Design Manager
| Posting date: | 01 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 December 2025 |
| Location: | CB25 9PD |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 9103 |
Summary
We're looking for a Design Manager to join our Regional Construction business based in Waterbeach, Cambridge.
Location: Waterbeach, Cambridge
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Design Manager you'll be working within the Design team, supporting them on projects up to £80m in value, across Education, Health, Commercial or Research sectors
Your day to day will include:
-Responsibility for the management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme and deliverable schedule.
-Ensuring that our appointed design consultants carry out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns to ensure compliance with standards and brief.
-Design input at both preconstruction and construction stage of projects.
-The production of design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules.
-Ensuring that the design is compliant to relevant legislation and technical requirements.
What are we looking for?
This role of Design Manager is great for you if you have:
-Demonstrable experience in a design role within a main contractor environment
-Excellent attention to detail
-Great stakeholder management capability and exceptional communication skills
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
#LI-RD1
Location: Waterbeach, Cambridge
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Design Manager you'll be working within the Design team, supporting them on projects up to £80m in value, across Education, Health, Commercial or Research sectors
Your day to day will include:
-Responsibility for the management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme and deliverable schedule.
-Ensuring that our appointed design consultants carry out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns to ensure compliance with standards and brief.
-Design input at both preconstruction and construction stage of projects.
-The production of design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules.
-Ensuring that the design is compliant to relevant legislation and technical requirements.
What are we looking for?
This role of Design Manager is great for you if you have:
-Demonstrable experience in a design role within a main contractor environment
-Excellent attention to detail
-Great stakeholder management capability and exceptional communication skills
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
#LI-RD1
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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.