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Senior Design Manager

Skilled Careers 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

$90,000 - $105,000 Full-time Senior

Lead the design process from pre-construction through completion, coordinating consultant teams and technical information while ensuring design solutions meet programme, budget, quality, compliance, and buildability objectives. Chair design reviews, manage risks and changes, support procurement and value engineering, monitor progress, and maintain relationships with project stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design process from pre-construction through completion, coordinating consultant teams and technical information while ensuring design solutions meet programme, budget, quality, compliance, and buildability objectives. Chair design reviews, manage risks and changes, support procurement and value engineering, monitor progress, and maintain relationships with project stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Requires proven Design Manager or Senior Design Manager experience in residential or mixed-use projects, including high-rise reinforced concrete frame developments in London and experience with a main contractor, developer, or major residential contractor. Candidates should have strong construction and design management knowledge, familiarity with Building Regulations, the Building Safety Act and gateway processes, commercial awareness, and effective leadership and communication skills.

Key Skills

Design leadership Construction design management Pre‑construction coordination Consultant team coordination Technical information management Programme compliance Budget adherence Quality control Regulatory compliance Building Safety Act knowledge Gateway process familiarity Risk and change management Value engineering Procurement support Stakeholder relationship management Commercial awareness Leadership communication Project monitoring

About Skilled Careers

Skilled Careers is one of the UK’s leading professional search and recruitment consultancies for the construction, engineering and property sectors, for both permanent and contract assignments. Within these industries we are an effective and trusted link between highly skilled and experienced candidates and the country’s most reputable employers. Many well-known recruitment services fail to meet the needs of both candidates and companies swiftly and effectively, leading to reports of dissatisfaction and delay. We developed Skilled Careers to break the mould of sluggish and risky recruitment, building our values on pro-activity, promptness and client support. Our consultants have a great deal of experience working with professionals in these sectors and understand the demands of the industry. We can therefore communicate easily with both clients and candidates, reducing time and uncertainty. We are industry experts in recruiting candidates for the following specialities; Arch

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