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Design Manager (13600)

Tilbury Douglas 🇬🇧 Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom

Hybrid Full-time Senior

Manage and coordinate project design from tender through construction, ensuring proposals meet client requirements, technical standards, budget, safety, quality, and programme objectives. Lead design teams and suppliers, manage deliverables and BIM information, resolve design interfaces, support value engineering and buildability, and maintain effective client and project-team relationships.

Responsibilities

  • Manage development and implementation of design proposals, ensuring they meet client requirements, budgets and regulatory standards
  • Deliver safe, high‑quality, cost‑effective designs with attention to maintenance, energy efficiency and environmental impact
  • Maintain design records, track submissions and approvals, and ensure compliance with TD and client standards
  • Lead external designers and suppliers, managing scope, cost and programme
  • Facilitate design team meetings, workshops and stage‑gate reviews
  • Provide buildability advice and apply value‑engineering throughout the design phase
  • Oversee BIM management, common data environments and digital protocols
  • Coordinate with client capital delivery and operational teams, managing expectations and communication
  • Ensure CDM duties are met by all parties

Requirements

  • Proven experience managing design services at tender and construction stages
  • Experience on multi‑discipline contracts within water, process or similar industries
  • Strong technical construction knowledge and understanding of CDM regulations
  • Competent user of MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word)
  • Experience with BIM and common data environments
  • Degree in engineering or construction (desirable) and professional membership (e.g., IMechE, MCIWEM) is a plus
  • Ability to lead, communicate and coordinate with clients, designers and subcontractors

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Car allowance
  • 26 days annual leave (plus the ability to buy/sell up to 3 days)
  • 3 additional long‑service days
  • Private medical insurance (family cover optional)
  • Life assurance
  • Defined contribution pension matched up to 8%
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and parental leave
  • 2 days volunteering opportunities
  • Flexible and agile working
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Professional membership fees
  • Perks at Work discount scheme
  • Flexible benefits (critical illness, dental, travel insurance, etc.)
  • Cycle‑to‑work scheme
  • Retail vouchers

Key Skills

Design management Construction design BIM coordination Common Data Environment (CDE) Value engineering CDM regulations Principal Designer duties Project budgeting Risk management Stakeholder communication Team leadership Procurement processes Digital protocols Lean construction techniques Technical documentation Design standards compliance Water industry standards (WIMES, CIWEM) MS Office suite Analytical problem solving Agile / stage‑gate delivery

About Tilbury Douglas

Tilbury Douglas is a leading UK building, infrastructure, engineering and fit‑out company delivering vital projects across sectors such as health, education, highways, defence and water.

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