Design Manager

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?

Are you an experienced Design Manager ready to make a significant impact on one of the UK's most ambitious infrastructure projects? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Routewide delivery team as a Design Manager, based in Kingsbury, near Birmingham, working on the HS2 Project. You’ll play a pivotal role in managing the design process across 10 key buildings supporting the railway infrastructure for the HS2 Project.

This is your chance to contribute to a project that will shape the future of Britain's transport landscape!

What You’ll Be Doing 

You will oversee the development and implementation of the design solutions, ensuring they meet employer requirements, budgets, and time constraints. 

You will coordinate and manage design packages from subcontractors, ensuring full compliance with design intent, while leading value engineering to optimise solutions. 

You will manage design change control, ensuring proper documentation and approval processes throughout the project lifecycle. 

You will lead and mentor a team of design coordinators, engineers, and BIM specialists, ensuring the seamless delivery of design elements. 

You will collaborate closely with stakeholders, including designers, subcontractors, procurement teams, and construction teams, ensuring smooth integration of design components.  You will lead the design deliverables programme, ensuring timely delivery and clear reporting throughout the project phases.

What We’re Looking For 

Proven experience in delivering design services during preconstruction and construction phases of major building projects. 

Qualified Civil Engineer or similar equivalent, with multi-disciplinary design experience. 

Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience in matrix organizations. 

Proficiency in BIM and working knowledge of NEC contract forms. 

Deep understanding of CDM 2015 Regulations, particularly in Designer and Principal Designer duties. 

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to balance multiple priorities under time constraints. 

Ability to provide practical “buildability” advice and contribute to lean construction practices. 

Desire to continuously pursue innovation and best practices in design management.

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us

• Car/ car allowance
• Flexible working available for some roles
• Free parking
• Travel allowance for eligible candidates
• Family friendly leave policies
• Excellent pension contributions
• Healthcare
• Health risk assessments
• Access to employee assistance programmes
• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:

• 9.3km of viaducts

• 62 overbridges

• 35 cuttings

• 56 culverts

• 62 embankments

• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels

• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

Flexible working

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.