Design Manager

Kier is seeking a Design Manager for their Construction team in London, with flexible working hours available. The role involves managing and delivering design information across various sectors, including Commercial, Public Sector, and Health. Responsibilities include overseeing design programmes, scopes, and schedules, along with facilitating meetings with stakeholders. The ideal candidate should have experience in high-value design work from a main contractor's perspective and the ability to manage workloads effectively. Kier values diversity and inclusion, encouraging applicants with transferable skills to apply, even if they do not meet all the criteria.

We’re looking for a Design Manager to join our Construction team based in London.

Location: London/Loughton, Essex – with flexible work times considered

Contract: Full Time, Permanent 

What will you be responsible for?

As a Design Manager you’ll be working within the Design team, supporting them on projects across a variety of different sectors including Commercial, Public Sector and Health. 

Your day to day will include:

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

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. You can see more information of benefits here.

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. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier