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Design Manager

Job Posted: 5 hours ago

Salary: £ 60,000 - 70,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: London

Expire in: a month

Job Description

MB860: Design Manager
Location: Central London
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 + £5,750 Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Company Car/Car Allowance (Depending on job grade), Pension matched up to 8%, 25 days annual leave – plus holiday (opportunity to buy/sell leave will be implemented from January 2026), Private medical insurance, Free 24/7 EAP

Overview:

First Military Recruitment is proudly working in partnership with a fantastic national construction business who are looking to recruit a Design Manager on a permanent basis due to growth based at their London depot.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Manage the process, resolution and communication of all design queries as part of the project.
Review contract requirements and ensure compliance with requirements.
Raise requests for further information internally and externally from the whole project team.
Collaborate in the preparation of design programmes.
Manage communication with the Client design representative throughout the contract period.
Produce monthly reports on design progress and any other design-specific elements.
Manage and update the design deliverable schedule.
Review all design deliverables and ensure that they are completed to the expected standard. Challenge and resolve when not.
Manage and chair design reviews with the project team.
Manage and chair all design interface meetings with external parties.
Review designs for compliance with contract requirements and tender intentions.
Ensure compliance with design approval processes required by the contract.
Routinely monitor and report on progress of the design and explain any necessary actions.
Collaborate with the engagement of external suppliers/subcontractors.
Ensure the document register is completed by designers correctly and issued periodically.
Manage provision of drawings to the project team (document control).
Establish technical query procedure.
Review all design communications and collaboratively resolve queries.
Agree changes with the project team in accordance with project authority protocol.
Issue instructions to the Designer in accordance with project authority protocol.
Implement change order management.
Approve the designer’s quality management system.
Lead Design Reviews with approval and acceptance bodies.
Support Assurance functions with design-specific requirements.
Skills and Qualifications:

Wide-ranging understanding and working knowledge of construction methods and outputs and can coach others.
Must have spent 12 months completing designs as part of a consultancy or temporary works design department.
Will have both substantial construction and design experience.
Ability to deputise for the Project Manager if required.
Understands the Principal Designer Duties including ERIC.
MB860: Design Manager
Location: Central London
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 + £5,750 Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Company Car/Car Allowance (Depending on job grade), Pension matched up to 8%, 25 days annual leave – plus holiday (opportunity to buy/sell leave will be implemented from January 2026), Private medical insurance, Free 24/7 EAP

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