Senior Design Manager - Architect - Life Sciences

Are you passionate about exemplary Design Management?

Do you have end to end Design Management experience?

Are you considering what's next for your career?

Then we would love to hear from you!

The Opportunity:

Laing O'Rourke have an opportunity for Senior Design Manager to join the team on an exciting Life Sciences project in the South East, based from our Dartford Head Office. A Laing O'Rourke Senior Design Manager leads the delivery of effective design across multiple projects, or a single large scale project. They provide a focus for, and lead the pre-construction phase design processes, liaising with the client, the design team, in-house bid team and the operations team. On live projects, they implement and lead the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework, to enable risks to be reduced.

The Laing O'Rourke Senior Design Manager is a senior member of the Design Job Family and Technical Function, which is there to ensure technical excellence, assurance and performance across all projects and opportunities from pre-project, early engagement and work winning through to detailed delivery. All of our designers are part of our Engineering Enterprise which aims to maximise and realise the potential of design to increase certainty on our projects.

What will the role look like?

• Providing a focus for and leading the pre-construction phase briefing and design processes.
• Leading LOR's design management procedures, providing a functional link between the commercial and construction teams and the designers throughout the project life.
• Implementing the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework.
• Implementing agreed processes for the production, control and distribution of design information at different project stages.
• Ensuring regular progress reporting of the design.
• Ensuring design information is thoroughly reviewed: for buildability, safety and maintainability, ‘completeness & compliance' and technical suitability before use.
• Assisting the Design Leader in promoting innovation in design management, methodology, processes and practices.
• Assisting the Design Leader in promoting the application and adoption of the Company's vision and values in all design management activities.

Technical Capabilities:

• Creating and owning the design brief.
• Design optimisation.
• Design for Manufacture and Assembly.
• Managing consultancies.
• Information and Change Control.
• Design compliance.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• First degree in Architecture or other appropriate construction related qualification plus design related experience.
• Approx 10 years' experience, with sector specialism as well as deep and broad experience managing the design of design – construction or building services projects. Likely to have international experience.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us: We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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