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About the Role

Galliford Try Building London Southeast & Commercial is seeking an experienced Design Manager to support the design team. This role is primarily site-based, with occasional travel to the Uxbridge office required during tenders.

Responsibilities

• Manage the entire design solution process to meet or exceed customer requirements and framework deliverables.
• Identify contractual, financial, technical, and operational risks, and find opportunities for value engineering to minimize risk and maximize gross profit while achieving customer satisfaction.
• Support the safe, timely, and quality fulfillment of the contract pipeline.
• Lead the appointment of design and associated consultants, ensuring contractual requirements and deliverables are clearly defined.
• Review and appraise consultant fee proposals, manage consultant performance, and encourage collaboration for robust, coordinated designs.
• Support and manage the development of CDP Packages to ensure compliance and coordination.
• Assess consultants in line with CDM 2015 requirements and ensure all obligations are met, with designs considering health, safety, and buildability.
• Manage and own all design processes and information flow on Design and Build and heavily CDP contracts to meet employer's requirements, contractor's proposals, and contract conditions within program constraints using our CDE.
• Assess, evaluate, and ensure alignment of design outputs to relevant RIBA Stages.

Requirements

• New build and refurbishment experience in commercial, residential, mixed-use, hotel, and city centre developments.
• Experience with Traditional and D&B Contracts.
• Experience with all building elements including sub-structure, frame and envelope solutions, internal trades, and MMC.
• Experience managing designers and other consultants.
• Proven ability to deliver projects on time, to budget, and to quality standards with high customer satisfaction.
• Experience in analyzing problems and delivering solutions.
• Computer literate and commercially astute.
• Good time management with the ability to multi-task.
• Ability to make decisions within authority.
• Ability to lead and work as a team member.
• Strives for continuous improvement for the benefit of the company with a drive to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Demonstrates company values: Excellence, Passion, Integrity, and Collaboration.

Skills

• Design Management
• Value Engineering
• Contract Management
• Risk Management
• Consultant Management
• CDM 2015 Compliance
• Health and Safety
• Buildability Assessment
• RIBA Stages
• CDE (Common Data Environment)

Location

• London
• Uxbridge

Work Type

• Site-based
• Full-time
• Flexible working

Experience Level

• Experienced

Education Level

• HNC/HND/Degree in Construction/Design related field
• Member of Professional Body (CIOB/RIBA/RICS)

Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service
• Opportunity to purchase further holidays
• Wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options
• Employee assistance programme (24/7 support)
• Paid yearly membership to one recognised professional association

About the Company

• Galliford Try is one of the UK's leading construction businesses.
• Vision to continuously be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by values to deliver lasting change for stakeholders and communities.
• Purpose to improve people's lives through building facilities and infrastructure communities need.
• Provides opportunities for people to learn, grow, and progress.
• Works with supply chain to promote best working practices and cares for the environment.
• Holds true to values: delivering excellence, being passionate, putting integrity at the heart of business, and collaborating.
• One of the industry's leading principal contractors with an order book of over £4.1 billion.
• Offers opportunities to work on exciting UK projects.
• Committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of people through the 'Be Well' programme.
• Invests in high-quality training for employees of all levels.
• Offers tailored training and support through the Career Paths initiative.
• Believes employees are most motivated when they feel valued and engaged.
• Agile Working programme empowers flexibility in when, where, and how work is done.
• A major UK contractor with a diversified workload in public, regulated, and private sectors.
• Strong reputation for providing whole-life solutions, high standards of project delivery, and innovation.
• Operates under Galliford Try or Morrison Construction brands.
• Successfully partnered with clients in education, healthcare, defence, custodial & judicial, commercial, and urban living.
• Offers collaborative, well-thought-out solutions to complex technical challenges.
• Extensive experience and expertise in building projects enables understanding of client construction needs and delivery of solutions that surpass expectations.

Equal Opportunity

• Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly.
• Encourages candidates to confirm any requirements to make the application a positive experience.
• Encourages applications even if past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement.
• As a Disability Confident employer, committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meets the essential criteria.
• Encourages candidates to contact the Resourcing Partner if they believe they meet the Disability Confident criteria.