Senior Design Manager

Long established building contractor who have a large pipeline of work urgently require a Senior Design Manager for their busy office in SE London.

The company, predominantly build apartment blocks for Local Authorities and Residential Providers these will be RC blocks to an affordable specification and built throughout London and Greater London areas. The apartments will be between 8 – 18 storey (generally speaking) and all works are won through competitive tendering and bidding which they are very successful at given the work in the pipelines. They are a building contractor and work on tight margins (as per the majority of the building contracting market) and need someone who is familiar with this kind of setup.

The ideal candidate will be time served as a Senior Design Manager having come through the ranks of Design Coordinator and Design Manager level and ready to run a small team of Design Managers and Doc Controllers. The successful candidate will also have lengthy experience of having worked for a medium sized Main Contractor and understand the tight margins these type companies work by. It is imperative the successful person for this role has a detailed grasp of Value Engineering and how savings can be made.

This is an exciting role for the right individual, one that will be very rewarding and interesting with a good mix of projects. Reporting to the Managing Director this role has progressive opportunities be a Head of Design or Director position.

In return you can expect a good salary, discretionary bonus, progression and an interesting solid role.