Design Lead

Kier Group is seeking several Senior Design Managers or Design Leads to join its Strategic Projects division, focusing on the Healthcare and Science sectors. These full-time, permanent positions are based in the Eastern Region, with flexible locations across Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Home Counties. The role involves managing design teams, ensuring compliance with standards, and producing design-related documentation. Candidates should have experience in delivering complex design projects, particularly in the contractor role, and familiarity with site procedures. Kier is committed to diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from those with transferable skills.

Kier Group are looking for a number of Senior Design Manager’s or Design Lead’s to join our Strategic Projects business at Kier.

We deliver major projects across the Custodial, Life Science, Defence and Healthcare sectors.

These positions will have a specific focus on the Healthcare and Science sectors.

Location: Eastern Region. Locations can be flexible across Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Home Counties regions

Hours: Full time, permanent. Flexible working options are available.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Design Manager you’ll be working within the Design team, Leading the team on a major project.

Your day to day will include:

Management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme and deliverable schedule. 

Ensuring that our appointed design consultants carry out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns to ensure compliance with standards and brief. 

Design input at both preconstruction and construction stage of projects 

The production of design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules. 

Attending/chair necessary meetings and workshops with internal and external stakeholders. 

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if you have:

Experience of delivering high value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective. 

Ability to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads. 

Experience of site/contract procedures would be an advantage 

Any exposure to Healthcare, Hospital or Science projects would be advantageous.

We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We’re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. .

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. .

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier #LI-AS2