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Senior Design Manager

Stratus Search & Recruitment 🇬🇧 Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

$80,000 - $110,000 Full-time Senior

Lead and coordinate the multidisciplinary design process from pre-construction through completion, ensuring design information is coordinated, compliant, buildable, and aligned with programme, cost, and quality requirements. Collaborate with clients, clinical stakeholders, consultants, subcontractors, and construction teams to resolve technical issues, manage design risks and changes, and support quality assurance, commissioning, and handover.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate the multidisciplinary design process from pre-construction through completion, ensuring design information is coordinated, compliant, buildable, and aligned with programme, cost, and quality requirements. Collaborate with clients, clinical stakeholders, consultants, subcontractors, and construction teams to resolve technical issues, manage design risks and changes, and support quality assurance, commissioning, and handover.

Requirements

  • Candidates should have proven design management experience with a Tier One contractor or in a similarly complex construction environment, ideally delivering large-scale hospital or healthcare projects. They should bring strong architectural, structural, and building services coordination knowledge, familiarity with UK regulations and healthcare standards, and the leadership, communication, programme, procurement, and buildability skills needed to drive design delivery.

Key Skills

Design Management Architectural Coordination Structural Coordination Building Services Coordination UK Construction Regulations Healthcare Project Standards Leadership Communication Program Management Procurement Buildability Assessment Risk Management Quality Assurance Commissioning Handover Procedures Multidisciplinary Collaboration

About Stratus Search & Recruitment

Founded in 2005, Stratus is a specialist search and recruitment consultancy providing staff primarily to the construction and real estate sector. We recruit on a retained and contingency basis for a variety of professionals throughout the UK and EMEA. As we have grown, so have our sectors which now include: Cost & Project Management Main & Specialist Contracting Engineering including Petrochem, EfW & Nuclear Residential Development HR Law We also have a dedicated international team. Our highly experienced consultants can be relied upon to deliver an unparalleled service which is personal, discreet and confidential.

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