Senior Design Manager - Architect - MoDefence - Manchester

The Opportunity

An opportunity exists for a Senior Design Manager to join the team on a portfolio of Ministry of Defence projects in the Manchester area. A Senior Design Manager leads the delivery of effective design across multiple projects or a single large-scale project. They focus on and lead the pre-construction phase design processes, liaising with the client, the design team, the in-house bid team, and the operations team. On live projects, they implement and lead the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework to allow risks to be reduced.

The Senior Design Manager is a senior Design Job Family and Technical Function member, which ensures technical excellence, assurance, and performance across all projects and opportunities, from pre-project, early engagement, and work winning to detailed delivery. All designers are part of the Engineering Enterprise, which aims to maximise and realise the potential of design to increase project certainty.

Role Responsibilities

Providing a focus for and leading the pre-construction phase briefing and design processes

Leading design management procedures, providing a functional link between the commercial and construction teams and the designers throughout the project life

Implementing processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework

Implementing agreed processes for the production, control, and distribution of design information at different project stages

Ensuring regular progress reporting of the design

Ensuring design information is thoroughly reviewed for buildability, safety, and maintainability, ''completeness and compliance'' and technical suitability before use

Assisting the Design Leader in promoting innovation in design management, methodology, processes, and practices

Assisting the Design Leader in promoting the application and adoption of the company''s vision and values in all design management activities

Technical Capabilities

Creating and owning the design brief

Design optimisation

Design for Manufacture and Assembly

Managing consultancies

Information and Change Control

Design compliance

Required Skills and Experience

First degree in Architecture or Engineering discipline. Other appropriate construction-related qualifications plus design-related experience

Approximately ten years experience

Sector specialism as well as deep and broad experience managing the design of construction or building services projects

Likely to have international experience

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