Graduate Project/Design Manager

Buro Happold group.; Bristol; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Graduate to join their Projects team in Bath. This role involves managing clients' design projects, ensuring deadlines are met and coordinating with specialists. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills, be organized, and show a proactive attitude. Typical degrees include Design Management, Project Management, or Construction Management. The firm values diversity and welcomes flexible working patterns.

Skills

Proficient communication skills

Organised and able to plan ahead

Ability to work across multiple projects

Intermediate Excel skills

Proactive and approachable attitude

Perceptive to spot problems

Able to work independently

Enthusiastic about performance

Identify process improvements

Education

Design Management

Project Management

Construction Management

Job description

We are looking for a Graduate to join our Projects team in Bath.With a world class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities alike. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.

What is Product Design Management?

• We ensure our client’s design projects run smoothly with the help of our expertise in hitting deadlines, mitigating risk and coordinating specialists. Our product design management services include:
• A single point of contact fully informed on the progress of the whole multidisciplinary team
• Guidance on which specialists your project needs and when
• Clear guidance on any complex technical issues
• Maintaining a realistic commercial framework without compromising creativity
• An overview of your project’s progress, risks and timetable across multiple design work streams
• Advice on contract and procurement approaches
• Improving team cohesion, mitigating risks and addressing potential problems early

The transformation of the 42-acre brownfield site around the formerly redundant Battersea Power Station is one of the most ambitious regeneration projects London has seen in decades.Electric Boulevard, featuring vibrant rows of independent shops with stylish apartments above, will be at the heart of the new community.

The University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus sits at the heart of the city’s vibrant new Temple Quarter and adjacent to the main railway terminus, Bristol Temple Meads.With improvements to the train station planned, as well as new housing, infrastructure, retail and leisure areas, the Temple Quarter initiative aims to create 22,000 jobs over the lifetime of the project.

New Stadium for Everton

To give fans the modern matchday experience they expect, Everton is putting everything that makes Goodison Park so special – the character, camaraderie and shared sense of tradition – into creating an inspirational new place to play and watch football.Set on Liverpool’s waterfront, the planned stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock will reinvigorate a semi-derelict site less than two miles along the Mersey from the famous Royal Liver Building.

What skills can you bring to the role?

• Proficient communication skills, comfortable conversing with senior staff members across the practice
• Organised and able toplan aheadto meet deadlines
• Ability to work across multiple projects and prioritise tasks appropriately
• Intermediate level skills in Microsoftofficeespecially Excel.
• Proactive and approachable attitude when dealing with internal and external customers
• Sufficiently perceptive to spotpossible problemsand takeappropriate actionto address or escalate as needed
• Able to work independently anddemonstrateinitiative
• Enthusiastic about delivering excellent performance; takes responsibility for own delivery
• Canidentifywhere processes maybenefitfrom improvement

What degree would I have studied?

We welcome people into our team with a broad range of experience. Typical degrees include:

• Design Management
• Project Management
• Construction Management

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us.Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another.Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact [e-mail] so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.