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Senior Design Manager

Balfour Beatty Plc šŸ‡¬šŸ‡§ Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Senior

Lead design development and delivery for refurbishment, remediation, fire safety, compliance, and building modernisation works, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and external design partners. Manage design programmes and stakeholder coordination, ensuring solutions are compliant, buildable, commercially viable, and sequenced to minimise disruption in an occupied operational environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design development and delivery for refurbishment, remediation, fire safety, compliance, and building modernisation works, coordinating multidisciplinary teams and external design partners. Manage design programmes and stakeholder coordination, ensuring solutions are compliant, buildable, commercially viable, and sequenced to minimise disruption in an occupied operational environment.

Requirements

  • Significant experience as a Design Manager or Senior Design Manager delivering complex refurbishment, remediation, or building upgrade projects, ideally in occupied buildings. Requires strong knowledge of building safety and regulations, experience coordinating architectural, structural, and MEP disciplines and external consultants, BIM understanding, excellent stakeholder skills, and a valid CSCS card; relevant professional membership is advantageous.

Benefits

  • Flexible Working
  • Paid Annual Leave
  • Family-Friendly Leave
  • Pension
  • Share Incentive Plan
  • Volunteering Leave
  • Recognition Schemes
  • Professional Development

Key Skills

Design development for refurbishment Remediation design Fire safety compliance Building modernisation Multidisciplinary team coordination External design partner management Design programme management Stakeholder coordination Compliance verification Buildability assessment Commercial viability analysis Sequencing for occupied environments Construction regulations knowledge BIM understanding CSCS card Architectural coordination Structural coordination MEP integration Leadership Risk mitigation

About Balfour Beatty Plc

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. With 20,000 employees across the UK and US, we’re leading the transformation of our industry to meet the challenges of the future. We finance, develop, build, maintain and operate the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and deliver projects at the heart of local communities.

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