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Design Director
November 4, 2021 | Comments Off on Design Director
Project Design Director
Location: Rushden, Yorkshire
Business Unit: Construction - Strategic Projects
Contract: Permanent, full time
Strategic Projects deliver high value, complex building projects. Working nationwide we partner with our Regional businesses to blend their local knowledge with our large-scale expertise. From urban regeneration and commercial developments, through to cutting-edge laboratories and large-scale public sector facilities, we build and renew spaces for healing, learning, trading, protecting and discovering.
Kier Strategic Projects is currently seeking a Project Design Director to join their team for delivery of major projects (£150m +) within the Custodial, Defence, Aviation, Science and Commercial Sectors.
Key Responsibilities
The Project Design Director will head up the design function on a major project, with leadership responsibility for the Kier design manager team and act as the first point of contact with the design delivery partners at leadership level (Professional Team). The Project Design Director will ensure the design is delivered on time and to the required accepted standard, lead on the approval and change process in line with our contractual requirements and ensure that the design is delivered first time to the agreed budget, design to cost.
What do we need from you?
As you will be leading at a strategic level on complex and high value projects, we will be looking for extensive history on similar profile projects of £150m+. You will need to be able to demonstrate our core values of collaborative, trusted and focused on your working methods, ethics and approach. To be successful, you will be client focused, results driven, commercially minded, a motivational leader with healthy and safety at the heart of everything you do.
What will you receive?
You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a company car or allowance, private healthcare, Eligibility to a discretionary bonus plan, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday) together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan). To find out more about the rewards and benefits at Kier, .
Flexible/Agile Working
At Kier we believe that - wherever we can, whether office or site-based - we should embrace an agile/flexible approach to working. We are proud to offer our employees the opportunity, where we can, to do this. Please don't hesitate to ask during the recruitment process around agile working and flexibility - We'll do our best to support you.
Make the journey. Leave a legacy.
Being part of Kier means living our values of being Collaborative, Trusted and Focused. We all have the potential to shape our world, and it's through these values that we will leave a lasting legacy. Bring your talent and ambition to Kier and you will be given the scope and opportunity to invest in your own future, to build your expertise and contribute to a rich and diverse culture.
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all of our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. If you'd like to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Kier, you can contact the team by emailing
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these.
Closing Date: 4th December 2021
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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