Design manager

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Shape your career in construction with some of the best in the business. When it comes to design management challenges, we pool our creativity and ambition to make big things happen. Our size and stability mean there’s always something new to get stuck into, exciting design and engineering career opportunities to explore, and invaluable experiences to grow from. Join us as a Design Manager and open up your future to more.
This exciting new position will be working in the Regional Civils team, on projects across the Midlands and East of England, including flexible working. This role is available part time, job share or full time. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full time.
You will be managing the delivery of design on a project throughout its lifecycle. Identifying design risk and mitigation whilst communicating with the internal and external stakeholders project working with the pre-construction manager, commercial and production team in both preconstruction and construction stages.
What you’ll be doing

As a Design Manager, you will:

• Lead on design management in the feasibility and pre-construction in line with health and safety, budget requirements and customer drivers set out in the pre-construction strategy.
• Ensure that design deliverables are produced in a timely and effective manner.
• Formulate and implement the design strategy to deliver the project and convert into a construction contract.
• Consider the commercial attractiveness of design strategies and report conclusions early to management within team meeting and monthly reporting meetings.
• Identify, report and manage significant design risks and opportunitiesMeet customers and designers on a regular basis and manage technical and scope queries raised by all parties including 3rd party stakeholders.
• Take pride in seeing your projects shape the nation’s landscape.
• Work with customers, design consultants, engineers, construction teams, and other experts to shape designs that our clients want and our society needs.
• Join at the very beginning to make sure every design is fit for purpose and buildable.
• Minimise risk and maximise impact by considering every design from every angle.
• Recommend the best way forward on highly complex proposed builds by visualising how designs will look and work during and after construction.
• Make big calls on how best to manage the design and build – from influencing who works on it and testing their competency, to coordinating teams as things progress.
• Harness the power of digital more than ever before (we can support with training)
• Develop well-rounded skills and a fascinating career across our growing business.

Who we’re looking for

Everything we do relies on our Design Managers. It’s a role with impact. And it calls for:

• People with ambition who want to grow their talents and potential with us
• Natural problem-solvers
• Logical thinkers who can see the bigger picture as well as the technical detail
• The vision to look towards how a build concept could eventually operate in reality
• An appreciation of construction, engineering and materials – although we welcome other backgrounds and offer training and mentoring on the technical aspects
• Someone who can comfortably build relationships and liaise with multi-skilled teams.
• Results driven with an understanding of risk reduction in design
• Team player who encourages high standards and is quality driven
• Flexible to ensure deadlines are met
• Capable of managing multiple projects and teams at the same time, each with different priorities and levels of complexity
• Strong negotiator
• Good interpersonal and communication skills are required
• Customer focussed with the ability to recognise value opportunities
• Ability to travel within the Region and Nationally
• Able to obtain and maintain Security Clearance

Why work for us
If you’re inspired by the chance to grow like never before through meaningful work, join us as a Design Manager. As well as benefits that include a share plan, pension, recognition scheme, employee assistance programme and generous annual and volunteering leave, you’ll be safe, seen, heard and respected throughout your career with us. Apply now.
About us
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. Our Smart Working policy enables employees to work flexibly where operationally possible and we would be happy to explore this with you.
To find out more about our Value Everyone D&I Strategy and Action Plan, visit our website at https://www.balfourbeatty.com/how-we-work/diversity-and-inclusion/
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with disabled people and people with long-term health conditions, to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Further information about Disability Confident can be found at https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
Job Reference: BBUK1010

• People with ambition who want to grow their talents and potential with us
• Natural problem-solvers
• Logical thinkers who can see the bigger picture as well as the technical detail
• The vision to look towards how a build concept could eventually operate in reality
• An appreciation of construction, engineering and materials – although we welcome other backgrounds and offer training and mentoring on the technical aspects
• Someone who can comfortably build relationships and liaise with multi-skilled teams.
• Results driven with an understanding of risk reduction in design
• Team player who encourages high standards and is quality driven
• Flexible to ensure deadlines are met
• Capable of managing multiple projects and teams at the same time, each with different priorities and levels of complexity
• Strong negotiator
• Good interpersonal and communication skills are required
• Customer focussed with the ability to recognise value opportunities
• Ability to travel within the Region and Nationally
• Able to obtain and maintain Security Clearanc