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Design Manager

Fortem Solutions 🇬🇧 England, United Kingdom

Onsite Full-time Manager

Lead and coordinate design across bidding, pre-construction, and construction stages for large-scale social housing retrofit and capital works projects, ensuring compliance, collaboration, and delivery of coordinated design information. Manage design teams, consultants, surveys, budgets, design changes, client reviews, and sustainability requirements, while identifying opportunities for decarbonisation and design efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate design across bidding, pre-construction, and construction stages for large-scale social housing retrofit and capital works projects, ensuring compliance, collaboration, and delivery of coordinated design information. Manage design teams, consultants, surveys, budgets, design changes, client reviews, and sustainability requirements, while identifying opportunities for decarbonisation and design efficiency.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have extensive construction design experience, strong leadership skills, and a track record managing complex projects, preferably in social housing, retrofit, and sustainability. They should understand design-and-build and two-stage/PCSA contracts, CDM responsibilities, building pathology, technical building systems, and design requirements for procurement and construction; a relevant bachelor's degree and CIOB or RIBA chartered membership are desirable.

Benefits

  • Motor Expenditure Allowance
  • Company Car
  • Salary Sacrifice Car Lease
  • Annual Leave
  • Birthday Leave
  • Discretionary Bonus
  • Paid Maternity Leave
  • Annual Pay Reviews
  • Paid Paternity Leave
  • Discounted Gym Memberships
  • Colleague Referral Fee
  • Training and Development
  • Private Healthcare
  • Dental Care
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Retail Discounts
  • Mobile Phone Discounts

Key Skills

Design leadership Social housing design Retrofit projects Capital works coordination Compliance management Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams Design information coordination Team management Consultant coordination Survey integration Budget management Design change management Client review facilitation Sustainability integration Decarbonisation strategies Design‑and‑build contracts CDM regulations Building pathology Technical building systems

About Fortem Solutions

As Social Housing Experts, we strive to raise the bar and provide safe, warm and decent homes for people to live in. Fortem delivers a range of internal and external repairs on a 24/7 basis, as well as high-quality voids, planned installations and gas services by a national team of committed and driven professionals, supported by intelligent use of data and technology. We deliver complex Capital Works projects to enhance homes, with precision and minimal disruption to residents. Our turnkey Retrofit service provides technical know-how alongside operational excellence, in partnership with social housing landlords. We are a Willmott Dixon Group Company. As such, we benefit from the credibility and recognition associated with a large and long-established brand – whilst as a standalone business within the Group, we maintain the flexibility to adapt our services to meet the unique challenges of the social housing marketplace. Our ethos that Every Home Matters means clients can trust u

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