Design Manager
6 days ago
We are seeking a highly skilled Design Manager to join our team at Walter Lilly. As a Design Manager, you will play a crucial role in managing the design process to deliver technically compliant, cost-efficient, and coordinated design packages.
Key Responsibilities- Manage the design process to deliver technically compliant, cost-efficient, and coordinated design packages.
- Bring together specialist subcontractors, design team members, and consultants to create a collaborative environment to deliver design information that meets our customer's requirements and conforms to building regulations.
- Chair design workshops and coordinate complex design packages.
- Validate and interrogate design details, adding value to the construction process.
- Provide expert guidance and technical support to clients and project teams to identify and mitigate risks, ensuring compliance with all statutory, legal, and planning requirements.
- Prepare, implement, and update trackers to monitor the quality, compliance, timely production, and progress of consultants and subcontractor design at all project stages.
- Follow best practice principles through all project stages.
- Undertake design assurance and buildability reviews to ensure designing deliverables are met and alignment with commercial strategy is maintained.
- Monitor risk, convert opportunities, and record, and assess the impact of change on the project.
- Review the selection and scope of suitable subcontractors for specialist design packages.
- Ensure accurate and comprehensive records are maintained.
- Manage the production of handover manuals.
- Work with document controllers to set up and manage the project's common data environment.
- Oversee sample, mock-up, and control sample production and approval, including occasional supplier visits and material selection trips.
- Proven background of experience in managing the design process on complex projects.
- Experience with managing Design and Build or Contractor Design Portions.
- Able to attend projects in Central London with occasional travel outside.
- An appetite for Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
- A track record of successfully managing people and process.
- Deep understanding of planning procedures, building regulations, listed building consents, CDM Regulations, and other third-party requirements.
- Knowledge of the commonly used provisions of the Standard Forms of Contract.
- The ability to robustly interpret and interrogate drawings and technical specifications.
- High attention to detail and quality.
- Excellent time management and problem-solving ability.
- Understanding of software such as Viewpoint, Revit, BIM Collab, or Navisworks.
- A relevant professional qualification or working towards (MCIOB, RIBA, RICS).
- Appropriate CSCS card.
- A full valid driving license (desirable).
- A construction-related degree (desirable).
Walter Lilly is a premier provider of construction and maintenance services for luxurious residential homes, iconic landmark and heritage buildings, and state-of-the-art science and higher education facilities across London and the Home Counties. We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported to reach their full potential.
We strive to create a culture where employees can bring themselves to work in line with our core values of integrity, honesty, and fairness. We are passionate about improving the local communities in which we operate, targeting tangible social value outcomes that make a meaningful difference to everyday lives and the environment.
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