Design Manager

Design Manager required for a Main Contractor near Crawley. They work on new build and refurbishment projects up to £10M in value, across commercial, local authority and private residential sectors. They are a small friendly team working out of beautiful offices, and the company is going from strength to strength. If you live within 45 mins of Crawley and are looking to secure a permanent role with long term prospects then please make contact today.

About the role:

Establish, maintain and manage effective project design resource and team profile at bid and delivery stages

Lead and provide a professional, comprehensive and sustainable design service for the customer and key partners and suppliers at bid and delivery stages

Manage and coordinate safely the overall design process through the RIBA design stages challenging the brief and bringing innovation and continuous improvements benefits to the projects at bid and delivery stages

Ensure completion and compliance of design management departmental procedures at bid and delivery stages

Involvement with 'design strategy' and approach

Ensure adherence to the design brief/scope of service and develop a comprehensive scope of service for key stages of project

Programme and manage all design reviews and coordination meetings

Ensure fully coordinated design strategy is in place and work closely with discipline lead designers to deliver coordinated design solutions

Establish the need for and input into design reviews

Ensure that design is developed in line with commercial and construction requirements and the cost plan budget allowances

Ideally you will have:

Significant experience in the main contracting market with experience of working on multiple disciplines i.e. Residential, Educational

What are we looking for?

As an experienced Design Manager, you will have a good understanding of construction design techniques and a HNC or HND (or equivalent) in Design Management or other equivalent commercially related subject.

You will live within 45 mins of Crawley and your CV will clearly demonstrate stable permanent employment.

Randstad Construction Property Engineering is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.