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Senior Design Manager

Watkin Jones Group 🇬🇧 Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Senior

You will coordinate design deliverables across multiple disciplines and manage the design process from concept through to delivery. This involves ensuring compliance with scopes, identifying value engineering opportunities, and supporting sustainability initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • You will coordinate design deliverables across multiple disciplines and manage the design process from concept through to delivery. This involves ensuring compliance with scopes, identifying value engineering opportunities, and supporting sustainability initiatives.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have experience in a design or technical coordination role with strong communication and stakeholder management skills. A solid understanding of construction methods, commercial drivers, and design processes is essential.

Benefits

  • Annual leave
  • Agile working arrangements
  • Discounted gym memberships
  • Wellbeing programme
  • Confidential wellbeing platform
  • Discretionary annual bonus
  • Health cash plan
  • Life insurance
  • Company car
  • Car allowance
  • Shopping discounts
  • Contributory pension scheme

Key Skills

Design coordination Multi‑discipline collaboration Value engineering Sustainability initiatives Construction methods knowledge Commercial drivers awareness Stakeholder communication Project management Compliance monitoring Problem solving Leadership Negotiation Risk management Team collaboration Technical documentation

About Watkin Jones Group

At Watkin Jones we’re passionate about creating and managing great places to live. We’re a leading UK developer of homes for rent with a particular focus on the affordable, co-living, build to rent and student accommodation sectors. We have actually been around as a business since 1791. We might have changed a bit since then, but we can still draw on more than 200 years of experience to create stunning developments that meet the needs of modern living. Doing what we do requires a whole range of skill sets. We offer roles for qualified professionals as well as for those just starting out on their careers. We operate from a number of locations and sites across the whole country. Have a look at our current vacancies for our latest positions to find out more.

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