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Design Director
Job Posted: 2 days ago
Salary: £ 90,000 - 100,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Design Manager
Birmingham
£Superb salary and benefits
This globally recognised consultancy are seeking a leader for their industry and buildings group in the Midlands, which combines both their environmental consultancy and engineering design offering. Providing expert and specialist consultancy services within the built environment with target sectors including logistics, manufacturing, mission critical facilities, offshore wind and ports they are seen as industry leaders.
You will be joining their integrated project delivery business, working as part of the Design and Project Management team. The focus will be on the responsibility for a project, or number of projects, working with one of their business lines to help provide expertise in project delivery.
Their project teams are constantly looking for opportunities to improve their delivery, in terms of automation and innovation and you will be part of this process, constantly looking for opportunities across their projects. Working closely with the design engineers and technicians both internal and sometimes external depending on the complexity of the project.
Based in Birmingham the range of projects cover a wide area across the UK and Europe – which will involve quite regular travel.
For your part you will manage and deliver the design output for medium to large complex design projects. Alongside this form relationships with clients, internal teams, stakeholders and third-party specialists and manage design teams and achieve technically correct and co-ordinated designs on programme, and within agreed budget. Additionally provide design support and aid with problem solving during co-ordination meetings, design manage communications upstream to the client, and downstream to the team as appropriate.
There will also be involvement in supporting the of their design offering with continual client engagement and business development.
The role will involve the technical delivery, completion and co-ordination of designs to programme deadlines. Oversee quality and checking processes for designs as well as
lead design concepts and design reviews on projects and progress review meetings.
Acting as the lead RFI and design change control processes on projects, leading on value engineering reviews on projects and assisting with the commercial control over design project.
You will assist with the Project Management team to promote Design Management within the business and provide mentoring to less senior Design Managers whilst supporting the positive culture in order to promote a satisfied Client and ensure repeat business;
A graduate in either Architecture, Civil/Structural or Building Services with minimum of 8 years’ experience in a senior Design Management role and all that entails.
You will have a thorough NEC contract knowledge and the ability to show a detailed understanding of complex building design and site wide infrastructure involving Civils, Transport, MEP. Additionally a thorough knowledge of the planning and permitting process applied to complex projects.
This role offers an excellent salary and benefits package together with superb prospects to progress within the groupBefore You Apply
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