Design Manager

The company

An award winning main contractor (inc. best use of BIM) working on both new build and refurbishment projects across London and the South East requires a Design Coordinator and Design Manager to join their team with a view of making you a Senior Design Manager.

Uniquely the company is run as an Employee Ownership Trust and what that means is that all employees have shares in the company and receive a share of the profits each year via dividend.

It is a company that genuinely sees people as their greatest asset and as such they have picked up numerous awards including:

Contractor of the year

Inspirational leader of the year

Leadership & People Development awards

Employer of the Year

and are recognised as having reached the Platinum standard when it comes to Investors in People. These are just some of reasons why the average length of service is 17 years and the staff turnover rate is just 1.8% PA.

Outstanding career opportunities.

With them you’ll enjoy a progressive, rewarding career as part of a company with a strong family culture and vast in-house and external training opportunities. They are committed to the ethos of 'hiring for attitude and training for skill’ and their various coaching and training programmes ensures that every individual supported to fulfil their full potential.

As a business they are looking to double their turnover over the next 5 years and that in turn means they are looking to recruit people who want to develop and grow with them. The initial goal will be to develop you to being a Senior Design Manager as soon as you are ready and then they will look to develop your people management skills by bringing in people under you.

Type of work:

Project examples include:

Hospitals,

Commercial,

Schools,

High-end residential

Heritage

Health

With an annual turnover circa £45m and with project values typically ranging between £6M and £15M being delivered across 8 frameworks as well as their traditional client base this organisation is expanding and needs people like you to grow with them in order full fill those expansion plans.

While this success is hard won they have invested in hiring people with a passion for construction, who buy into an ethos of teamwork and they have invested heavily in making sure their systems and processes keep pace with an evolving industry. This includes Building Information Modelling and VR technology which has been hugely beneficial, not only in the delivery phase but also in in securing the tenders in the first place.

As well as being involved in both the tender phase and the delivery phase of the project through to handover uniquely you will also have the opportunity to work on their knowledge transfer partnership with the University of Kent and with their inhouse Data Scientist.

This Government sponsored project is looking at how the design of the building has affected the performance of the people using it. EG: in schools are the grades improving, are staff and pupils off sick less often, is the building being utilised more effectively. The objective is to be able demonstrate that better design and better construction techniques leads to significantly better results and therefore a better return on the investment. Combine this data with BIM modelling and they are on a very exciting journey as a company and you can be a part of that, learn a lot and develop your career.

Desired Knowledge and Experience

Experience of working for a main contractor on similar projects in at least the delivery phase would be beneficial but the key point to make here is that what my client looks for first and foremost is a passion for construction, a desire to be a part of a team and a willingness to improve both yourself and what is being delivered.

In return:

Depending on your level of experience you might be given your own project to run from inception or come on board as a very good number two to learn the systems and processes of the business before moving on to run your own project as the Design Manager. The immediate goal then is to get you to ready to be a Senior Design Manager and then to they will look to develop your man management skills by bringing in people under you.

My client pays a market leading base salary along with a car allowance, pension, 34 days holiday (inc the 8 days bank holiday) and as previously mentioned because the company is run as an employee ownership trust everyone that works there is a shareholder in the company and you will receive a share of the profits, the first £3,600 of which is tax free.

What you need to do now

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