Role: Design Manager

Location: Newquay

Start: ASAP

Work pattern: full time, Mon - Fri

Working hours: 07:30am - 17:00

Contract duration: 2 years

Daily pay rate: £450 per day via Umbrella

IR35 status: Inside IR35

Travel: Mainly Site based with some hybrid working and visits to customers, suppliers, and regional offices.

We are looking for an experienced Design Manager to work with one of our trusted partners on a large, important, and interesting long-term contract opportunity. The contract is secured and is already on site. You will be required to support the Lead Design Manager on this classified project. The contractor has their own UKSV terminal and so can progress applicants through the security clearance process.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop innovative design solutions to clients' briefs with input from the professional team and subcontractors.
• Develop relationships with clients during early concept stages; manage expectations of the project through regular communication and discussions regarding requirements and specifications.
• Manage the relationship for the whole project team - with the client, subcontractors and professional team resolve any queries.
• Identify and check contents for Contractors Proposals, qualifications list, design information and marketing documentation to accompany the tender.
• Adopt a proactive approach to value engineering throughout the design phase, by keeping up to date with latest construction techniques and legislation.
• Review the design on an ongoing basis, identify potential interface problems & practicalities in construction, and resolve with the design team and specialist subcontractors where appropriate.
• Ensure a smooth handover of the project to the project team, by becoming involved in the initial stages of project management on site, if required.
• Attend Contractor selection interviews, including preparation beforehand.
• Thoroughly appraise tender documentation when received to identify risk, opportunity, insufficient information, inadequate or incorrect design.
• Oversee the subcontract enquiries to subcontractor designed packages.
• Appoint / vet the Design Team. Ensuring terms and conditions of appointment/novation are acceptable, lead designer role is defined and all services we would normally expect are included.
• Manage the design team throughout the tender period and hold design team meetings as appropriate.

Person Specification

Essential

• Must have experience with tier 1 contractors.
• Knowledge of current BREEAM/Passivhaus requirements
• Worked on similar projects e.g., MOD, MOJ, Army, Navy, RAF, government high security facilities.
• Good eye for detail, confidence to challenge drawn information to improve detailing, buildability to create efficiencies.
• NEC contract

Desirable

• Professionally qualified e.g., MCIOB.
• Causeway or similar estimating software.
• Experience of Powerproject Teamplan or similar.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to communicate with a range of people at all levels, both verbally and in writing (essential).
• Adaptable and flexible (essential).
• Ability to plan, organise and project manage (essential).
• Analytical problem solver (essential).
• Client and customer focused to build productive relationships (essential).
• Ability to make reasoned and informed judgements and decisions.

Special Conditions

• Must be prepared to go through a basic DBS, BPSS and SC (security clearance) process. The contractor has their own UKSV terminal and so can progress applicants through the security clearance process.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.