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ROLE: Design & Project Manager
LOCATION: Bury St Edmunds
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Design & Project Manager to help build our design capability, developing a useable design library that drives innovative standardisation and financial efficiencies. You will also lead projects from inception through to handover, managing technically challenging works while developing strong relationships with our clients.
Role Responsibilities
1. Plan projects using Microsoft Project or similar tools.
2. Review and interpret Consultants' Proposals, qualification lists and design information to ensure designs meet client requirements.
3. Undertake value engineering at early design stages where appropriate.
4. Build, maintain and manage a central design library to ensure previous designs and learnings are fully utilised to maximise efficiency.
5. Provide guidance and support to contracts teams to ensure compliance with BIM requirements and contractual design obligations.
6. Undertake and regularly update BIM maturity assessments of suppliers throughout each project.
7. Select suitable tender lists for construction activities and respond to queries during the tender process.
8. Oversee asset data collection and ensure accurate communication through both Mitie's and customers' CAFM systems.
9. Lead the development of project designs through agreed procurement routes and ensure all deliverables required under the relevant RIBA stages are met.
10. Assemble an effective Project Management team for each scheme.
11. Operate within an MOD environment and comply with all security protocols (SC clearance required, with a minimum of 5 years' checkable UK work history).
Required Qualifications
Applicants must meet the requirements below for this role:
12. Experienced Project Manager within design and construction, ideally within a secure, MOD or military environment.
13. Strong understanding of the full RIBA design process.
14. Extensive knowledge of Health & Safety legislation.
15. Holder of a valid CSCS card and SMSTS (or equivalent).
16. Strong technical construction knowledge.
17. Knowledge of current Building Regulations and experience reviewing M&E designs.
18. Experience working on projects achieving BREEAM/DREAM ratings.
19. Proficient in AutoCAD.
20. Ability to interpret and review BIM models.
What's in it for you?
21. Opportunity to shape and build Mitie's central design capability.
22. Work on diverse and technically challenging projects in a secure MOD environment.
23. Access to a wide range of Mitie benefits, training and development programmes.
There's a place for you at Mitie – join us today!
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Cory Ambler at .