Senior Design Manager

Senior Design Manager

Hertfordshire

£85k-£95k + Package

Opportunity for a Senior Design Manager with a background of Main Contracting and experience of managing residential led schemes to join a family owned residential contractor in the Hertfordshire area. The business have a great mentality towards work and the employees, giving great opportunities to work on interesting projects.

Key Deliverables

• Provide technical advice on proposal documents, presentations and meetings


• Conduct audits and technical reviews of tender information, subcontractor proposals, company proposals and in some cases a secondary project being overseen by the SDM directly


• Monitor and report against compliance requirements during adjudications


• Develop detailed understanding of clients’ ideas, expectations and requirements, breaking down technical jargon and ensuring clients’ ideas and needs lead to concepts and detailed designs


• Prepare and develop employer requirements and robust contractor proposals


• Identify and evaluate design risk to ensure ease of buildability thereby reducing/eliminating company risk/claims


• Identify any scope gaps thereby mitigating risks and developing value engineering/programme opportunities


• Review subcontractors’ proposals to identify and develop value engineering opportunities


• Produce detailed design programmes and design delivery schedule


• Ensure consistency of design management process on schemes, reviewing protocols, reviewing design programmes, design specification, and design scopes


• Contribute to commercial and contractual documentation, negotiations and disputes


• Ensure design delivery is in line with procurement strategy, project cost plan and value engineering targets


• Ensure compliance of design brief and managing change control process


• Recommend and initiate changes to project delivery plans, develop new project management and operating tools and processes


• Ensure effective procurement of design services


• Manage consultant/subcontractor teams ensuring works are delivered according to specification


• Ensure the compilation of detail requirements and responsibilities for technical handover documentation including H&S file, building manuals, Building User Guide


• Continuous development of design management team and self by conducting lessons learnt activities, ensure information from lessons learnt flow into new, similar projects, improving design processes


• Proactively seek business development opportunities through professional networks