Senior Design Manager

Senior Design Manager

Manchester / Liverpool - with travel

Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits

Full Time (37.5) hours – Happy to talk Flexible and Agile Working

Let us say why we believe you should choose Morgan Sindall as the next step in your career.

At Morgan Sindall Construction we encourage diversity of people and thought, and we embrace peoples’ differences.

Everyone is unique and we value the different ideas, experiences, and perspectives that everyone brings to their work, their team and the wider business.

We are committed to ensuring we create the very best place to work in the industry, and an environment where every person feels included and is treated equally, fairly and with respect.

We actively promote an inclusive culture where you can be yourself at work. It’s this approach we believe brings out the best in everyone and creates a fun, dynamic, innovative, and rewarding environment.

We are a Real Living Wage Employer and an Investors in People – Platinum company. We are also accredited to the Gold standard of the Armed Forces Covenant, for us it’s a promise to supporting the people who have protected us. The accreditation is held by all Morgan Sindall Group companies, so you can be assured you're joining a business where veterans and their families are supported and valued.

You’ll work with our teams as an ambassador to promote and influence future generations to our thriving industry and have access to an extensive range of learning and development opportunities on what YOU want, after all it is your future with us.

An insight into the North West Team!

Here within the Construction North West Division, we work on projects across the full North West England area. Joining our North West region will give you the opportunity to create inspiring places that enhance our communities in the education, health care and community and residential developments. It doesn’t stop there! Our future portfolio encompasses innovative and diverse market sectors. Be part of our North West team and start enhancing your community today.

What’s in it for you?

In addition to working in a company where diversity is encouraged, and people’s differences are celebrated our Senior Design Manager opportunity is a permanent contract with a competitive salary on offer with the additional benefit of a Company Car or Cash Allowance reflecting your Morgan Sindall Benefit Grade.

We strive to support our colleagues to achieve a healthy work-life balance. We understand that many of our people have family and personal responsibilities and so we are committed to providing that support. Here are just some of the benefits you can expect:

Pension Scheme matched up to 6%; 26 days holiday plus bank holidays and rising to 30 days after 8 years’ service and the holiday plus scheme; Private Healthcare Cover; Life Assurance up to 4 times your basic salary; 10-days fully paid Reservist leave; professional qualification/ membership achieved up to £1250; Mental Wellbeing and Employee Supports; People Portal for high street discounts; Long Service Awards; Sharesave Plan; Incentive Scheme; Enhanced Family leave from Day One and more!

What we need from you

Reporting to the Head of Design for our North West Region we are looking for a committed Senior Design Manager who manage the design aspects of tenders and projects in progress and lead and provide a professional, comprehensive and sustainable design service for the customer and key partners and suppliers at bid and delivery stages.

• You will need to be able to provide or obtain the right to work in the UK.
• You will need to be able to drive and provide or obtain a full UK Driving Licence to travel across our projects, this is predominantly a site-based role to initially support our projects in the North West Area.
• Are you an experienced Senior Design Manager or a Design Manager and looking for that step up in your Design career? Or an experienced Architectural Consultant looking to take a different career path?
• You will have a qualification or the skills and experience at Level 4 preferably in Archectural Technology / Construction Management discipline,  and hold a relevant professional accreditation or ability to obtain.
• Be able to demonstrate experience on both single stage tenders and preferred terms work procurement routes and on bidding and winning work, preferably in the Education Sector.
• Manage and coordinate safely the overall design process through the RIBA design stages  challenging the brief and bringing innovation and continuous improvements benefits to the projects  at bid and delivery stages.
• Programme and manage all design reviews and coordination meetings and ensure a fully coordinated design strategy is in place and work closely with discipline lead designers to deliver coordinated design solutions.
• Have a real passion for the role and want to deliver exceptionally, the places where we live, learn, work, play, care and protect.

Anything else?

The question is, do you want to be involved in creating iconic buildings and using intelligent solutions to deliver bespoke projects to our customers AND be part of the future of construction? Then join our team and start the future, today!

As an equal opportunities and accredited Disability Confident Committed employer, Morgan Sindall Construction is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination based on age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage and welcome suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply. If you require reasonable adjustments during any part of our recruitment process, please get in contact with our team.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. 

Note for Recruitment Agencies: Morgan Sindall Construction has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. Please note that any CVs submitted will be deemed as gifted to Morgan Sindall and any agency terms & conditions associated with the use of such CVs will be null and void.