Design Manager

Design Manager (Welwyn Garden City Business)

Location: Welwyn Garden City Office Based, with flexibility for occasional remote working

We are looking for an experienced and talented Design Manager to manage the design aspects of projects and tenders in progress within the London business.

About Morgan Sindall
Morgan Sindall Construction is an Investors in People Platinum employer providing national construction services to private and public sector customers across a range of markets. Together, we create great results for our customers, partners, and people. We are one of the UK's most successful Tier 1 contractors. As a progressive and ambitious company, our employees benefit from a safe and rewarding working environment.

About the role:

1. Establish, maintain, and manage effective project design resource and team profile at bid and delivery stages.
2. Lead and provide a professional, comprehensive, and sustainable design service for the customer and key partners/suppliers at bid and delivery stages.
3. Manage and co-ordinate 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.
4. Ensure completion and compliance of design management departmental procedures at bid and delivery stages.
5. Involvement with 'design strategy' and approach.
6. Ensure adherence to the design brief/scope of service and develop a comprehensive scope of service for key stages of project.
7. Co-ordinate the activities of the design team, contractors, and statutory bodies (e.g. Local Authority planners & Building Control/HSE) in line with programme critical dates.
8. Ensure the design process recognises compliancy issues, current legislation, standards, and codes of practice.
9. Maintain design within cost restraints, fully incorporating customers' requirements.
10. Coordinate change control system and ensure changes are accounted for, authorised, and implemented, as necessary, with the project manager and client.

Ideally you will have:

Significant experience in the main contracting market with experience of working on Education, Leisure, and Healthcare schemes between £10 and £40 million.

Experience in Pre-construction (PSCA), BIM, 3D Models, Digital Construction.

What are we looking for?

As an experienced Design Manager, you will have a good understanding of construction techniques and a BSc/HND/HNC, membership of a relevant professional institute i.e. CIOB. Ability to lead and provide a professional, comprehensive, and sustainable design service for the Client at Bid/Delivery stage. Main contractor experience is preferred.

If you are interested in furthering your career in an inclusive and supportive environment, apply to us today.

Equality Statement

Morgan Sindall Construction seeks to recruit the best person for each of our roles, based on merit alone and free from bias. We're committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their background, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

Our aim is to create a workplace built on acceptance, respect, and inclusion, where everyone feels that they belong and can make a meaningful contribution. We encourage applicants regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family, or parental status. Morgan Sindall Construction is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People 'Two Ticks' accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company.

Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK. In the recruitment process, all applicants are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation.