Design Manager
Description
Better places, thriving communities.
Design Manager
What you'll be doing
- Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design activity across projects from early concept through RIBA Stages 0–4.
- Manage and develop our designers and provide technical support, challenge and due diligence to Project Managers and site teams.
- Oversee Principal Designer activities, ensuring design risks and CDM requirements are effectively managed.
- Facilitate collaborative design sprints, helping accelerate schemes to a point where scope, risk and costs can be understood and assured.
- Provide design governance through construction, helping protect design intent while finding practical, safe and commercially effective solutions.
An opportunity to build something
The projects
- Mechanical and electrical installations
- Civil engineering and infrastructure works
- Building and facility refurbishments
- Building fabric and fit-out projects
- Manufacturing facility upgrades and new-build construction
What we're looking for
- Experience leading design activity, multidisciplinary teams or a small technical team within construction, engineering or building services.
- Strong knowledge of the RIBA Plan of Work and a good understanding of the design-to-construction lifecycle.
- Knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015 and the Principal Designer role, including design risk and Pre-Construction Information.
- Chartered status within a relevant professional discipline.
- The confidence to challenge, influence and make sound technical decisions with clients, consultants, contractors and internal teams.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we'll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days' holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there's a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
Join our Mitie Team.
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