Tender Design Manager in Tidworth
Posted by Thomas Search
£55,000 – £64,000 a year
Tidworth · Permanent
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.
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