Design Lead - to be a manager
New Today
We believe in building teams around our people, rather than squeezing people into our teams, and we want to help you carve out a role in which you'll grow and thrive for many years to come. We offer market-leading development opportunities, supporting our graduates through the early stages of their careers, enabling our people to become professionally qualified, providing management training and qualifications, and supporting ongoing technical development throughout our people's careers., Nationwide - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required.
As a Senior Design Manager, you'll be working within the Assured Delivery team. You'll be at the heart of managing design excellence across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure projects within Kier Design. You'll work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, providing expert guidance to ensure design quality, innovation and compliance across Transportation, Water, Environment and Energy sectors.
Leading design management and engineering assurance, maintaining control of design programmes, budgets and quality standards
Managing interfaces between stakeholders, design teams and construction teams throughout the project lifecycle
Leading design development with a focus on buildability, safety, sustainability and value engineering
Ensuring technical compliance and quality control across all design requirements
This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if:
You have a degree in an engineering discipline and are professionally qualified (CEng/IEng) or working towards qualification, have experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering and construction projects
You're a collaborative team player with excellent communication skills and relationship-building abilities
You're resourceful and creative with a talent for innovative problem-solving
You have detailed knowledge of CDM 2015 and strong technical and information management skills, with a valid driving licence
Diversity and inclusion
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. 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.
Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, Life Assurance, Enhanced Family Friendly Policies, Discounts on go-to brands, Free Heath and wellbeing services, Training and development schemes, Electric Vehicle Leasing, Paid volunteering leave.
- Location:
- United Kingdom
- Job Type:
- FullTime
