Senior Design Manager

As a Senior Design Manager, you'll play a key role in leading design throughout both pre-construction and delivery stages. You'll work collaboratively with project teams, supporting junior colleagues whilst ensuring design excellence across education, healthcare, science, and commercial projects. This is an opportunity to make a real impact, managing design processes and building strong relationships with consultants and stakeholders.

As a Senior Design Manager, you'll be working within the Construction team, supporting them in delivering major projects by leading all aspects of design management. Your day to day will include:

Leading the delivery of all design aspects including CDP and MEP design, working closely with technical specialists

Supervising design management team members and managing consultant performance using design programmes and quality plans

Reviewing design drawings and documents to ensure regulatory compliance, buildability, and identification of any design gaps

Developing design strategies aligned with commercial objectives during bid and pre-construction phases

Ensuring compliance with CDM Regulations, Building Safety Act, and ISO 19650 standards throughout project lifecycles

This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if:

You have construction qualifications (HND/HNC/T level or equivalent) and membership of a professional institute such as CIOB, ARB, or ICE

You have demonstrable experience working on educational, healthcare, science, commercial, or civic projects

You possess strong technical knowledge including sustainability and fire safety

You have proven people management skills with the ability to motivate teams and achieve high performance standards

You have excellent knowledge of building regulations, statutory legislation, building contracts, and consultant appointments

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. 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. You can see our D&I action plan here . 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.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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