Hertfordshire
£85k-£95k + Package
Opportunity for a Senior Design Manager with a background of Main Contracting and experience of managing residential led schemes to join a family owned residential contractor in the Hertfordshire area. The business have a great mentality towards work and the employees, giving great opportunities to work on interesting projects.
Key Deliverables
1. Provide technical advice on proposal documents, presentations and meetings
2. 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
3. Monitor and report against compliance requirements during adjudications
4. 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
5. Prepare and develop employer requirements and robust contractor proposals
6. Identify and evaluate design risk to ensure ease of buildability thereby reducing/eliminating company risk/claims
7. Identify any scope gaps thereby mitigating risks and developing value engineering/programme opportunities
8. Review subcontractors’ proposals to identify and develop value engineering opportunities
9. Produce detailed design programmes and design delivery schedule
10. Ensure consistency of design management process on schemes, reviewing protocols, reviewing design programmes, design specification, and design scopes
11. Contribute to commercial and contractual documentation, negotiations and disputes
12. Ensure design delivery is in line with procurement strategy, project cost plan and value engineering targets
13. Ensure compliance of design brief and managing change control process
14. Recommend and initiate changes to project delivery plans, develop new project management and operating tools and processes
15. Ensure effective procurement of design services
16. Manage consultant/subcontractor teams ensuring works are delivered according to specification
17. Ensure the compilation of detail requirements and responsibilities for technical handover documentation including H&S file, building manuals, Building User Guide
18. 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
19. Proactively seek business development opportunities through professional networks