Design Manager, Cardiff

Wanted - Assistant Design Manager / Design Coordinator or Design Manager 

What makes it great?

-Professional & friendly team environment 

-Excellent relationships and a prompt payer to subcontractors and suppliers.

-Big enough to keep you busy, but small enough to know your name, excellent option if you are fed up of being treated like just another number. 

-Diversity of projects, leisure, commercial, industrial, student accommodation, Care Homes, Hotels, Education and Healthcare.

-Excellent opportunity for career progression, going through a period of organic growth.
 
COMPANY:

My client is a reputable building main contractor, with a busy and fast growing workload.
As a result of securing further new projects, this employer is looking to strengthen their team further with the appointment of a Design Coordinator / Manager to work on a range of exciting projects. 

Multi-Million Pound Projects live and ready to go.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Design Manager covering all aspects of the design coordination for the business on various projects. Design Coordinator is similar in scope but on smaller projects or as part of a team on a larger scale project

• Arranging and chairing the Design team meetings to lead the process with the consultants and sub contract designers, issuing minutes and ensuring the resulting actions are actioned

• Collate and manage the contract specifications, drawing and related documents for the construction process

• Carrying drawing reviews issuing Comments then ensuring all comments are added accordingly to the design

• Carry out technical reviews of any proposed works to ensure contractual and technical compliance.

• Prepare and manage the Design and procurement schedule and issue information release schedules to set design target dates

• Offer input and design reviews into the procurement process

• Providing design support to Project Management teams.

• Review and implement Value engineering opportunities

• Coordinate with the M&E managers to ensure coordination of the M&E install and commissioning process.

• Utilizing specialist consultants coordinate the information and design to ensure BREEAM and Part L compliance are attained as required.

• Coordinate the submission of information to satisfy Building control compliance

• Coordinate the submission of information to satisfy all planning conditions are discharged

• Lead Design review workshop with the client / tenant to ensure understanding and satisfaction with proposed works 

• Manage the Design Change Proposals for client sign off

• Submitting design information to the client team and recording, tracking and closing out any comments and queries that arise

• Issue, track and close out any Requests For Information that arise to enable the design to be completed. Assist in the collation of the O&M Health and safety file

REQUIREMENTS: 

To be considered for this Design Coordinator role you must meet the following criteria:

- Knowledge of Building Sector.
- Previous employment as a Design Co-ordinator, D&B Coordinator, D&B Manager, Design Manager. Site Engineer, Project management or Design Engineering (civil / structural engineers), Architect or Architectural Technician backgrounds also considered. 
- High level of communication skills. 
- Relevant industry qualification (Degree / HND / HNC etc), ideally a civil engineering qualification. 
 

REMUNERATION:

The successful Assistant / Design Manager will receive:

*Competitive Basic (Dependant on experience)
*Car Allowance
*Pension 

*Bonus

To be considered for this vacancy or to find out more information please apply now.

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