Design Manager
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary :
Building a sustainable tomorrow
Register your interest for upcoming Design Manager vacancies, working for our Western Construction Business. The role will operate out of either regional offices in Bristol or Caerphilly.
Your mission
• Demonstrating effective leadership qualities to encourage effective design team and construction team co-ordination and collaborative working to deliver the Project goals.
• Embracing Digital Construction to enable a digital build-before-we-build team approach.
• Understanding the project requirements including Client brief & business processes, and Employer Requirements.
• Assist with bid writing, review and preparation of tender presentations and submission.
• Identifying, managing and mitigating design risk as part of the team.
• Identifying opportunities to improve the design by considering how to improve safety, incorporate buildability, improve quality, reduce defects, and provide best value compliant solutions.
• Working with the tender team to develop the Contractor's Proposal document.
• Reporting to the Project Manager, take responsibility for the management of the design through preconstruction and construction stages in line with company procedures; including managing the design development process and the interface with specialist sub-contract design.
• Arrange design audits/compliance checks if required.
• Ensuring designs are developed in line with the commercial objectives and contract requirements.
• Preparing and reach agreement to the Design Management Plan and BIM Execution Plan.
• Be aware of / provide input into, designer appointment / novation; roles and responsibilities (including a Design Interface Responsibility Matrix), scope of services, fee and fee drawdown.
• In conjunction with the Project team, develop and reach agreement on the design programme and Information deliverables, ensuring this is fully co-ordinated with the project procurement and construction programmes, monitoring performance and resources to achieve milestones.
• Review safety risks checking they are identified, eliminated, reduced or controlled in line with CDM requirements. Ensure designers are carrying out their duties, and where required, support the role of Principal Designer in line with CDM 2015.
• Co-ordinate the whole design process, managing change, information approvals and working closely with the client, employer's representatives, design team and legislative bodies.
• Organising and chairing design co-ordination and design progress meetings with the design team and supply chain, ensuring that design risk assessments are produced. Prepare minutes, notes and reports as required to ensure effective communication and accurate records are maintained.
• Managing the document control process, supported by a document controller.
• Maintaining a professional approach with clients and their professional teams, sub-contractors and suppliers
Who are we looking for?
With a proven record of managing all design aspects of a project from tender through to completion, you will be expected to work effectively as an integral member of the bid and construction delivery team, following our golden rules and values of; Proactive ownership, Open Collaboration, Scalable learning and Predictable performance.
• Strong leadership and management skills, with a positive and collaborative approach.
• Enthusiastic team player, able to listen, understand, engage and motivate, and with confidence to make decisions when required.
• A desire to constantly learn, improve and share knowledge and experience.
• A wide and varied experience of the construction process through concept and detailed design to practical construction phase and handover. An understanding of the planning and technical skills necessary to undertake the role.
• A good commercial understanding of contracts, procurement routes and risk management.
• Good collaborative planning skills.
• Thorough understanding of 3D design and BIM, with a desire to drive improvements and benefits through embracing digital construction.
• Excellent communication skills, both at the personal level and more formal reporting level.
• Recognised degree qualification or equivalent and CIOB or equivalent is preferable.
• Practical experience of harmonising design and quality requirements with buildability and a strong desire to problem solve are essential.
What's in it for you?
In addition to an attractive salary we offer a significant benefits package including an electric car or car allowance, bonus scheme, contributory pension, BUPA, life assurance, 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), gym subsidy, BAM social club membership and many more exciting benefits.
Who are we?
People are at the heart of what we do at BAM. We recognise that creating a diverse and inclusive environment that nurtures our employees and encourages them to bring their best and whole self to work is crucial. We're on an exciting journey to get us there by recruiting the very best talent to join us regardless of race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.
Be you! Join us today, so we can achieve amazing things together and build a sustainable tomorrow
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