Job Description

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Meet the recruiter

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Richard Dawkins

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Benefits

Life assurance



Private medical insurance



Additional holiday purchase opportunities



Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%



Enhanced family leave & policies



Share plan schemes



Free health & wellbeing services



Green car scheme




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Senior Design Manager

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We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Regional Construction business based in Waterbeach, Cambridge. Projects you can expect to work on range in value up to 80m across sectors including Education, Health, Research and Commercial.

Location

: Waterbeach, Cambridge

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

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Design Manager you'll be working within the Construction team, across projects in both Pre Construction and live on site.



Your day to day will include:


Management and delivery of design information in accordance with the agreed design programme and deliverable schedule Ensuring that our appointed design consultants carry out their duties in line with their appointment, interrogating returns to ensure compliance with standards and brief Design input at both preconstruction and construction stage of projects The production of design programmes, design scopes, design responsibility matrices, appointments, schedules Attending/chair necessary meetings and workshops with internal and external stakeholders

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if:


Experience of delivering high value, complex design work from the main contractor perspective Ability to organise, plan, programme and manage workloads Experience of site/contract procedures would be an advantage




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



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Senior Design Manager job description_July 25.docx

Location

: Waterbeach

Vacancy ID

: 9102

Background check

: SC - Security Clearance

Closing Date:

18 Dec 2025

Flexible Working

: Yes
Flexible working could include part time, job share, condensed hours, or flexible start/end times.

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