Senior Design Manager

Job description / Role

Established since 1990, Mace is an international consultancy and construction company, employing over 4,000 people, operating across 70 countries. Its core business is programme and project management, cost consultancy, construction delivery and facilities management. Mace is truly multi-disciplinary with services spanning the entire property and infrastructure lifecycle.

We focus on major, complex or challenging schemes, where we offer genuine value to our clients and exciting opportunities to our staff across UK, Western & Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia.

With industry leading standards in Health, Safety and Quality, Mace are an innovative organisation renowned for its clear values of Safety First Second Nature, Client Focus, Pursuit of a Better Way, Integrity, Opportunity and One Mace, delivering a consistent, quality service worldwide.

Responsible for leading the Design Management function for a large number of projects which make up a section on one programme of work. This package includes many technical, complex buildings.

The successful person will:
- Establish protocols and mechanisms to create an environment where the design and engineering communities can drive integration and innovation.
- Establish and implement a set of integrated policies, procedures, tools and systems to consistently execute, monitor and measure design across the projects.
- Coordinate interfaces and provide continuity across projects.
- Interpret the strategic brief into project specific design briefs.
- Be consistent in approach to design, establishing deliverables by project stage.
- Define roles and responsibilities for the design team.
- Enable the client to make value decisions relating to design choices.
- Establish business and functional requirements to be met by the design (linked to requirements management).
- Audit design and design development processes.
- Prepare design management strategies.
- Introduce design stages and deliverables.
- Review Consultants detailed design programmes.
- Review design team structure and resource against programme and milestone requirements.
- Ensure design team is suitably resourced.
- Document the design, ensuring consistency in versioning.
- Lead decision making within Design Management Team where necessary.
- Monitor the development of design in relation to function, quality, cost, and programme in relation to the Strategic Brief, its evolution through the use of design development tracking tools into a Project Brief and ultimately a Final Design.
- Monitor progress against design programme, identify areas of slippage, delay or conflict and review consultants plan to mitigate.
- Audit completeness of design information through gap analysis and design validation reports.
- Establish task ownership within the design team.
- Produce added value by contribution to development of the design.
- Produce, review and implement employer requirement documents.
- Act as technical advisor to the client.
- Initiate and support the technical capabilities of the team.
- Maintain contact with key technical leaders.
- Lead technical solutions on projects.
- Drive innovation and utilise technological advancement
- Contribute to and lead design peer reviews in alignment with the QMS system.

Requirements

- Degree Qualification is preferred.
- Minimum of 12-15 years experience is essential.
- Regional (UAE, Qatar, KSA, Oman) experience is preferred.
- High End Building or Major Project experience is essential.
- A Main Contracting, Management Contracting, Construction Management, Project Management Consultancy or Engineering background are all acceptable.
- Must have experience with well recognized, blue-chip construction organisations.
- Candidates MUST be prepared to live and work in the location of the project.
- Must be able to demonstrate longevity in previous work history.

Package:
- Full Tax free salary package that includes Basic Salary and Living Allowances.
- Full international private medical cover.
- Life insurance.
- Mobilisation / Demobilisation allowance.

About the Company

Engage was formed in 2007 in response to frustrations at the level of service delivery offered by traditional large recruitment agencies working in the construction market. With a belief in providing a truly knowledgeable, precise and quality driven service, Engage strives to offer a recruitment experience to both employers and candidates that is unrivalled in the marketplace.

We provide precision staffing solutions, including contingency and executive search, within the construction and commercial marketplaces. Our enduring relationships with market leading organisations in the region and overseas means we have access to the best candidates and the best vacancies.