Design Manager

My client a main contractor based just outside of Norwich are seeking to strengthen their award winning and successful team by recruiting a Design Manager to manage the pre construction stage of design management contributing positively to winning new work. for

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the pre-construction design process in line.
• Provide design management support to the Preconstruction team ensuring all design matters are compliant with relevant legislation, tender brief, and contract requirements
• Analyse Tender documents and identify required design responses
• Engage with the pre-construction team to agree scope of design requirements and allocation of responsibilities
• Investigate and recommend alternative and innovative solutions with change impact assessment
• Chair and record design workshops
• Assess design and delivery risks and recommend mitigation
• Engage with the supply chain to verify design issues and review tender offers.
• Support and contribute to the tender quality submission with written responses to tender questions
• Provide design input to the tender submission whole life programme.
• Support digital aspects of tender evaluation and submission
• Provide a technical handover pack for the delivery team

Key Skills & Knowledge

• Contractually aware
• Ability to develop and implement design management processes
• Able to work to tight deadlines, organise and plan own workload
• IT skills
• Capable of defining design responsibilities and scopes of work for design consultants and subcontractors
• Demonstrable skills in reviewing tender designs
• Creating design programmes to be included in Master programme identifying relevant design milestones and deliverables
• Able to assess CDM / Safety and design risks and identify mitigation strategies
• Able to write comprehensive Contractors Proposals and tender question responses for inclusion in tender submissions
• Innovation experience of differing systems and ability to adapt ideas. Research new technical solutions.
• Value engineering able to lead design reviews and provide comprehensive assessment of options
• Communicates with colleagues and clients in a warm and persuasive way both formally and informally. Alters style and manner to suit audience.
• Plans ahead, prioritise tasks and monitors progress against plan, making alterations where necessary and organises required resources.
• Considers potential problems in advance and identifies opportunities and threats through analysing trends. Guides others in implementing solutions.
• Ensures that all viewpoints are considered and gains agreement on mutually acceptable outcomes, whilst maintaining the interests of the business.
• Assesses risk and consequence before making a judgement on available evidence and ensures that final decision is implemented.
• Encourages, supports and values contributions of others, shares credit and responds positively to requests for help. Shares knowledge.
• Recognised by others as having useful skills and knowledge, which are readily shared. Keeps up to date with new aspects of job role