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Senior Design Manager

Skanska 🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom

Full-time Senior

The Senior Design Manager will lead the design process and team from the initial bid and PCSA stages through to construction, completion, and handover. They are responsible for managing design contracts, ensuring compliance with cost, time, quality, and safety standards, and overseeing the delivery of design deliverables.

Responsibilities

  • The Senior Design Manager will lead the design process and team from the initial bid and PCSA stages through to construction, completion, and handover. They are responsible for managing design contracts, ensuring compliance with cost, time, quality, and safety standards, and overseeing the delivery of design deliverables.

Requirements

  • Candidates must have extensive experience in delivering large-scale construction projects, specifically within the healthcare sector, and possess a professional architectural or engineering qualification. Demonstrable expertise in various contract forms such as D&B, JCT, and NEC is required, along with a proven track record in managing design across the full project lifecycle.

Benefits

  • 24/7 Digital GP service
  • Financial wellbeing support
  • Employee assistance program
  • Professional development
  • Enhanced family benefits
  • Maternity leave
  • Paternity leave
  • Dependants leave
  • Parental bereavement leave

Key Skills

Project Management Design Leadership Construction Management Architectural Design Engineering Coordination Contract Management (D&B, JCT, NEC) Cost Management Schedule Management Quality Assurance Safety Management Stakeholder Management Bid Management PCSA Process Team Leadership Design Deliverables Oversight Risk Management Regulatory Compliance Cross‑functional Collaboration Strategic Planning

About Skanska

We are one of the world’s largest construction and project development companies, with 2025 revenue totaling SEK 179 billion. With a legacy spanning nearly 140 years, we combine international scale with local expertise to deliver sustainable, innovative solutions. Operating in select markets throughout the Nordics, Europe and the United States, we use knowledge and foresight to shape the way people live, work and connect. Together with our customers and our 26,000 teammates, we create innovative and sustainable solutions that support healthy living beyond our lifetime. Our heritage: building for a better society since 1887 Founded in Sweden as a maker of concrete products, we have always been driven to innovate and build for the benefit of people and society. Today we develop, design and build everything from healthy and efficient office buildings with strong sustainability values, to smart homes and resilient infrastructure. Innovating together with customers and partners, we h

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