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Design Manager

Fawkes & Reece 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Full-time Manager

The Design Manager will oversee the design process, coordinate consultants and subcontractors, and drive technical solutions for a major high-rise development. They are responsible for ensuring all designs are fully coordinated and deliverable on-site from pre-construction through to completion.

Responsibilities

  • The Design Manager will oversee the design process, coordinate consultants and subcontractors, and drive technical solutions for a major high-rise development. They are responsible for ensuring all designs are fully coordinated and deliverable on-site from pre-construction through to completion.

Requirements

  • The ideal candidate must have extensive experience in design management with a main contractor on large-scale, high-value projects. Strong expertise in RC frame construction, structural coordination, and complex London-based schemes is essential.

Key Skills

Design management Coordination of consultants Sub‑contractor management Technical solution development High‑rise development design RC frame construction expertise Structural coordination Construction documentation Stakeholder management Project delivery On‑site design coordination AutoCAD Revit BIM Leadership Communication Problem solving Risk management Schedule management Quality control Collaboration with engineering teams Regulatory compliance Construction standards knowledge

About Fawkes & Reece

Fawkes & Reece has been providing staffing and recruitment services to the leading organisations across construction and the built environment since 2001. For over 25 years, we've acted as both a partner and sole supplier for a portfolio of the most respected and leading companies in the UK. Our specialist consultants are professionally trained and skilled to provide permanent, search and selection, and freelance recruitment services across: Building | Civil Engineering | Rail | Building Services | Interior Fit Out | House Building | Social Housing and New Homes Fawkes & Reece is a business that operates with core values: Ambition | Invest | Care | Deliver | Succeed These values are integral in enabling us to build careers for our candidates as well as our own staff and in helping our clients achieve their staffing and recruitment goals. We partner with a select group of leading clients across the technical sectors we specialise in, supported by teams who are well trained, REC‑qu

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