Senior Design Manager
| Posting date: | 14 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive Salary |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 May 2024 |
| Location: | PH15 2NT |
| Company: | Discovery Taymouth Management Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | e6d6cc1eb9e54afcb083 |
Summary
Discovery Land Company is a US-based developer and operator of private residential club communities with a world-renowned portfolio of domestic and international properties.
Taymouth Castle Golf and Sport Club is Discovery Land’s second European private members-only golf & sport community. Nestled between two national parks and at the head of Loch Tay in Kenmore, Perthshire, the club incorporates several land estates and is rich in history with dramatic views and the offer of endless adventures.
This private lifestyle-driven community will offer 125 residences, a redesigned world-class golf course and practice facility, wellness and recreation facilities, a range of outdoor pursuits as well as a refurbished 19th century castle to offer a clubhouse with a range of food & beverage outlets and indoor activities. The Club also offers additional facilities at Glenlyon, a nearby farm and mountain estate. Taymouth Castle offers a membership that values its relationships, its health, its leisure time, and is a modern community that honours Scotland’s strong legacy of history, outdoor adventure and, most importantly, fun.
Please note the selected candidate must have the right to work in the UK as we cannot offer visa sponsorship and offers are subject to successful completion of our reference and background checks.
As Senior Design Manager for the Taymouth Castle project you will work closely with the VP of Development and Construction and will play an important role in the daily coordination, management, and execution of the design process throughout the project. Your primary responsibility will be overseeing exceptional standards of design implementation through collaborated working with project business stakeholders. Guiding potential owners with their own individual property design, from inception to completion. Following building regulation requirements and ensuring exceptional standards of delivery throughout the project.
Key Responsibilities
- You will have full responsibility for the management of design throughout this exciting project through collaboration with all the project areas; Taymouth Castle, Kenmore Village and Glenlyon. And any additional DLC properties within the local area.
- Ensuring that timely decisions and the design are delivered in line with the planned programme.
- Liaise with key project business stakeholders and potential property owners to guide them through the design and the planning while making them aware of any building regulation requirements.
- Create and develop design briefs and vision plans for project feasibility stage together with the DLC development team.
- Participate in the design team and contractor prequalification selection process. Ensure the suitable selection of consultants and contractors who meet the agreed project requirements.
- Review the scope of services for each design team agreement. Ensuring the designer’s scope of works and design responsibilities are clearly defined and understood by everyone involved.
- Effectively manage the design budget in conjunction with the project team.
- Conduct design reviews at the end of the design stage. Ensure the design is compliant with brief, design guidelines and operational requirements.
- Visually present the reviews at each stage in conjunction with the development team leaders. Exhibiting the reviews to business stakeholders and property owners.
- Conduct buildability reviews. Ensuring completeness of the design to meet employer’s requirements in readiness for tendering.
- Together with the design, operations, project management team facilitate project design workshops during the design and development phase and confidently provide design solutions.
- Chair regular project design meetings with consultants, development team and contractors to resolve any design issues in a timely manner.
- Attending value engineering workshops and providing input through advice and guidance with value engineering proposals.
- Support the development team during the tender stage with design related queries.
- Review samples, mock up’s, design proposals ensuring they comply with both the stakeholder and property owners’ requirements and design intent.
- Liaise with local planning consultant and the planning authority. Provide related design project information to support the planning applications required by the development team.
- Professionally respond to all client design related requests during the design and construction phase.
- Sensitively design solutions to complement existing assets.
- Experience in the use of sustainable and energy saving construction materials.
Desired Qualifications and Experience
- You will be experienced in design management and architecture. Particularly in real estate, new build residential and listed building developments.
- Bachelor’s degree in architecture, or a relevant professional qualification. RIBA or Chartered Member of ARB.
- The ability to manage and effectively collaborate with various departments and stakeholders such as property owners, project management companies, design consultants, architects and operators to implement design projects.
- A strong understanding of the design processes, CAD systems, drawings, models, and RIBA design stages, or its equivalent.
- An up-to date knowledge of the Scottish building and planning regulations.
- Self-assured communicator with excellent interpersonal skills. You will have experience with and feel comfortable liaising directly with high profile clients and stakeholders.
Benefits and Perks:
- Competitive Pay
- Private Medical Health
- Company Pension Scheme
- Participation in the company bonus scheme
- Assistance can be given for relocating to the area
- Use of on-site staff gym
- Access to staff activities
- Work-Family Culture
- Meals on duty