Tender Design Manager

Our client is a leading support services organisation, with a long term 35-year PFI contract, providing construction & facilities management services, across a complex range of commercial & industrial defence asset in Wiltshire & Hampshire.

Your Role

• Manage a portfolio of lifecycle projects from inception (RIBA 0) through to the start of delivery (RIBA 5), balancing technical requirements, programme objectives, commercial priorities and stakeholder expectations.
• Define project scope, funding routes and delivery approaches with AMP managers and stakeholders, implementing appropriate design strategies across projects and the wider lifecycle programme.
• Manage and coordinate design consultants, design and build contractors, and contractor design elements where required.
• Provide ongoing design support through construction and handover phases, ensuring maintainable solutions, suitable specifications, operating manuals and warranties.
• Collaborate with commercial, procurement, maintenance, asset management and authority stakeholders to achieve value for money and sustainable outcomes.
• Engage with Building Control, Planning Authorities and Fire Officers to ensure compliance requirements are incorporated from an early stage.
• Lead design coordination, manage documentation from scope development through to construction issue, and ensure compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
• Oversee design risk assessments, design programmes, progress reporting, meetings and multidisciplinary team coordination activities.
• Support procurement and construction teams throughout tendering, design development and project delivery.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree, HND or HNC in Building, Engineering or Architecture. Professional qualifications in Architecture, Engineering, Construction or Project Management are advantageous.
• Proven design management experience across complex multi-funded projects, with current knowledge of JSPs, Building Regulations and fire standards within a defence environment.
• Experience delivering sustainability improvement projects and exposure to PFI/PPP arrangements and two-stage tendering processes are essential.
• Experience working within a BIM environment would be beneficial.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, excellent IT and organisational abilities, and the capability to influence and guide stakeholders. You will be a collaborative team player with a flexible and pragmatic approach who is comfortable working in a changing environment.