We have a fantastic Design Manager opportunity in our Leeds business
Location: Leeds
Hours: Full Time - Monday to Friday, opportunity for some hybrid / flexible working
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As Design Manager you will be exposed to a wide range of projects across education, healthcare, universities, Heritage, MOD and MOJ clients from £10m - £80M
Your day to day will include:
* Management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme and deliverable schedule.
* Ensuring that our appointed design consultants carry out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns to ensure compliance with standards and brief.
* Design input at both preconstruction and construction stage of projects.
* Assessing, mitigating and managing risks connected with design, ensuring designs meet health and safety legislation, sustainable building standards such as BREEAM and industry codes of practice
* chairing design meetings, writing reports and giving presentations.
* The production of design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules.
* Record progress and carry out upline reporting,
* Attending/chair necessary meetings and workshops with internal and external stakeholders.
* Ensuring that the design is compliant to relevant legislation and technical requirements.
What are we looking for?
This role of Design Manager is great for you if:
* You have demonstrable experience in a design role within a main contractor environment or architectural practice involved in large scale construction projects.
* Relevant construction qualification (Degree / HND or equivalent) Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture etc
* Experience of BIM level 2 projects, including COBie data, LoDM.
* Driving License
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 .
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier
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