Design Manager

at  JRL Group

DESIGN MANAGER

Location: Birmingham City Centre
Midgard is the main contracting division of the +£750m turnover JRL Group and utilises all the company’s in-house resources and facilities to provide clients with a bespoke construction service.
We have gone back to the time when contractors carried out work themselves with a dedicated, reliable workforce and their own fleet of plant and equipment.
Due to the award of three major, high rise projects in Birmingham, we are seeking to recruit an additional Design Manager to join our team in the West Midlands. The ideal candidate will have a tenacious attitude, with a desire to succeed and progress in their career.

• Manage the Design Team, the design development and design review process.
• Manage and monitor design delivery against agreed deliverable dates, and report to SDM on performance issues.
• Be responsible for developing the design programme with consultants and planner for bids or projects.
• Produce agree and manage, with all relevant parties, a realistic design programme and information required schedule to satisfy design, procurement and construction requirements.
• Manage the design on site with where appropriate the assistance of other site based resource implementing the design management procedures to ensure the timely production of information.
• Ensure that all design deliverables are reviewed to establish they are within budget, are fully coordinated and are buildable.
• Where nominated control design change process management.
• Provide guidance to the project team on design related issues.
• Identify design requirements for the bid from the clients brief.
• Develop and compile the design proposals for inclusion within the contractors documentation.
• Appoint the design team, agree schedules of responsibilities and fee agreements for services/design deliverables and resourcing requirements.