Head of Design

4 weeks ago


Crawley, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time

Kier construction have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Design to join our Team based in the Southern Region. Within this role, you can enjoy a bonus, car or car allowance, private healthcare and even more.

**Location**: Based out of one of our Kier offices in the Southern Region

**Contract**: Full Time, Permanent

**Responsibilities**

As a Head of Design, you’ll be working within the Construction Team, managing the design team in the region delivering a wide variety of projects across Healthcare, MOJ, Education, MOD, and commercial arenas, with values that can ranging from £10m to £160m

Your day to day will include:

- Taking ownership of the design function, ensuring the delivery of all aspects of Design Management.
- Direct line management responsibility for three Design sector leads (Healthcare, Residential and Commercial) with indirect responsibility for 30 members of design team staff.
- Ensuring the development of the design function in its entirety, upholding standards, and ensuring collaboration across departments.
- Oversee the development of design team members, empowering them to deliver to the highest standards and quality.

**Who are we looking for?**

This role of Head of Design is great for you if have:

- Experience at a Senior Level in Design Management roles, gained within Tier 1 Construction, Main Contracting environment.
- Detailed knowledge of design process departmental procedures and industry best practice.
- Strong technical acumen with a background in Design, construction management or engineering discipline.
- Knowledge of building control and planning process.
- The ability to lead a team and be part of a team.

**Benefits at Kier**

We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
- a fantastic, matched pension scheme
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- Kier rewards - you will have access to discounted shopping including restaurants, insurance companies, and supermarkets.

**Who is Kier?**

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

**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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

**Closing date: 29 August 2023**

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