Assistant Design Manager

Assistant Design Manager
Suffolk
Permanent
£50, 000k - £65,000k DOE
Mon - Fri

Calling out to all Assistant Design Managers?

One of our key clients are looking for experienced Assistant Design Manager to join their team. My client are a Main Contractor, who are have a superb reputation in the Construction industry and have been operating for nearly 50 years!
They deliver new build and refurbishment projects in a typical project value range from £0.5m – £15m in all the major sectors including commercial, educational, industrial, leisure, health and social housing.

Responsibilities:

- Ability to lead or assist and manage multi-disciplinary external design teams.
- Attending client meetings, site meetings and subcontractor meetings where required.
- Basic experience in the leisure, commercial, education and mixed-use markets, designing to both traditional and modern methods of construction.
- Review all design deliverables, including specialist supplier elements and interfaces to established that they are within budget, are fully coordinated and are buildable.
- Coordinate project team comments and resolve any design related construction queries with the design team.
- Knowledge of Building Regulations and the planning process.
- Basic understanding of the Building Safety Act.
- Ability to interpret Employers Requirements and other documents and assisting with the development of Contractors Proposal.
- An understanding of the design and risk management processes.
- Produce or assist with design programmes/controls for timely information release to procurement and construction delivery teams.
- Commercial awareness and value engineering to increase value to clients and drive down capital costs.
- Abide by and help ensure conformity to all business policies and processes.
- Assist and contribute to assigned/delegated tasks in a professional manner.

Must and nice to haves:

Have a Degree, HND or similar qualification in a construction discipline or currently working through a qualification.
Have construction experience design experience is desirable.
Be articulate and with the skills to produce clear and concise proposals.
Have good IT skills.
Work independently and manage own workload.
Be a good team player working with internal and external teams.
Have excellent inter-personal skills are essential.

This is an opportunity not to be missed!! So get in contact with me, for more information and we can have a confidential chat.

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