Design Manager Facades

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Job description

Facades Design Manager

I am looking for an experienced Senior Facades Design Manager to work within the London area / Flexible working.

This is an amazing job opportunity that gives you the flexibility of working from home, being on-site a couple of days a week and then in the office for possibly 1 day a week if required.

This is working for a long standing client of mine who are expanding and in need of someone to help run the Design Team Most of the projects are re-Cladding various properties and a previous role within cladding/EWI/rainscreen cladding/facades or any related industry is desired.

Design Manager

* Management and audit of the assigned projects in its support of design, in conjunction with the relevant commercial & site teams.

* Manage specifications and drawings, including creation and amendments, where design is applicable.

* Liaise with Site Managers to assist in quality of delivery of core services.

* Manage, motivate and appraise staff that reports directly to the Design Manager.

* Liaison with H&S and other departments as required to improve business processes and maintain quality, throughout the company.

* Liaison with manufacturers, external structural engineers and architects.

Design Manager

* Collation, management and monitoring of specifications, drawings related calculations and design process from start to finish on the assigned projects, where company design is applicable.

* Liaison with manufacturers and project teams including distribution of relevant documentation.

* Respond to technical queries and make recommendations to resolve problems.

* Respond to ad-hoc problems and raise with Head of Design accordingly.

* Understand commercial implications of risks, issues and recommendations.

* Management and monitoring of design specifications and drawings for other external/sub-contract works (i.e. windows, roofing, M&E), etc. Key tasks

* Visit sites on a planned and ad-hoc basis.

* Attend regular meetings with Site Teams, as required.

* Attend Client Design Meetings

* Resolve site issues and make recommendations for future changes to Head of Design.

* Management of direct reporting staff.Design Manager

* Competencies Role-specific:

* Technical qualifications.

* Experienced design manager, within environmental construction projects.

* CSCS card.

* DSB checked as required for specific sites (e.g. schools).

General IT: ? Competent user MS Excel, MS Word, Microsoft Outlook email and calendars. ? Competent user Project Probe. ? Expert CAD user

Please send me your CV in the first instance or call me.

IMPORTANT - Please also send me samples of relevant work as this will help with my selection of relevant people. Thank You