Senior Design Manager - Birmingham

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About the role

Shape your career in construction with some of the best in the business. When it comes to design management challenges, we pool our creativity and ambition to make big things happen. Our size and stability mean there's always something new to get stuck into, exciting design and engineering career opportunities to explore, and invaluable experiences to grow from. Join us as a Senior Design Manager and open up your future to more.

To support the implementation and manage the control of the design process to ensure that design and procurement are delivered to meet Client / Employer's Requirements / Contractor's Proposals requirements and are in line with agreed cost parameters.

This role is within an established project team delivering a programme of improvement works to be implemented within live healthcare facilities. The scope of the works to be undertaken includes the design, integration, and co-ordination of a new fire suppression system throughout an acute hospital with subsequent modifications to the building fabric. A Senior Design Manager is required to support the Site Delivery teams in the development and certification of compliant and buildable design solutions responding to the numerous site constraints.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate good problem solving, organisational and communication skills which are necessary to work in this challenging environment. Experience of working within a live healthcare environment is desirable, as is a knowledge of NHS health building notes (HBN) and health technical memoranda (HTM). Knowledge of Passive and Active Fire Protection measures is also desirable.

The role is site based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Design Manager you will:

• Work with customers, design consultants, engineers, construction teams, and other experts to shape designs that our clients want and our society needs
• Join at the very beginning to make sure every design is fit for purpose and buildable
• Minimise risk and maximise impact by considering every design from every angle
• Recommend the best way forward on highly complex proposed builds by visualising how designs will look and work during and after construction
• Make big calls on how best to manage the design and build - from influencing who works on it and testing their competency, to coordinating teams as things progress
• Harness the power of digital more than ever before (we can support with training)
• Develop well-rounded skills and a fascinating career across our growing business.

Who we're looking for

Everything we do relies on our Senior Design Managers. It's a role with impact. And it calls for:

• People with ambition who want to grow their talents and potential with us
• Natural problem-solvers
• Logical thinkers who can see the bigger picture as well as the technical detail
• The vision to look towards how a build concept could eventually operate in reality
• An appreciation of construction, engineering and materials - although we welcome other backgrounds and offer training and mentoring on the technical aspects
• Someone who can comfortably build relationships and liaise with multi-skilled teams.

Why work for us

If you're inspired by the chance to grow like never before through meaningful work, join us as a Senior Design Manager. As well as benefits that include a share plan, pension, recognition scheme, employee assistance programme and generous annual and volunteering leave, you'll be safe, seen, heard and respected throughout your career with us. Apply now.

About us

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. Our Smart Working policy enables employees to work flexibly where operationally possible and we would be happy to explore this with you.

To find out more about our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, visit our website at https://www.balfourbeatty.com/how-we-work/diversity-and-inclusion/

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with disabled people and people with long-term health conditions, to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information about Disability Confident can be found at https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/