Senior Design Manager in Wakefield

VINCI Building have an incredible opportunity for someone with experience of delivering high value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective. As Senior Design Manager you’ll be able to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads, being able to demonstrate a track record working within the Design Team on a variety of projects across different sectors, predominantly Healthcare but also Commercial & Public sector.

Your day to day will include:

• Management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme and deliverable schedule.
• Ensuring that our appointed design consultants carry out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns to ensure compliance with standards and brief.
• Design input at both preconstruction and construction stage of projects.
• The production of design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules.
• Attending/chair necessary meetings and workshops with internal and external stakeholders.

What are we looking for? This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if you have:

• 8+ years in a Design Manager role for a Tier 1 Contractor in the UK.
• Degree qualified in a construction related subject.
• Professionally chartered - MCIOB, MICE or equivalent.
• Experience working on healthcare projects.
• Experience working on mid-large-scale projects.
• Experience in delivering civils, sub-structure and super-structure structural design packages, as well as experience delivering facade design packages, including unitised/off site.

Specific Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Review the Tender Information including the Employer’s Information Requirements and any existing Design Team appointments and determine the scope and extent of all remaining design work, prior to the Tender Start-up meeting.
• Verify that the existing Tender (design) Information is compliant, coordinated, affordable (within the existing budget) and buildable prior to the Tender Settlement meeting.
• Determine, in conjunction with the bid team, the strategy for the completion of all remaining design work.
• Assess/audit all novated Design Team members and if applicable negotiate any additional services.
• Prepare and issue fee enquiries for supplementary Design Team members.
• Select and informally appoint supplementary Design Team members for both Pre and Post Contract Stages.
• Prepare and issue fee enquiries for any additional survey work and or reports.
• Produce and agree the Tender Stage Design Programme and Design Deliverables with the primary, secondary and specialist subcontract designers and monitor/report on progress.
• Produce and agree the Project Stage ‘draft’ Design Programme, Design Deliverables and Specialist sub-contractor Procurement Schedule.
• Produce the ‘draft’ Design Management Plan (DMP) and BIM Execution Plan (BEP).
• Develop, in conjunction with the Design Team, competitive, technically robust design and engineering solutions that respond to the Employer’s Requirements.
• Engage with ‘preferred’ specialist subcontractors to develop innovative design solutions and close out design interfaces.
• Compile a schedule of design assumptions, design opportunities (VE), design risks (HSE/CDM) identified during the Tender Stage design process.
• Assist in the technical review of specialist subcontract tender returns and review all alternative design solutions.
• Evaluate the commercial responses to specialist sub contract tender returns and propose recommendations for bid inclusion.
• Establish the extent of all outstanding Planning and Building Regulation Matters.
• Review any existing BREEAM Assessments and or undertake a Design Stage Assessments.
• Chair and record the outcomes of all primary, secondary and specialist subcontractor design workshops.
• Produce technical responses for all design questions contained in the tender enquiry document and compile a schedule of Tender Stage design clarifications, qualifications and derogations.
• Approve all design proposals that are to be included in the tender offer.
• Prepare for and attend all Pre and Post Tender Interviews.
• Undertake design performance reviews for all primary, secondary and specialist subcontractor designers.

Project Stage - Post Contract:

• Review the Project Information including the Employer’s Requirements, Contractor’s Proposals and formally appoint the Design Team and consultants and brief the Design Team on their contractual obligations and their corresponding duties.
• Agree, in conjunction with the site team, the specialist subcontractor procurement strategy.
• Produce and agree the Project Stage Design Programme and associated Design Deliverables with the primary, secondary and specialist subcontract designers and monitor/report on progress.
• Produce and agree the Project Stage Specialist sub-contractor Procurement Schedule and Installation/Commission Programme.
• Monitor/report on progress to ensure overall progress against programme is maintained.
• Establish and agree the project Common Data Environment (CDE), the project file structure, virtual file links, email file links, security rights, work flows and voting rights.
• Establish the frequency and content for all design coordination workshops and progress meetings.
• Produce the project specific Design Management Plan (DMP) and BIM Execution Plan (BEP) and monitor compliance.
• Close out design assumptions, design opportunities (VE), design risks (HSE/CDM) made during the early stages of the design and or tender process.
• Verify that all new design documentation is compliant, coordinated, affordable and buildable on a weekly basis in accordance with the DMP.
• Manage the submission and timely approval of all reviewable design data.
• Assist in the commercial and technical review of specialist subcontract tender returns, establish interfaces and review alternative design.
• Prepare technical submissions for alternative designs, system, component, product and or material proposals for client approval.
• Progress the discharge of all outstanding Planning Conditions and the approval of all Building Regulation matters.
• Manage the post contract change control process in accordance with the DMP.
• Ensure all primary, secondary and specialist subcontractor Design Risk Assessments are produced for review and approval.
• Chair and record the outcomes of all primary, secondary and specialist subcontractor design workshops/meetings.
• Obtain responses to primary, secondary designers’ TQs from the client’s team and specialist subcontractor TQs from the primary designers.
• Monitor the production and quality of all design documentation against the agreed Design Quality / Key Performance Indicators.
• Review and approve primary and secondary designers’ Applications for Payment.
• Obtain Design Reports from the primary and secondary designers to accompany the monthly CVRs.
• Progress the approval of specified design certificates including, CDM, BREEAM, Secure by Design, etc.
• Ensure that all changes to primary and secondary design work are incorporated in the As-Built design documentation.
• Undertake design performance reviews for all primary, secondary and specialist subcontractor designers.
• Assist the Document Controller in compiling and archiving the final issue of design documentation, for the; As-Built records, O&M Manuals, Health and Safety File and Post Construction Stage BREEAM certificate.
• Undertake or commission design autopsies on primary / secondary design defects.
• Manage the off-site design process on Stage 1 and 2 tenders, commencing at ‘RIBA Stage 2 or 3 – Concept or Developed Design’, in accordance with the VCUK Design Management processes and procedures.
• Manage the on-site design process at ‘RIBA Stage 4 and 5 – Technical Design and Construction’, in accordance with the VCUK Design Management processes and procedures.

We are VINCI Building Operating from our network of offices throughout England and Wales, VINCI Building delivers new build, refurbishment and associated fitout works, with particular expertise in the education, healthcare, industrial, air, retail, commercial and mixed-use sectors. We focus on technical excellence and experience to sustainably deliver best value for our clients. We understand and respond to the challenges of the modern built environment. Our goal is always to build strong partnerships with our customers and stakeholders to ensure success by unlocking your strategic vision and turning it into a deliverable scheme. We are active in a wide range of sectors and value bands, allowing us to provide a regional service with national resources. VINCI Building delivers complex projects and programmes, blending our corporate stability with the local knowledge our teams offer. Sustainability is at the heart of our approach, and we are committed to respecting and protecting the environment in everything that we do. We take the time to understand and make a positive difference to each community that we work in to ensure that our projects leave a lasting legacy. Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Building is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all. Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process, please contact us directly. VINCI Building recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.