Senior Design Manager

Senior Design Manager

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Design Manager, you'll be working within the Eastern South region team, supporting them in delivering exceptional design outcomes for our clients. Your day to day will include:

• Managing and delivering design information in accordance with agreed programmes and schedules
• Ensuring appointed design consultants meet their obligations and comply with standards and project briefs
• Assessing, mitigating and managing design-related risks throughout the project lifecycle
• Chairing design meetings, preparing reports and delivering presentations to stakeholders
• Ensuring design compliance with health and safety legislation, sustainable building standards and industry codes of practice

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if:

• You hold a relevant qualification in Construction Management, Engineering or Architecture
• You have demonstrable experience in a design role within a main contractor environment
• You possess strong knowledge of the design process at both commercial and construction stages
• You have experience with BIM level 2 projects and understand the RIBA plan of work

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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Location: Stansted

Vacancy ID: 12817

Background check: None

Closing date: 26 Oct 2026

Contract type: Permanent

Working hours: Full Time

Flexible working: Yes

Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.