Design Manager

My client a main contractor based in Ipswich are seeking to strengthen their award winning and successful team by recruiting a Design Manager to manage the pre construction stage of design management contributing positively to winning new work. for Key Responsibilities * Manage the pre-construction design process in line. * Provide design management support to the Preconstruction team ensuring all design matters are compliant with relevant legislation, tender brief, and contract requirements * Analyse Tender documents and identify required design responses * Engage with the pre-construction team to agree scope of design requirements and allocation of responsibilities * Investigate and recommend alternative and innovative solutions with change impact assessment * Chair and record design workshops * Assess design and delivery risks and recommend mitigation * Engage with the supply chain to verify design issues and review tender offers. * Support and contribute to the tender quality submission with written responses to tender questions * Provide design input to the tender submission whole life programme. * Support digital aspects of tender evaluation and submission * Provide a technical handover pack for the delivery team Key Skills & Knowledge * Contractually aware * Ability to develop and implement design management processes * Able to work to tight deadlines, organise and plan own workload * IT skills * Capable of defining design responsibilities and scopes of work for design consultants and subcontractors * Demonstrable skills in reviewing tender designs * Creating design programmes to be included in Master programme identifying relevant design milestones and deliverables * Able to assess CDM / Safety and design risks and identify mitigation strategies * Able to write comprehensive Contractors Proposals and tender question responses for inclusion in tender submissions * Innovation experience of differing systems and ability to adapt ideas. Research new technical solutions. * Value engineering able to lead design reviews and provide comprehensive assessment of options * Communicates with colleagues and clients in a warm and persuasive way both formally and informally. Alters style and manner to suit audience. * Plans ahead, prioritise tasks and monitors progress against plan, making alterations where necessary and organises required resources. * Considers potential problems in advance and identifies opportunities and threats through analysing trends. Guides others in implementing solutions. * Ensures that all viewpoints are considered and gains agreement on mutually acceptable outcomes, whilst maintaining the interests of the business. * Assesses risk and consequence before making a judgement on available evidence and ensures that final decision is implemented. * Encourages, supports and values contributions of others, shares credit and responds positively to requests for help. Shares knowledge. * Recognised by others as having useful skills and knowledge, which are readily shared. Keeps up to date with new aspects of job role