Design Coordinator

**About The Role**:
**DESIGN COORDINATOR - Permanent Opportunity**
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**Division: Civil Engineering**

**Location: Larne/Belfast - Northern Ireland**

**Benefits: Car Allowance; Subsidised Private Medical Cover, Life Assurance Scheme, Contributory Pension, 35 Days annual leave (Including Public Holidays)**

We are seeking an experienced Design Coordinator, to work alongside our Design Managers, coordinating and resolving any design and technical issues. You may lead and manage multiple projects at any one time, overseeing and contributing to the design process to ensure every aspect of the project runs smoothly with no clashes.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Design Co-Ordinator to take a role with a supportive, successful Tier One Contractor with varying projects, training and career development opportunities alongside a generous salary.

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A full driving licence is essential.

Typical duties will include:

- Managing permanent and temporary works designs for live projects and tenders
- Managing the design process, with a focus on buildability and efficiency, to ensure the optimum solution is arrived at
- Development of Design Deliverables schedule in co-ordination with the designers
- Liaising with tender and project teams to ensure design is developed in line with expectations
- Ensuring a design programme is prepared and agreed with each designer
- Incorporating the design programme into the main programme
- Meeting with designers on a regular basis to ensure the design is developing as planned
- Monitoring progress of the design and works and updating the programme as necessary
- Ensuring the design is managed in accordance with the relevant quality procedures
- Ensuring Principal Designer duties are fulfilled for pre-construction operations under the CDM Regulations
- Providing design input as required for tender submissions
- Liaising with clients, designers, subcontractors, suppliers and third parties as appropriate
- Providing technical input and advice as required for live projects and tenders
- Providing input into programmes where required, including tender, design, construction and Variation / Compensation Event programmes
- Coordinating the design of temporary works and where appropriate design elements of temporary works
- Undertaking a review of design drawings (for both D&B and Construction) and raising technical queries accordingly
- Providing construction methodology input and incorporating in the programme where required
- Managing the flow of information from the design team and advising the project team of any impact on progress and programme
- Providing necessary information to the Procurement Department to enable the procurement of materials and subcontractors
- Preparing handover documents
- Introducing improvements and innovations where appropriate

**Our Commitment to you**:
**_We are proud to say that we are a committed Equal Opportunities Employer and we aim to be the first choice for people from all backgrounds. We seek to promote respect for the individual and equality of opportunities. We believe that everyone should be treated solely on the basis of personal merit and contribution throughout their GRAHAM career journey and not on the value of artificial barriers, prejudices, or preferences._**

**_ A basic disclosure may be requested if security clearance is required by 3rd party clients and a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining a position. Our Access NI/Vetting and Barring Scheme Policy and Policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available upon request._**

**_ GRAHAM reserves the right to carry out checks to ensure the validity of an applicant’s experience and/or qualifications and we expect all applicants to comply with any such requests for information. Failure to do so or evidence of any falsification of information will lead to either removal from the recruitment process or if already in employment potential termination of contract through the company disciplinary procedure._**

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