Design Manager

3 weeks ago

Salford, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time
Design ManagerWe're looking for a Design Manager to join our Kier Transportation Rail team and assist on a number or rail related projects across the Northwest.
 
Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment.
 
Location: Greater Manchester and surrounding areas- remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required
Business Area: Kier Transportation, Rail
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
 
What will your responsibilities be?
As a Design Manager, you'll be working within the Kier Rail team, supporting on a wide range of projects across the Northwest from £10M - £200M in value within the rail industry. The Design Manager will take a key role in ensuring design programmes and quality standards are met through the effective management of external and internal designers, stakeholders, and client teams.
Your day to day will include:
Responsible for managing design consultant appointments and input into supply chain contracts. Ensure that appointed design consultants carry out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns to ensure compliance with standards and brief.
Production of design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules.
Manage design development and optioneering providing a strong focus on buildability between construction and design teams to ensure most efficient and effective solutions are selected. Engage with specialist suppliers both at tender and contract stage.
Contribute to and record design decisions including decisions made to embed Safe by Design, Buildability, Value Engineering, Whole life Cost, Sustainability. Ensure best practice and lessons learned are recorded.
Provide input to and managing output from the change control process relating to the design and design supply chain. Including leading value engineering on projects.
 
What are we looking for?
Implement sustainable best practice in Design.
Assist Commercial teams in appointing professional engineering and design services. Provide ongoing technical management of the appointed design teams; proactively monitor and control design budgets.
Input to project programme by regularly assessing design delivery progress, identifying exceptions, and aligning the forecast design delivery strategy to project milestones.
Support the project commercial team in securing maximum sustainable value from contracts through value engineering and innovation and in settling subcontract accounts fairly.
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
 
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. .
 
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. .
 
We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier
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