Design Manager

Swansea Source: WhatJobs

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Design Manager or Senior Design Manager - South Wales - MOJ Projects

Seeking x 2 recruits, a Design Manager or Senior Design Manager, one to work on a project in Cardiff and the other Swansea, with 3 - 5 years worth of local South Wales work on these schemes alone.

Ideally seeking candidates with previous main contractor employment (Previous MOJ projects are not essential though).

Alternatively, our client may also be open to consider candidates without main contractor experience such as working architecture or design consultancy side if they also already have experience on MOJ or similar projects.

COMPANY:

My client is a reputable Tier 1 building main contractor, with a busy and fast growing workload.

As a result of securing further new projects, this employer is looking to strengthen their team further with the appointment of a Design Manager.

In addition to long term local South Wales regional work, this employer also offers some remote working, competitive salary, plus car / car allowance and also a very competitive holiday allowance. This is a great opportunity for good work / life balance.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design Manager covering all aspects of the design coordination for the business on various projects. Design Coordinator is similar in scope but on smaller projects or as part of a team on a larger scale project
Arranging and chairing the Design team meetings to lead the process with the consultants and sub contract designers, issuing minutes and ensuring the resulting actions are actioned
Collate and manage the contract specifications, drawing and related documents for the construction process
Carrying drawing reviews issuing Comments then ensuring all comments are added accordingly to the design
Carry out technical reviews of any proposed works to ensure contractual and technical compliance.
Prepare and manage the Design and procurement schedule and issue information release schedules to set design target dates
Offer input and design reviews into the procurement process
Providing design support to Project Management teams.
Review and implement Value engineering opportunities
Coordinate with the M&E managers to ensure coordination of the M&E install and commissioning process.
Utilizing specialist consultants coordinate the information and design to ensure BREEAM and Part L compliance are attained as required.
Coordinate the submission of information to satisfy Building control compliance
Coordinate the submission of information to satisfy all planning conditions are discharged
Lead Design review workshop with the client / tenant to ensure understanding and satisfaction with proposed works
Manage the Design Change Proposals for client sign off
Submitting design information to the client team and recording, tracking and closing out any comments and queries that arise
Issue, track and close out any Requests For Information that arise to enable the design to be completed. Assist in the collation of the O&M Health and safety file

REQUIREMENTS:

To be considered for this Design Manager role you must meet the following criteria:

Knowledge of Building Sector.
Previous employment as a Design Co-ordinator, D&B Coordinator, D&B Manager, Design Manager. Site Engineer, Project management or Design Engineering (civil / structural engineers), Architect or Architectural Technician backgrounds also considered.
High level of communication skills.
Relevant industry qualification (Degree / HND / HNC etc), ideally a civil engineering qualification.