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Design Manager

Hoare Lea 🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Manager

The Design Manager will take ownership of design management duties across multiple medium and large-scale projects while supporting project leads on smaller initiatives. They are responsible for facilitating project communications, monitoring costs, managing design risks, and ensuring projects operate effectively within digital spaces.

Responsibilities

  • The Design Manager will take ownership of design management duties across multiple medium and large-scale projects while supporting project leads on smaller initiatives. They are responsible for facilitating project communications, monitoring costs, managing design risks, and ensuring projects operate effectively within digital spaces.

Requirements

  • Candidates must have experience in a proactive design management role within building services or project delivery, along with strong organizational and planning skills. Proficiency in managing project costs, facilitating workshops, and working within quality management procedures is essential for this role.

Benefits

  • 9-day fortnight scheme
  • Private medical cover
  • Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
  • Stock options
  • Annual leave
  • Flexible working
  • Hybrid working
  • Professional development schemes
  • Technical development schemes

Key Skills

Design management Project communication Cost monitoring Risk management Workshop facilitation Quality management procedures Organizational planning Cross‑functional collaboration Leadership Stakeholder coordination Time management Documentation Problem solving Strategic thinking Team mentoring

About Hoare Lea

We are an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers, and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings. Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.

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