Design Manager Hampshire / Surrey
The Design Manager job is based on site in Basingstoke and then Guildford on a new residential project win.
Your new company
We are looking for a Design Manager to join our residential team in our Southern region, initially focusing on the Hampshire and Surrey areas. If you are passionate about design in the residential sector, enjoy working within a team environment, and have proven technical skills, this opportunity is for you.
We seek someone who can challenge the norm, bring fresh new ideas, improve, and innovate within the industry, helping to create places for people to thrive.
This is an excellent opportunity to progress your career as part of a talented, diverse, and supportive team. The role is ideally suited for someone seeking career progression to the Design Manager role from a junior position, with an established background in delivering residential development projects.
In your new role
Our Design Managers are valuable members of our business, driving quality outcomes, enhancing buildability, and fostering innovation. They work collaboratively with our customers and industry specialists to ensure that the design develops in accordance with the brief, with a firm focus on added value, compliance, commercial viability, and best practices. As our Design Manager, you will work on a project depending on its technical complexity and size, either as the sole design manager or part of a larger design team.
You will have the opportunity to work with our bid and pre-construction team and development managers on development and contracting opportunities, working to develop and grow our business and region. In collaboration with the project team, Lead Designer, and Consultant Team, you will produce and manage a realistic design programme and the information schedule information to satisfy design, procurement, and construction requirements.
You will review the current design of the project or package, undertake detailed risk and opportunities appraisal to mitigate risk, enhance buildability, and add value before the construction phase.
You will work closely with the Commercial and Operations Teams to ensure all design deliverables are compliant, fully coordinated, buildable, and within budget. You will organise, lead, and contribute to technical workshops and value management exercises to align expectations. You will ensure compliance with all key stakeholders and have knowledge of key technical legislation and guidance to deliver a compliant design solution.
You will ensure the design has been reviewed and verified to achieve compliance and mitigate health and safety, design, and buildability issues before construction, identifying key risks and opportunities at each stage of the design and delivery process.
What you’ll need to succeed
Previous experience in the UK as a Design Manager or Technical Manager for a Main Contractor or a Developer that builds houses or flats. Ideally, you would have a track record of managing the development of a brownfield site into new residential developments.
You will hold some form of UK-based education at college or university level, ideally in a construction or engineering-related discipline, have the right to work in the UK, have a full driving licence, have a high level of communication, numeracy, IT & digital skills and a good understanding of the construction process.
Attention to detail is vital due to the high level of compliance and governance required in the housing sector. You will be based full-time on site and be happy to work in an integrated site office.
What you’ll get in return
Is that we offer a competitive salary & profit share scheme, flexible working, car allowance or company car, and travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates). You will have access to extensive corporate benefits, including private, medical, pension with 8% employer contribution, a health and wellness programme, 26 days’ holidays plus bank holidays, and much more.
We provide one of the best learning and development programmes, customisable to support your career progression goals (around 7000 training sessions delivered to date).
We also offer industry-leading family leave benefits, including 26 weeks fully paid maternity and 12 weeks fully paid paternity. We are a leading family-owned development, building, and property maintenance company with over 125 years of legacy in the built environment. We are driven by our purpose of reimagining places for people to thrive, focusing on creating sustainable, inclusive, and opportunity-rich places.
We are committed to protecting nature and taking action on climate change, collaborating, and innovating with our partners. We create opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care. We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a disability-confident employer.
Our recruitment processes ensure that no one is treated less favourably due to an offending background. Architect/Design background. Ideally, development experience, working 42.5 hours per week on a new project wins.
What you need to do now
If you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now at Hays Crawley 01293 220402.