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Senior Design Manager (Façade)
Location: Site-based in Cambridge (4 days per week), with flexibility for 1 working-from-home day
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Start Time: 7am
Pay Rate: £41 per hour
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the design process for façade packages in major construction projects, ensuring design excellence and compliance with regulations.
- Oversee the delivery of façade design for projects exceeding £100M, with particular expertise in projects that include unitized façades.
- Manage the design and construction of façades, including managing performance mock-ups and ensuring they inform façade design decisions.
- Collaborate with Façade Consultants, Façade Sub-contractors, and other project stakeholders to achieve timely and cost-effective solutions for complex façade challenges.
- Manage the façade design process for high-risk buildings (over 18m and habitable), ensuring full compliance with the Building Safety Act and other relevant safety regulations.
- Manage a team of design professionals and subcontractors to deliver high-quality façade designs and oversee the installation and commissioning stages.
- Provide strategic leadership to the façade design team and support the development and mentoring of junior staff.
- Maintain a high level of communication and collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
- Ensure designs adhere to project specifications and regulatory compliance, managing any risks associated with façade design and safety.
- Provide technical expertise and guidance to the project team, ensuring that design solutions are both innovative and practical.
Key Requirements:
- 8-years working in a Design Manager role for a Tier 1 Main Contractor in UK
- Experience in delivering major projects in excess of £100M
- Experience in delivering design for facade packages in excess of £30M, inclusive of unitized façade
- Experience in delivering performance mock-up’s, with output used to inform façade design
- Experience in delivering projects now considered as’ High-Risk Buildings’ under Building Safety Act (over 18m and habitable)
- Experience in management of Façade Consultant to deliver façade design for review and collaboration with Façade Sub-contractor
- Experience in managing large-scale European Façade Sub-contractor
- Degree qualified in a technical subject appropriate for role – required to demonstrate competence to Building Safety Regulator as part of approvals under Building Safety Act
- Professionally chartered to a body appropriate for role – required to demonstrate competence to Building Safety Regulator as part of approvals under Building Safety Act
- Site based 4-days per week, with flexibility for 1 working from home day – ideally someone within 1 hour of travelling distance to Cambridge
