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Design Manager
EQUAL RESOURCING LIMITED
- Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
- Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
About
Are you someone who can manage complexity, hold teams accountable, and deliver design outputs that actually help projects succeed. If you're process-driven, commercially switched-on, and can translate between designers, site teams and clients without losing your mind, then we need to talk. We need someone to run our clients' Design office and make sure design actually gets delivered on time, within budget, and without drama. You'll be managing the team, coordinating with external consultants, keeping projects on track, and making sure everything that leaves the office is buildable and compliant. This isn't a design engineer role, you won't be sitting doing calculations or drawings. It's about managing the operation: planning resources, setting up processes that actually work, chairing reviews, challenging designs when they need it, and being the go-to person when projects need design support.
YOUR NEW ROLE Own day-to-day running of the design office across UK and international teams
Manage internal resources and external supply chain partners
Balance workload, handle recruitment, set up procedures and approval routes
Plan programmes, hold people to milestones, manage document control
Lead design kick-offs, scope meetings, reviews and technical audits
Coordinate teams and consultants to deliver practical, integrated solutions
Manage RFIs, change control, queries
keep decisions documented
Ensure designs meet contract requirements, standards, CDM compliance
Drive right-first-time culture, manage non-conformances
Set and track design budgets, monitor progress, flag risks early
Line manage the team
objectives, coaching, performance
Champion CDE use and model-based coordination
ABOUT YOU Must have project/business management background, ideally with design management experience in civils/infrastructure or contracting
Experience running multi-disciplinary teams across projects, coordinating suppliers
Technical literacy to challenge designs (don't need to produce them, just spot issues)
Strong planning, communication skills, comfortable chairing reviews
Commercial awareness: budgets, forecasting, NEC contracts, change control
CDM 2015 and design risk management knowledge
Familiar with CDEs and tools like ProjectWise, Aconex, 365, MS Project
SALARY AND BENEFITS £65,000 - £80,000 depending upon experience
Bonus (discretionary)
31 days annual leave
Generous Pension
Life insurance (4X salary)
Reference Number: T10 To be considered for this position or other opportunities, contact Tash Johnson at Equal Resourcing Ltd or click "Apply Now." Equal Resourcing Ltd is serving as a recruitment agency for this job opening. Your application implies your consent for us to process your data and communicate with you concerning this application and associated services, in compliance with GDPR regulations. Equal Resourcing Ltd may use AI-assisted tools to support internal administrative tasks and document drafting. We do
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Languages
- English
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