Design Manager

The Vacancy

Wates are looking for a Design Manager to join our Residential team in our Southern region focusing initially in the Dorset and Hampshire areas.

If you are passionate about design in the residential sector, working within a team environment and with proven technical skills looking for an opportunity to challenge the norm, bring fresh new ideas, elevate and innovate yourself within the industry then join us and help create places for people to thrive.

This is a great opportunity to progress your career as part of a talented, diverse, and supportive team. Ideally suited to an individual that is seeking career progression to the Design Manager role from a junior position with an established background in delivering residential projects.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our Design Managers are a valuable part of our business, driving quality outcomes, enhancing buildability and fostering innovation. Design Managers 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 practice.

As our Design Manager, you will:

• Work on a project depending upon technical complexity and size, either as the sole design manager or part of a larger design team.
• Opportunity to work with our bid and preconstruction 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, produce and manage a realistic design programme and information required schedule, to satisfy design, procurement, and construction requirements.
• Review the current design of the project or package and undertake detailed risk and opportunities appraisal to mitigating risk, enhance buildability and add value prior to construction phase.
• 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, value management exercises as required to align expectations in this respect.
• Ensure compliance with all key stakeholders.
• Knowledge of key technical legislation and guidance in order to deliver a compliant design solution.
• Ensure the design has been reviewed and verified to achieve compliance and mitigate Health and Safety, design and buildability issues prior to construction and identify key risks and opportunities at each stage of the design and delivery process.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & profit share scheme
• Flexible working
• Car Allowance / Company Car
• Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
• Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
• One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the WATES Group)
• Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating 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.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.