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Design Manager – Utilities
October 31, 2022 | Comments Off on Design Manager – Utilities
Location: based from the Sheffield or Leeds office with hybrid remote working available
Contract: Full time, permanent - flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know.
Responsibilities
As a Design Manager, you'll be working within the Electrical and Civils project team on our Yorkshire Water and Severn Trent Water contracts, supporting with the contracts to deliver the design function.
Your day to day will include:
- Supporting the design function throughout the project lifecycle working with the project teams and our design partners to ensure compliant designs are in place
- Supporting the pre-construction team, senior design managers and project managers with project specific requirements on each of the projects
- Reviewing design information and compliance to standards and agreed deliverables and to attend project specific meetings to understand overall deliverables
- With support from Document Controllers, ensuring relevant information is communicated, timescales achieved, and information is uploaded to interna and external systems
This role of Design Manager is great for you if you have:
- Previous experience of working in similar environments and able to work on sites, offices and from home.
- The ability to work on several given projects across the programme of works, with varying work types
- Projects are spread out across the Yorkshire/North Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire area, candidates would be expected to visit sites and support site teams in line with the job role
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
- support in obtaining further qualifications including personal track safety, NVQs and more
- green car scheme
- a free healthcare app giving you access to clinicians and experts on fertility, pregnancy and baby, menopause and men's health
- an additional two days' leave to take part in volunteering activities of your choice
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: 28th November 2022
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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