About the role
Job Title: Senior Design Manager – Healthcare
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands
Company: Balfour Beatty Regional Buildings
Project: Healthcare
About the role
Help shape the design and delivery of complex healthcare projects in Birmingham.
Balfour Beatty is looking for an experienced Senior Design Manager with a strong healthcare construction background to join our team in Birmingham.
This is an excellent opportunity for an established Design Manager or Senior Design Manager who understands the complexities of delivering healthcare environments and can lead the design process from pre-construction through to project delivery.
You’ll play a key role in developing and implementing the project design strategy, ensuring that design solutions meet our customers’ requirements while remaining buildable, commercially viable, compliant and deliverable.
Working closely with our construction, commercial, M&E and project teams, you’ll provide leadership across the design process and help ensure we deliver high-quality healthcare projects for our customers.
What you'll be doing
As Senior Design Manager, you will:
- Lead the development and implementation of design proposals, ensuring they meet customer requirements, programme expectations and budget constraints.
- Develop and manage the project design strategy, ensuring the design provides a winning and deliverable solution.
- Lead and coordinate the Design Team, including the management and integration of M&E design elements.
- Manage consultants, third-party designers and novated design teams, ensuring designs meet project and customer specifications.
- Review the competence, capability and resources of external design teams where required.
- Provide advice and guidance on the buildability of design proposals across all project packages.
- Work collaboratively with construction, commercial, planning and building services teams to identify and resolve design challenges.
- Manage design information to ensure it is produced and released in line with the construction programme.
- Liaise with statutory bodies and authorities including planning, building control and utility providers.
- Identify design risks and opportunities and work with the wider project team to develop effective solutions.
- Drive collaboration between consultants, subcontractors, the customer and project delivery teams.
- Champion innovation, continuous improvement and digital ways of working throughout the design process.
Who we're looking for
We’re looking for someone with significant design management experience and a strong track record within the healthcare construction sector.
You will ideally have:
- Proven experience as a Design Manager or Senior Design Manager on major construction projects.
- Healthcare project experience, with an understanding of the design complexities and stakeholder requirements associated with healthcare environments.
- Experience managing design through pre-construction and project delivery.
- Strong experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams, including architectural, structural and M&E / building services disciplines.
- Excellent understanding of construction methodology and the ability to challenge designs from a buildability perspective.
- Experience managing external consultants, subcontractor design and novated design teams.
- Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- The ability to build effective relationships with customers, consultants and project delivery teams.
- A good working knowledge of BIM and digital design processes.
- Experience working with current forms of procurement.
- Detailed knowledge of relevant construction regulations, codes of practice and industry standards.
- A valid CSCS card.
- Relevant professional membership such as RIBA, CIBSE, IET or another appropriate professional body would be advantageous.
Why join us?
At Balfour Beatty, you'll have the opportunity to work with experienced teams delivering complex projects that make a genuine difference to the communities they serve.
This role offers the chance to take a leading position within the design function, influence projects from an early stage and work collaboratively across pre-construction and delivery.
If you’re an experienced Senior Design Manager with a healthcare construction background looking for your next opportunity in Birmingham, we’d like to hear from you.
Professional and personal development
The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.
We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.
We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10 approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.
70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
For further information about Balfour Beatty Scotland, please visit the Balfour Beatty careers website.
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Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK19808
