senior design manager rushden northamptonshire united kingdom speke merseyside london greater london salford greater manchester solihull west midlands southampton hampshire

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager (Industrialised Design and Construction) to join our Industrialised Design and Construction team based nationally, with agile working.

Location: National, with agile working and travel to projects and offices as required
Hours: Full time - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in implementing, overseeing and continuously improving Kier's standardised design and construction platforms across Education, Healthcare and Ministry of Defence sectors. You'll help transform our investment in repeatable assets into real business value, improving technical compliance, design efficiency, quality and cost certainty. Working collaboratively across design, technical, procurement and construction teams, you'll ensure consistent application of solutions while capturing lessons learned and embedding improvements into future platform releases.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Design Manager (Industrialised Design and Construction), you'll be working within the Industrialised Design and Construction team, supporting them in delivering standardised design and construction platforms. Your day to day will include:

• Supporting the implementation of industrialised design platforms across projects and monitoring their use to identify opportunities for improvement
• Developing and refining standardised design solutions, components and specifications for key sectors
• Ensuring compliance with UK Building Regulations, technical standards and sector-specific requirements
• Building effective relationships with clients, designers, project teams and supply chain partners to support consistent implementation
• Identifying opportunities to improve productivity and sustainability through low-carbon materials, prefabrication and modern methods of construction

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Design Manager (Industrialised Design and Construction) is great for you if:

• You have a degree, professional qualification or equivalent experience in a construction-related discipline
• You have demonstrable experience in design management, technical management or technical assurance within construction
• You have practical knowledge of UK Building Regulations and technical standards
• You have experience implementing standardised design approaches, modular construction or design for manufacture and assembly
• You have strong stakeholder engagement, communication and project management skills with the ability to influence across disciplines

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. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

Thank you