Senior Design Manager

Senior Design Manager | Major Projects | Bristol

💼 Salary: Competitive + Package (DOE)

📍 Location: Bristol

🏗️ Sector: Construction | Design Management | Major Projects

Walker & Sloan are working with an outstanding regional construction contractor to recruit a Senior Design Manager to deliver large, complex construction projects across the South West.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly respected contractor delivering major schemes up to £100m, where strong design leadership and technical coordination are critical to successful project delivery.

🏗️ The Role

As Senior Design Manager, you will take responsibility for managing and coordinating the design process across major construction projects from pre-construction through to completion.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading and managing multidisciplinary design teams

• Coordinating consultants, subcontractors and internal project teams

• Managing design risk, change control and technical queries

• Ensuring designs meet programme, cost and compliance requirements

• Supporting pre-construction activities, tender processes and bid submissions

✅ About You

• Proven experience as a Senior Design Manager or Design Manager

• Background working for a main contractor on large projects

• Strong understanding of design & build delivery

• Experience managing complex, multi-disciplinary design teams

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

💰 What’s on Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package

• Opportunity to work on major projects up to £100m

• Join a highly respected regional contractor

• Strong pipeline of large-scale work across the South West

📩 Interested?

Get in touch for a confidential discussion. Shortlisting is underway