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United Infrastructure

UK infrastructure construction and maintenance provider

Senior Design Coordinator

Construction ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWarrington, UK£70k

About the Job

Requirements

  • Use a proactive management style.
  • Lead and coordinate with managers across a wider team.
  • Prioritise and delegate, negotiate, motivate, and communicate to influence others and meet objectives.
  • Apply an analytical approach and attention to detail.
  • Demonstrate leadership, assertiveness, decisiveness, flexibility, time management, organisation, meeting effectiveness, and ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.
  • Review drawings and identify buildability and technical issues.
  • Manage direct reports effectively, including goal setting, performance management, feedback, direction, support, and coaching.
  • Apply problem-solving and decision-making skills.
  • Communicate effectively with all levels of management and project teams, internally and externally.
  • Have a proven track record of managing all aspects of the design and technical process for residential buildings.
  • Maintain current construction industry knowledge, including legislation and procedures.
  • Hold a valid driving licence.
  • Understand the methodology and sequencing process for delivering construction projects, including design and pre-construction activities.
  • Have strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Have high-rise development experience.
  • Understand the building safety legislative framework, including the Building Safety Act, Building Regulations dutyholder roles and competency requirements, and the HRB Procedure Regulations.
  • Have strong technical knowledge and skills to assess, challenge, and monitor design-work compliance.
  • Have experience in designer scoping.
  • Have a minimum Level 4 (HNC/NVQ4) Architectural qualification, or an equivalent design-, technical-, and/or construction-based qualification.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure project design and technical aspects are delivered on budget and to programme by effectively managing external consultants and communicating with the wider team and business partners.
  • Ensure designs are coordinated, meet company requirements and current regulations, and obtain necessary approvals to enable site starts in line with agreed programmes and safety standards.
  • Lead technical and design processes, teams, and subcontractors through design, procurement, and construction; monitor progress to ensure timely, on-budget delivery.
  • Manage technical design of schemes in line with agreed programmes, company targets, revenue, quality, cost effectiveness, and buildability objectives.
  • Review and contribute to allocated bids by appraising technical design information, assessing design requirements and compliance, identifying consultant fee requirements, and producing design programmes.
  • Assess received information, identify value-engineering opportunities and risks, collate consultant costs, and prepare contractor proposals.
  • Review employer’s requirements technical specifications.
  • Produce, develop, control, and manage project-specific design programmes and provide regular progress reports.
  • Produce project-specific design scopes and procure consultant and subcontractor designers.
  • Assess competency assessment questionnaires and supporting evidence from consultant and subcontractor designers.
  • Monitor and manage consultant fees and invoicing.
  • Fulfil the CDM Principal Designer role.
  • Fulfil the Building Regulations Principal Designer role and act as the named Designated Individual.
  • Review and interrogate consultant and subcontractor designs to ensure compliance with legislation, system literature, planning consent, buildability, completeness, presentation, best value, accuracy, and information requirements, and to eliminate risk.
  • Review and assess alternative build methods and practices.
  • Manage and coordinate external consultants’ day-to-day design, coordination, and technical work to meet time, quality, budget, and technical requirements.
  • Ensure designs comply with company standards and budgetary constraints.
  • Organise and manage technical coordination workshops, package reviews, and design team meetings on a weekly, fortnightly, or monthly basis.
  • Ensure building design elements are fully coordinated, including fire safety, structures, mechanical and electrical systems, façades, internal specifications, service strategies, and maintenance strategies.
  • Issue complete, correct, and coordinated packages to Commercial and Construction teams.
  • Establish the scope required for survey and investigative works.
  • Maintain and deliver in accordance with company values.
  • Manage subcontractor and supplier design approvals and ensure timely turnaround.
  • Monitor subcontractor design approvals and maintain a programme-aligned tracker.
  • Manage the flow of information to Commercial, Operations, and Client teams.
  • Update and coordinate monthly design schedules.
  • Chair and deliver design package presentations with consultant and subcontractor designers.
  • Review and coordinate design and technical issues with Commercial and Operations teams.
  • Monitor changes from the client, design consultants, subcontractors, and construction team; manage variation change control relating to drawing revisions, construction programmes, and costs.
  • Collate required information and liaise with Planning Authorities and Building Control to make submissions in line with programme and obtain necessary approvals.
  • Oversee registration and distribution of design and technical information.
  • Monitor information processing through document-management-system workflows.
  • Ensure current drawings are filed correctly and design information is exchanged according to company protocol.
  • Undertake site visits as required.
  • Attend site and project meetings.
  • Monitor site work to ensure it meets benchmarks and the design specification.
  • Manage, investigate, and promptly resolve requests for information from site teams and subcontractors.
  • Review design issues and advise on corrective measures.
  • Monitor and obtain critical certificates required for completion and handovers.
  • Oversee and participate in compiling handover information, including the golden thread, health and safety files, operations and maintenance manuals, and resident packs.
  • Comply with company policies, procedures, and instructions.
  • Comply with responsibilities under the group health, safety, and environmental policy.
  • Deliver the company’s health and safety objectives in all aspects of the work.

Desired Qualifications

  • Bring a focus on construction and customer satisfaction, with an emphasis on high standards and excellence.
  • Have a proven track record of design requirements for procurement and construction purposes.
  • Have in-depth knowledge of contractual requirements, section agreements, and utility application processes.
  • Have a tenacious and driven approach.
  • Have strong practical knowledge of construction work types, methods, and design solutions.
  • Have experience producing and managing design programmes.
  • Have knowledge of PAS 9980 fire risk assessments, EWS1s, and FRAEW.
  • Have temporary works knowledge and experience.
  • Have experience with computer-aided design tools, including AutoCAD or Revit.
  • Have knowledge and understanding of building information modelling.
  • Be a member of a relevant professional body, such as CIOB, CIAT, or RICS.

About the Company

United Infrastructure

UK infrastructure construction and maintenance provider

United Infrastructure provides critical infrastructure solutions in the UK for water, energy, power, telecoms, and property services, with two main arms: Utility Infrastructure and Social Infrastructure. It wins revenue by securing contracts for large projects and long-term maintenance frameworks, including social housing repairs and major energy/utility schemes such as a CO2 pipeline. The company differentiates itself by pursuing acquisitive growth to broaden its technical capabilities and capabilities across multiple sectors, plus its focus on large, long-dated contracts. Its goal is to strengthen its position in the critical infrastructure and energy transition space by expanding its technical footprint and customer base through selective acquisitions and steady project delivery.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
England, United Kingdom
Founded
2004

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