Senior Design Manager
- Wolverhampton
- £70,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide technical advice on proposal documents, presentations and meetings
- Conduct audits and technical reviews of tender information, subcontractor proposals, company proposals and in some cases a secondary project being overseen by the SDM directly
- Monitor and report against compliance requirements during adjudications
- Develop detailed understanding of clients' ideas, expectations and requirements, breaking down technical jargon and ensuring clients' ideas and needs lead to concepts and detailed designs
- Prepare and develop employer requirements and robust contractor proposals
- Identify and evaluate design risk to ensure ease of buildability thereby reducing/eliminating company risk/claims
- Identify any scope gaps thereby mitigating risks and developing value engineering/programme opportunities
- Review subcontractors' proposals to identify and develop value engineering opportunities
- Produce detailed design programmes and design delivery schedule
- Ensure consistency of design management process on schemes, reviewing protocols, reviewing design programmes, design specification, and design scopes
- Contribute to commercial and contractual documentation, negotiations and disputes
- Ensure design delivery is in line with procurement strategy, project cost plan and value engineering targets
- Ensure compliance of design brief and managing change control process
- Recommend and initiate changes to project delivery plans, develop new project management and operating tools and processes
- Ensure effective procurement of design services
- Manage consultant/subcontractor teams ensuring works are delivered according to specification
- Ensure the compilation of detail requirements and responsibilities for technical handover documentation including H&S file, building manuals, Building User Guide
- Continuous development of design management team and self by conducting lessons learnt activities, ensure information from lessons learnt flow into new, similar projects, improving design processes
- Proactively seek business development opportunities through professional networks