Senior Design Manager
| Posting date: | 02 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 October 2025 |
| Location: | NG7 2SZ |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 8491 |
Summary
We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our East Midlands Construction team in Nottingham.
Location: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Contract: Full time, Permanent
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
The Senior Design Manager will be key in coordinating, interrogating, and integrating the activities of our external design consultants to ensure that all is managed to programme timescales and quality standards.
Your day to day will include:
-Manage the design process during the pre-construction phase through to on site delivery.
-Interrogation of enquiry documents, in the form of an Employer's Requirements.
-Production of a Contractor's Proposal document in liaison with other internal departments.
-Drive innovative and cost effective solutions into the design.
-Progress design issues within a strict timescale & ensure designers meet information delivery dates.
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if you have:
-DfE experience would be great but is not essential
-Experience of delivering high value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective
-Ability to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads
-Understanding of Building Regulations and Planning Permission procedures
-Experience of site/contract procedures would be an advantage
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 benefitsWe'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 inclusionMaking 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
Location: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Contract: Full time, Permanent
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
The Senior Design Manager will be key in coordinating, interrogating, and integrating the activities of our external design consultants to ensure that all is managed to programme timescales and quality standards.
Your day to day will include:
-Manage the design process during the pre-construction phase through to on site delivery.
-Interrogation of enquiry documents, in the form of an Employer's Requirements.
-Production of a Contractor's Proposal document in liaison with other internal departments.
-Drive innovative and cost effective solutions into the design.
-Progress design issues within a strict timescale & ensure designers meet information delivery dates.
What are we looking for?
This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if you have:
-DfE experience would be great but is not essential
-Experience of delivering high value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective
-Ability to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads
-Understanding of Building Regulations and Planning Permission procedures
-Experience of site/contract procedures would be an advantage
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 benefitsWe'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 inclusionMaking 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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About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.