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Senior Design Manager

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Construction team based in Castle Donington, East Midlands.

Location: Castle Donington, East Midlands Hours: Full time - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

Kier Construction leads the way in delivering public sector works across our East Midlands Region. This Senior Design Manager role provides essential management and expertise to drive project success from tender through to delivery, working on public sector schemes including education, healthcare, and heritage projects.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Design Manager, you'll be working within the Construction team, supporting them in delivering design excellence across our projects. Your day to day will include:

Managing and delivering design information in line with agreed programmes and schedules
Ensuring appointed design consultants fulfil their duties and comply with standards and requirements
Assessing, mitigating and managing design-related risks throughout the project lifecycle
Chairing design meetings, writing reports and delivering presentations to stakeholders
Producing design programmes, responsibility matrices, and maintaining upline reporting

What are we looking for?

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

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 understanding of building contracts

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: Castle Donington

Vacancy ID: 12826

Background check: None

Closing date: 26 Nov 2026

Contract type: Permanent

Working hours: Full Time

Flexible working: No

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

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