Senior Design Manager

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Job Title
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Senior Design Manager

Location
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Fort William

Project Type
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Buildings

Company
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Balfour Beatty Group

Balfour Beatty are currently seeking an experienced Senior Design Manager to join our UKCS Scotland Buildings Team on a new Hospital build contract based in Fort William.

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure and construction group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient projects that underpin daily life, supports communities, and enables economic growth. Our unparalleled expertise and resources ensure that we deliver high-quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.

Now is a great time to join us. As a leading international construction group with a healthy pipeline of work, we're growing our teams. Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.

Our team shapes projects that connect communities and impact daily life for millions. Join our Regional Scotland team as a Senior Design Manager to build new futures.

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well-established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of large-scale critical infrastructure projects in Scotland, you will work with true experts who will share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we'll help you take it much, much further.

Our ideal candidate will primarily work to support the implementation and manage the control of the design process to ensure that the design and procurement of specialist packages are delivered to meet project requirements and are in line with cost parameters.

• Utilising the suite of approved Regional Scotland Design Management documents, manage the design development and delivery of project information, noting the desire to generate complete, compliant, co‑ordinated and fully costed drawings and specifications (including CDP subcontractor input) to meet programme requirements.
• Manage and ensure effective briefing of the Design Team. This includes, where necessary, the management of any 3rd parties or novated design teams to ensure that they meet all customer specifications, and where necessary, checking the competence and resources of any incumbent design teams or 3rd parties.
• Manage the development and implementation of design proposals ensuring they meet customer requirements including budget constraints, presenting proposals for approval to the customer. The design should deliver:
• Safety in construction and use
• Quality within affordable parameters
• Ease of maintenance, energy efficiency with minimum environmental impact
• Innovation to meet customer goals and positive impact on the local community
• Provide advice and guidance on the "buildability" of the design proposals to the design and construction teams on all packages.
• Liaise with all statutory bodies/authorities as required – such as planning, building control including SER requirements.
• Lead the development and management of the design deliverables programme:
• Ensure there is a clear schedule of design deliverables
• Lead gate reviews activities to ensure that they are timely and appropriate sign‑off is achieved at each project gate to include appropriate communication to Bid Managers and other Design/Work Winning team members as required,
• Lead the co‑ordination and production of design data, bid deliverables, reports and documentation essential to the project and contractual requirements and report progress against the design deliverables programme.
• Lead the implementation of the project BIM deliverables, including teamwork and collaboration and the management and sharing of data relating to BIM models – all in collaboration with the Regional Digital team.
• Liaise with our BIM management during the bid and construction stages ensuring the supply chain is fully aware of BIM requirements
• Consider the application of Lean construction techniques in order to save money, reduce waste…