Senior Design Manager

5 days ago


Chester Business Park, United Kingdom Watkin Jones Full time

Are you an experienced Design Manager looking for a new challenge? Do you want to work for a company that has ambitions to be the leading developer and manager of residential for rent in the UK?

Sound interesting?

Due to continued growth and a strong pipeline of work, we're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our team. The post holder is responsible for managing the design and development process on multiple projects across the UK, on schemes with values rangingfrom £20m - £100m ensuring they meet the customer requirements as well as those of the business.

The role offers agile working arrangements that allow you to vary the timing or location of their work for the mutual benefit of the individual and the organisation
As a Senior Design Manager we’d be looking for you to deliver on:
Developing comprehensive and quality designs whilst working within the commercial parameters of the project budget.
Strivingto exceed the customers' expectations by offering innovative and added value ideas.
Ensuring designs are energy efficient with mínimal environmental impact.
Ensuring designs are developed to ensure a safe working environment complying with H&S regulations and future maintenance requirements.

Reporting to the Technical Director, you'll be providing advice and guidance on the "buildability" of the design proposals to the design and construction teams on all packages, with close liaison with the commercial teams and M&E teams too. You'll be expectedto clearly communicate expectations for design deliverables with designers and the wider project team while tracking and reporting progress against the design deliverables programme/schedule.

**About You**

You will hold a NVQ Level 4, HND, Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline or have significant relevant high-rise experience. With excellent communication, time management and persuasion skills, you will have good knowledge of planning,building, architecture, and engineering and have a strong working knowledge of AutoCAD and Adobe Acrobat.

You'll need to be able to demonstrate experience of working to tight schedules with competing priorities to deliver projects on time and in line with the design specifications / client requirements.

**About Us**

Watkin Jones Group is the UK’s leading developer, builder and manager of residential for rent homes, with 52,000+ homes developed and in-build across 135 schemes. Our operating arm, Fresh, manages over 20,000 units across 64 schemes, reflecting approximately£1.7bn of assets under management, giving us unique and unrivalled insight into what tenants and investors desire.

Our company was established in 1791 and has been building homes since 1927. More recently, we listed on the AIM market in 2016 with a market cap of £255m (current market cap c. £550m). In FY2020 we generated gross revenue of £354m and a Gross Profit of £75.9m.Our position in the market is based on a ‘capital light’ model, where we typically work with institutional forward funders.

Watkin Jones’ success to date has been based on our emphasis on building relationships of trust, our customer focus, and our forward-thinking structure. Our intention is to create the future of living, which to us means high quality rental homes, communityfocus and sustainably driven development.

**Why Join Us?**

In return for your hard work and dedication, we can offer you some extensive benefits which include 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing after 2 years’ service by 1 day up to a max of 29 days per annum), discretionary annual bonus, corporatesummer party, health cash plan - medicash, death in service benefit and a contributory company pension.


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