Senior Design Lead

2 weeks ago


Eastleigh, Hampshire, United Kingdom Wates Full time

Wates is seeking a highly skilled Senior Design Lead to drive quality outcomes and foster innovation in our Residential team. As a key member of our Southern region, you will focus on delivering exceptional design solutions in the Dorset and Hampshire areas.

This is an excellent opportunity to progress your career as part of a talented, diverse, and supportive team. Ideally suited to an individual with a proven background in delivering residential projects, you will have the chance to elevate and innovate within the industry.

About the Role

Our Senior Design Leads play a vital role in driving quality outcomes, enhancing buildability, and fostering innovation. They work collaboratively with our customers and industry specialists to ensure that the design develops in accordance with the brief, with a firm focus on added value, compliance, commercial viability, and best practice.

As our Senior Design Lead, you will:

  • Work on a project depending upon technical complexity and size, either as the sole design manager or part of a larger design team.
  • Collaborate with our bid and preconstruction team and development managers on development and contracting opportunities, working to develop and grow our business and region.
  • Lead the design programme and information required schedule, to satisfy design, procurement, and construction requirements.
  • Review the current design of the project or package and undertake detailed risk and opportunities appraisal to mitigating risk, enhance buildability and add value prior to construction phase.
  • Work closely with the Commercial and Operations Teams to ensure all design deliverables are compliant, fully coordinated, buildable and within budget.
  • You will organise, lead and contribute to technical workshops, value management exercises as required to align expectations in this respect.
  • Ensure compliance with all key stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of key technical legislation and guidance in order to deliver a compliant design solution.
  • Ensure the design has been reviewed and verified to achieve compliance and mitigate Health and Safety, design and buildability issues prior to construction and identify key risks and opportunities at each stage of the design and delivery process.

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary & profit share scheme
  • Flexible working
  • Car Allowance / Company Car
  • Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
  • Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers' contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more...
  • One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the WATES Group)
  • Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.


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