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Design Manager

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

Full-time

Manage and coordinate design from pre-construction through construction and handover, ensuring designs meet DfE standards, regulations, specifications, and framework requirements. Lead design teams and stakeholder coordination, manage programmes and design risks, and resolve issues while supporting quality, value, buildability, and sustainability.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and coordinate design from pre-construction through construction and handover, ensuring designs meet DfE standards, regulations, specifications, and framework requirements. Lead design teams and stakeholder coordination, manage programmes and design risks, and resolve issues while supporting quality, value, buildability, and sustainability.

Requirements

  • Candidates must have main-contractor Design Manager experience delivering DfE education projects and experience with applicable DfE or established public-sector education frameworks. They should understand DfE design standards and technical guidance, and be able to coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage design risks, and deliver programmes effectively.

Key Skills

Design management Construction design coordination DfE design standards Regulatory compliance Program management Risk management Stakeholder coordination Quality assurance Value engineering Buildability assessment Sustainability principles Leadership Team coordination Project scheduling Strategic planning

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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