We're looking for a Lead Designer to join our project team based in the London Region.
Location : Based out of our London offices, with travel to London sites.
Contract : Permanent, Full-Time What will you be responsible for?
As a Lead Designer, you'll be working with Senior Digital Construction Manager and Building Services Leads to ensure that the design delivery process and Kier internal responsibilities across all disciplines is fully coordinated Your day to day will include: Provide technical leadership for the assigned Function (Healthcare/Public/Residential/Commercial).
Ensure that best practice for the technical function is applied to Pre-Con/Design/Delivery/Aftercare stages for the projects under your responsibility.
Ensure that the Function under your control is seen as a centre of excellence, through in house training, CDP, individual staff development plans.
Ensure all projects have Fire, Quality, Design start up meetings.
Where the whole design and delivery process is fully interrogated, and all risks/opportunities are identified.
Report directly to the Technical Assurance Director working collaboratively with the relevant Sector Lead / Region Director to manage the design and quality of a portfolio of projects within your specialism.
Line manage SDM/DM/ADMs as appropriate, directly on tenders and indirectly on live projects in connection with the projects PM.
Acting as the career manager / mentor for your teams under your remit both in your specialism and with the other Function Leads for general development.
Liaise with the Technical Assurance Director and Sector Lead / Region Director and visit the site Teams on a regular basis to ensure all parties are fulfilling their obligations and review the design programme and processes to ensure satisfactory performance of the project and site team with respect to design.
What are we looking for?
This role of Lead Designer is great for you if you have: Experience undertaking site audits Experience carrying out VLT reviews of projects under your responsibility Demonstrable experience in a design role within a main contractor environment Experience of BIM level 2 projects, including COBie data, LoDM.
Full UK Driving License We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome!
So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards and benefits We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.
You can see more information of benefits here .
Diversity and inclusion Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us.
We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more.
Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.
You can see our D&I action plan here .
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