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About the Role

Responsible for all design and technical aspects of projects, ensuring delivery on budget and to program. This involves managing external consultants and communicating effectively with the wider team and business partners. Ensure designs comply with requirements, regulations, and safety standards for project approval and site commencement.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical and design processes, design teams, and subcontractors throughout design, procurement, and construction.
• Monitor progress to ensure delivery on time and in budget.
• Manage technical design of schemes in accordance with program, meeting company targets and maximizing revenue through quality, cost-effectiveness, and buildability.
• Review and input into allocated bids, undertaking technical appraisals of design information.
• Assess design requirements, compliance, consultant fee requirements, and produce a design program.
• Assess the quality of received information, identify value engineering opportunities, risks, collate consultant costs, and prepare contractor proposals.
• Review ER technical specifications.
• Produce, develop, control, and manage project-specific design programs and provide regular progress reporting.
• Produce detailed project-specific design scoping and undertake procurement of consultant and subcontractor designers.
• Assess consultant and subcontractor designer competency assessment questionnaires and supporting evidence.
• Monitor and manage consultant fees and invoicing.
• Fulfill CDM Principal Designer role.
• Fulfill Building Regulations Principal Design role and be named as Designated Individual.
• Undertake thorough reviews and interrogations of consultant and subcontractor designs for compliance with legislation, system literature, planning consent, buildability, completeness, presentation, best value, accuracy, level of information, and risk elimination.
• Review and assess alternative build methods and practices.
• Manage and coordinate external consultants in their day-to-day duties related to design, coordination, and technical aspects of production information.
• Ensure delivery within time, quality, budget, and technical constraints, driving high standards.
• Ensure designs comply with company standards.
• Promote design that respects budgetary constraints.
• Organize and manage technical coordination workshops, package reviews, and design team meetings.
• Ensure all aspects of building design are fully coordinated, including fire safety, structures, M&E, façades, internal specification, service strategies, and maintenance strategies.
• Ensure fully complete, correct, and coordinated packages are issued to Commercial and Construction teams.
• Establish required scoping for survey and investigative works.
• Maintain and deliver in accordance with company values.
• Manage subcontractor and supplier design approvals, ensuring timely turnaround.
• Monitor subcontractor design approvals and maintain a tracker in line with the program.
• Manage the flow of information to Commercial, Operations, and the Client.
• Update and coordinate monthly design schedules.
• Chair and undertake design package presentations with consultant and subcontractor designers.
• Review and coordinate design and technical issues with Commercial and Operations teams.
• Monitor changes from the Client, design consultants, subcontractors, and proposed changes by the construction team.
• Manage the change control process for variations related to drawing revisions, construction programs, and costs.
• Collate required information and liaise with Planning Authorities and Building Control for submissions and approvals.
• Oversee document control for registration and distribution of design and technical information.
• Monitor and manage the processing of information through workflows on the document management system.
• Ensure current drawings are filed correctly and design information exchange follows company protocol.
• Undertake site visits as required.
• Attend site meetings and monthly/weekly project meetings.
• Monitor work executed on site to ensure it matches benchmarks and design/specifications.
• Manage, investigate, and respond promptly to RFIs from the site team and subcontractors.
• Review and advise on corrective measures for identified design issues.
• Monitor and obtain critical certificates for completion and handover documentation.
• Oversee and participate in the collation of handover information, golden thread, H&S files, O&M manuals, and resident packs.
• Comply with company policies, procedures, and instructions.
• Comply with responsibilities as laid down in the group’s health, safety, and environmental policy.
• Ensure United Living’s drive for world-class Health and Safety is delivered in all aspects of work.

Requirements

• Thorough with a pro-active management style.
• Capability to lead and coordinate with managers across a wider team.
• Ability to prioritize and delegate effectively, negotiate, motivate, and communicate to influence others.
• Analytical approach to work with an eye for detail.
• Leadership skills including assertiveness, decisiveness, flexibility, good time management, organization, effectiveness in meetings, and ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines.
• Ability to review drawings and identify buildability and technical issues.
• Effective people management of direct reports, including goal setting, performance management, feedback, direction, support, and coaching.
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Effective communication with all levels of management and project teams, both internal and external.
• Proven track record of successfully managing all aspects of the design and technical process for residential buildings.
• Up-to-date relevant construction industry knowledge, including legislation and procedures.
• Valid driving license.
• Knowledge of methodology and sequencing process in delivering a construction project, including design and pre-construction activities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High-rise development experience.
• Understanding of the building safety legislative framework, including the Building Safety Act, Building Regulations (dutyholder roles & competency requirements), and the HRB Procedure Regulations.
• Strong technical knowledge and skillset to assess, challenge, and monitor design work compliance.
• Experience in designer scoping.

Skills

• AutoCAD
• Revit
• BIM
• PAS9980 fire risk assessments
• EWS1
• FRAEW
• Temporary works

Work Type

• Permanent
• Full-time

Education Level

• Minimum Level 4 (HNC/NVQ4 etc.) Architectural qualification or equivalent design, technical and/or construction based qualification.

About the Company

• United Infrastructure is a dynamic and rapidly expanding business focused on delivering critical infrastructure projects across the utility and social infrastructure sectors.
• Our team of highly skilled and hardworking specialists deliver innovative solutions to the complex challenges our clients face.
• Our company is split into two business areas: Utility Infrastructure (design, build, and maintain critical water, energy (gas), power, and telecoms infrastructure for the UK’s largest network owners and operators) and Social Infrastructure (revitalize homes and communities through retrofit, refurbishment, and maintenance).
• United Living has rebranded to United Infrastructure.