My client a main contractor based just outside of Norwich are seeking to strengthen their award winning and successful team by recruiting a Design Manager to manage the pre construction stage of design management contributing positively to winning new work. for

Key Responsibilities

* Manage the pre-construction design process in line.

* Provide design management support to the Preconstruction team ensuring all design matters are compliant with relevant legislation, tender brief, and contract requirements

* Analyse Tender documents and identify required design responses

* Engage with the pre-construction team to agree scope of design requirements and allocation of responsibilities

* Investigate and recommend alternative and innovative solutions with change impact assessment

* Chair and record design workshops

* Assess design and delivery risks and recommend mitigation

* Engage with the supply chain to verify design issues and review tender offers.

* Support and contribute to the tender quality submission with written responses to tender questions

* Provide design input to the tender submission whole life programme.

* Support digital aspects of tender evaluation and submission

* Provide a technical handover pack for the delivery team

Key Skills & Knowledge

* Contractually aware

* Ability to develop and implement design management processes

* Able to work to tight deadlines, organise and plan own workload

* IT skills

* Capable of defining design responsibilities and scopes of work for design consultants and subcontractors

* Demonstrable skills in reviewing tender designs

* Creating design programmes to be included in Master programme identifying relevant design milestones and deliverables

* Able to assess CDM / Safety and design risks and identify mitigation strategies

* Able to write comprehensive Contractors Proposals and tender question responses for inclusion in tender submissions

* Innovation experience of differing systems and ability to adapt ideas. Research new technical solutions.

* Value engineering able to lead design reviews and provide comprehensive assessment of options

* Communicates with colleagues and clients in a warm and persuasive way both formally and informally. Alters style and manner to suit audience.

* Plans ahead, prioritise tasks and monitors progress against plan, making alterations where necessary and organises required resources.

* Considers potential problems in advance and identifies opportunities and threats through analysing trends. Guides others in implementing solutions.

* Ensures that all viewpoints are considered and gains agreement on mutually acceptable outcomes, whilst maintaining the interests of the business.

* Assesses risk and consequence before making a judgement on available evidence and ensures that final decision is implemented.

* Encourages, supports and values contributions of others, shares credit and responds positively to requests for help. Shares knowledge.

* Recognised by others as having useful skills and knowledge, which are readily shared. Keeps up to date with new aspects of job role