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Design Manager

Strabag 🇬🇧 Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Mid-level

Lead and coordinate design throughout the project lifecycle, managing deliverables, assurance, progress reporting, risks, and interfaces with clients, consultants, subcontractors, and internal teams. Support tender and project delivery through safe, practical, economical designs, quality checks, process improvements, staff development, and compliance with company procedures and applicable standards.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate design throughout the project lifecycle, managing deliverables, assurance, progress reporting, risks, and interfaces with clients, consultants, subcontractors, and internal teams. Support tender and project delivery through safe, practical, economical designs, quality checks, process improvements, staff development, and compliance with company procedures and applicable standards.

Requirements

  • Requires proven Design Manager experience in construction, a degree or equivalent in architecture, engineering, construction management, or a related discipline, and experience managing multidisciplinary teams on major building and industrial or logistics projects. Candidates should have strong knowledge of construction methods, regulations, and technical standards, alongside programme coordination, communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills; professional membership and BIM knowledge are desirable.

Key Skills

Design coordination Construction design standards Project lifecycle management Risk and progress reporting Stakeholder management Quality assurance Process improvement Team development BIM knowledge Leadership Communication Technical documentation Regulatory compliance Tender support Multidisciplinary collaboration

About Strabag

At STRABAG around 89,000 people working on progress at more than 2,400 locations worldwide. Uniqueness and individual strengths characterise both our projects and each of us as individuals. Whether its building construction, civil engineering, road construction, underground engineering, bridge building, tunnelling, construction material production, project development or building management – we are always one step ahead so that we can become the most innovative and sustainable construction technology company in Europe. Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities are integral to this, who we are as a company and how we work. Together we work as partners to complete projects successfully and grow with new challenges. Together we achieve great things. Let’s progress!

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