Senior Design Manager

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Senior Design Manager – Balfour Beatty plc

Lead design excellence across large‑scale complex developments, partnering with Project Directors, consultants and contractors to deliver innovative, buildable and commercially sound solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement design proposals, ensuring they meet customer requirements, budget constraints and gain client approval.
  • Brief and manage the Design Team, including M&E elements and any third‑party or novated design teams, verifying competence and resources.
  • Manage consultants and align design programme with the contract programme.
  • Provide advice on buildability to design and construction teams on all packages.
  • Liaise with statutory bodies and authorities (town planning, building control, services).
  • Ensure compliance with relevant building codes, regulations and safety standards.
  • Review, reduce or eliminate construction risks throughout designs.

Qualifications

  • Senior level experience delivering design services in a work‑winning environment and implementing design strategies.
  • Leadership skills to deliver design services timely with a customer and business sector focus.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, forming effective relationships under time pressure.
  • Experience leading or coaching a team is desirable.
  • Numeracy and bid/report writing requirement.
  • Hands‑on experience of delivering work‑winning bids timely.
  • Good working knowledge of BIM.
  • Experience within current procurement forms.
  • Relevant professional membership (e.g. RIBA, BIBSE, IET) recommended.
  • Valid CSCS card required.
  • Excellent IT skills; Microsoft Office essential.
  • Detailed knowledge of codes of practice and regulatory material applicable to the business stream.
  • Desire to continuously pursue innovation and development focused on the customer and business stream.

Benefits

  • Smart working with flexibility such as staggered start/finish times and up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
  • 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
  • Family‑friendly policies: 28 weeks full pay maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay paternity/partners leave.
  • Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

Why work for us

At Balfour Beatty, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects, developing, building and maintaining vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Balfour Beatty is a Disability Confident Employer committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We offer applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more information, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

Application Information

To apply, please submit your CV and a brief cover letter through the Balfour Beatty careers portal. We encourage applications from a diverse and inclusive pool.

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Location:
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£80,000 - £100,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Marketing & Media

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