Design Manager
Location: Welwyn Garden City
Talented people are the key to our success
About us:
Would you like to work for a progressive and ambitious company which is also one of the most successful within the UK construction and infrastructure industry?
Morgan Sindall provides national construction and infrastructure services to private and public sector customers across a comprehensive range of markets. We aim to create great results for our customers, partners and ourselves.
Opportunity:
We have a fantastic opportunity within our Construction business for an ambitious and talented Design Manager.
The successful candidate will be joining the existing team of passionate and dedicated managers.
As a Design Manager you will manage the design aspects of tenders and projects in progress.
We are looking for people who share our passion for the project at hand whilst also being able to work within a fun and hardworking team environment.
We are currently working on large and exciting projects such as the following: https://www.morgansindall.com/news/morgan-sindall-group-agrees-%C2%A32bn-property-delivery-joint-venture
Responsibilities:
- 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 / suppliers at bid and delivery stages
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ensure the design process recognises compliancy issues, current legislation, standards and codes of practice
- Maintain design within cost restraints fully incorporating customers’ requirements
- Coordinate change control system and ensure changes are accounted for, authorised and implemented, as necessary, with the project manager and client
Requirements:
- HND/HNC/Degree
- Membership of 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
- Experience on key sectors – Education, Health, Manufacturing, Industrial, Leisure, Transport
- Experience on both single stage tenders and preferred terms work procurement routes
- Experience on bidding and winning work
- Main Contractor experience
Morgan Sindall Construction London and Home Counties
With a passion to serve customers we have developed a professional, understated approach, where our people in London and Home Counties are encouraged and rewarded to work as a team to achieve Perfect Delivery.
The success of this strategy to: find – win – deliver – repeat has yielded a healthy forward order book, giving us the stability to fully focus on strengthening our long-term work winning capability in our primary sectors of: education, public sector frameworks, civic buildings, investment linked opportunities and healthcare.
Morgan Sindall 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.