Senior Design Manager

Skanska; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm based in Cambridge seeks a Senior Design Manager to oversee the design management process for a major commercial project. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the design team, ensuring compliance with legislative requirements, and maintaining the design delivery timelines, costs, and quality standards. Applicants should have a professional qualification in architecture or engineering and demonstrable experience in delivering commercial projects. This role offers opportunities for leadership and management within a diverse team.

Qualifications

• Demonstratable experience of delivering Commercial projects on quality, time, and budget.
• Experience working through bid, PCSA, and delivery stages.
• Experienced in the whole project lifecycle including bidding and construction phases.

Responsibilities

• Assist in appointment of design team and management of contracts.
• Manage the creation of the project design management plan.
• Chair Design team meetings and maintain clear record keeping.
• Lead buildability and value engineering reviews.
• Monitor and report on design progress weekly and monthly.

Skills

Experience in delivering Commercial projects

Knowledge of CDM Regulations

Experience with NEC3 & 4, JCT contracts

Use of digital technologies for design

Proven track record of managing design teams

Education

Professional architectural or engineering qualification

Tools

CDE and BIM software

BREEAM sustainability tools

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Building team based in Cambridge, to work on a large scale commercial project to manage the design process, design team and trade contractor design on a project.

This is a key role in managing the delivery of design in accordance with the design management plan and design brief, including client requirements, cost, programme, best practice design standards and design responsibilities.

What you'll do:

• Assist in appointment of design team and management of design team contracts to cost, time, quality & safety requirements.
• Manage the creation of the project design management plan and ensure all members of the design team are aware of their responsibilities
• Manage the production and co-ordination of the design programme, Employers Requirements and design deliverables schedule throughout the project
• Chair Design team meetings and other design orientated meetings
• Ensure clear record keeping and monitoring of design process/programme/deliverables
• Comment and approve design information through the project CDE (e.g. Asite)
• Ensure the design complies with Client brief, contract, current legislation, town planning, building regulations, CDM and relevant technical requirements
• Ensure that all responsibilities under CDM regulations are maintained by the project and design teams
• Lead buildability and value engineering reviews
• Ensure BIM Execution Plan & CAD protocol are maintained
• Ensure contractors proposals are compliant with employer's requirements
• Ensure any design derogations are included in the contract
• Monitor and report on design progress on a weekly and monthly basis, including taking action to maintain design delivery to time, cost, quality and safety requirements.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Demonstratable experience of delivering Commercial projects working through bid, PCSA and delivery stages, and successfully converting and delivering on quality, time and to budget.
• Demonstrable experience of varied forms of contract including NEC3 & 4, and JCT.
• Professional architectural or engineering qualification.
• Extensive experience of design delivery – building, civil engineering & MEP installations
• Experience in delivering design across whole project lifecycle (bidding, pre-construction and construction phases)
• Experienced in use of digital technologies to deliver design (e.g. CDE, BIM and design co-ordination software) and experience of delivering to the ISO19650 Information Management standard.
• Experience and working knowledge in use of CDM Regulations and the Principal Designer duties.
• Experienced in use of sustainability tools (e.g. BREEAM)

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [e-mail] or call 0330 105 2000 – Option 5 & 1, if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [e-mail]

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.