Design Lead

February 7, 2023 | Comments Off on Design Lead

We're looking for a Design Lead to join our Build team. Within this role, you can enjoy private healthcare, a fantastic matched pension scheme, competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, and even more.

Location: London and South

Contract: Full time, permanent

Responsibilities

As a Design Lead, you'll be working with Senior Digital Construction Manager and Building Services Leads to ensure that the design delivery process and Kier internal responsibilities across all disciplines is fully coordinated

Your day to day will include:

  • Provide subject matter specific lead to the design teams (Healthcare/Public/Residential/Commercial), and ensure that common best practice standards are applied across the separate functions to Pre - Con/Design/Delivery/Aftercare stages for the projects within London & South.
  • Line manage SDM/DM/ADMs as appropriate, directly on tenders and indirectly on live projects in connection with the projects PM. Acting as the career manager / mentor for your teams under your remit both in your specialism and with the Technical Director and other Design Leads for general development
  • Forward plan for the full tender / construction process to deliver the project's design on time.
Who are we looking for?

This role of Design Lead is great for you if have:

  • Proven experience in a similar role and be an excellent communicator and have a clear history of strong bid/proposal writing experience
  • You should have experience of delivering BIM level 2 projects, including COBie data, LoDM, federating models and model clash detection.
  • We are seeking an individual who is educated to degree level, or equivalent experience
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

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.

Benefits at Kier

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 huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
  • Kier's Green Car Scheme
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: https://www.kier.co.uk/reward-and-benefits-summary-m1-m2-grades/

Who is Kier?

We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: https://www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

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: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Closing date: 7 March 2023

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early

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