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Senior Design Manager
March 28, 2023 | Comments Off on Senior Design Manager
Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference. Connecting roads, connecting people.
Location: Birmingham - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required
Contract: Permanent - Fulltime (flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know)
Salary: £65k - £79k FTE
Responsibilities
As a Senior Design Manager, you'll be Supporting teams across the region to deliver the requirements of the design contracts for National Highways Major Projects, National Highways SDF, TfL, Local Authorities and South Wales Trunk Road Agency, whilst working safely and in accordance with regional and contractual processes.
Your day to day will include:
- Line management of design team leaders
- Managing and being responsible for the delivery of technical design outputs of projects or project portfolios to the meet client's briefs within time and budget
- Complying with national UK design standards, procedures and requirements
- Contributing to Value Management / Engineering to support Team Leaders and Project Managers in ensuring that schemes are delivered with innovation
- Carrying out the checking and certifying of design deliverables (including drawings specifications, professional skill and care certificates, reports and contract documents, and authorising where appropriate
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if are:
- Chartered member of a relevant professional institution (MICE / MIStructE or equivalent).
- Demonstrable broad in-depth experience in inspection, assessment, design and construction of highway structures to UK standards and in the management of teams delivering such work.
- Detailed understanding of health and safety management and the requirements of legislation.
- Must be computer literate. Ability to work without supervision essential, you will have the drive and determination to meet targets.
- Valid UK driving licence
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.
We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance, and more
- a fantastic matched pension scheme
- life Assurance
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- green car scheme
Who is Kier?
As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do.
We are collaborative, trusted and focused, and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.
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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives. You can see more about our D&I action plan here.
Closing Date: 25 April 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
Closing Date:
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.