a secondary project being overseen by the SDM directly
* 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 schedule
* 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
* Continuous development of design management team and self by conducting lessons learnt activities, ensure information from lessons learnt flow into new, similar projects, improving design processes
* Proactively seek business development opportunities through professional networks