Wates is seeking a Design Manager to join our Residential team in the Southern region, supporting the design function for our development site in Guildford, Surrey.
If you are passionate about design, enjoy working within a team, and possess proven technical skills with a desire to challenge norms, bring fresh ideas, and advance your career, then join us to help create tomorrow together.
This role offers a great opportunity to progress your career within a talented, diverse, and supportive team.
About the Role
Our Design Managers play a vital role in our business, driving quality, improving buildability, and fostering innovation. They collaborate with customers and industry specialists to ensure designs meet the brief, focusing on added value, compliance, commercial viability, and best practices.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Producing and managing realistic design programmes and schedules to facilitate design, procurement, and construction.
2. Collaborating with a Senior Design Manager and technical team for smooth coordination across disciplines.
3. Supporting continuous improvement and innovation initiatives.
4. Ensuring design review, verification, compliance, and coordination, while mitigating health and safety risks and buildability issues before construction.
5. Working with stakeholders, consultants, and subcontractors to deliver quality outcomes and innovative solutions at each stage.
What We Offer
* Competitive salary & profit share scheme
* Flexible working arrangements
* Car allowance / company car
* Travel coverage to sites (subject to HMRC rates)
* Extensive benefits including Private Medical, Pension (8% employer contribution), Health & Wellness programs, 26 days holidays + bank holidays, and more
* Comprehensive training programs supporting your career growth (approx. 7,000 sessions delivered annually across the group)
* Generous family leave: 26 weeks paid maternity, 12 weeks paid paternity
Note: This position requires a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at offer stage. We evaluate applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis and are committed to fair employment practices.
About Wates
Wates is a leading UK family-owned development, construction, and property maintenance company with a 125+ year legacy. Our purpose is ‘reimagining places for people to thrive,’ guided by our promises:
* Thriving places: Creating sustainable, inclusive communities.
* Thriving planet: Protecting nature and combating climate change through collaboration and innovation.
* Thriving people: Fostering opportunities and inclusive relationships for all employees and partners.
We are recognized as a Gold Investors in People employer and a Disability Confident employer, committed to fair recruitment practices.
Awards
* Best Project – Inside Housing Development Awards
* 2022 Construction News Awards Winner
* Gold Investors in People 2022
* Considerate Constructors Schemes (CCS) National Site Awards
* Top 50 Employers for Women 2022
* 2022 Working Families Best Practice Awards
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