At Sweet Projects, we work with the data, defence and energy sectors. We are a comprehensive design, construction and engineering provider, offering services spanning site acquisition, architecture, and refurbishment to client occupancy. In our world, there are no simple projects, only specialist needs and clever solutions.
We are a general contracting business, drawing on over forty years of specialised industry experience to provide excellent service, sustain long-term partnerships and achieve the highest quality outcome for key clients, whilst maintaining financial commitments.
Built around you is Sweet Project’s approach to business. It is our brand promise, not just to our clients, but to our people. From the inside out, built around you is in our DNA.
Our team is the cornerstone of our firm, and we take pride in nurturing their talents and fostering their professional growth.
We proudly invest in all the people our success rests on. Building our company around our people and their wellbeing, safety, and work/life balance – these vitally important values act as the standards against which we must judge ourselves. That’s why we’re constantly working to do things better tomorrow than we do today.
We look for a lot of elements when we’re hiring at Sweet Projects – skills, character. But above all else, it is your behaviours that shine through. Regardless of how many years of experience, or who you have worked for previously, if you have the drive and the passion, there is nothing you can’t achieve here.
Our Values
* Create Confidence – Enabling and Empowering Teamwork
* Go Beyond – Evolving and developing, every day
* Add Value – From the first moment, we take the initiative
* Be Respectful – Long term relationships with integrity
* Focus on the Mission – We work together, focusing on our collective strengths
“We’ve hired some of the best in the business, to come here, bring their expertise with them, but leave their industry frustrations behind. We’re all about empowering our people to do things the right way, not simply the conventional way, enabling the environment and culture to excel and thrive in” - Gareth Sweet – CEO.
About the Role
The Senior Design Manager is responsible for leading all aspects of design delivery, from the bid stage through to project completion. This involves developing and implementing a strategy to ensure the design meets client requirements while ensuring compliance and assurance, achieves safety, sustainability, and environmental objectives, offers cost-effective solutions that deliver value for both Sweet Projects and the client, adheres to client timescales, and aligns with Sweet Project’s “Perfect Delivery” philosophy.
The role encompasses full accountability for design delivery across contract obligations, programme, procurement, design details, construction, cost/income, quality, health, safety, environment, business processes, and administration.
The Senior Design Manager works closely with project leads (e.g., project/bid managers) and the Head of Design to ensure that the strategy delivers designs that meet client specifications without exceeding requirements, are cost-effective, buildable, and safe to build and operate, and are available in a timely manner to support procurement and construction schedules.
The Senior Design Manager acts as the primary liaison between the Design Team, Sweet Projects internal teams, and subcontractor designers. The role requires technical expertise, strong management skills, and commercial awareness to successfully deliver project outcomes.
Responsibilities
* Ensuring all design-related contract obligations are met
* Understanding the contract and Sweet Projects obligations for design delivery, ensuring compliance with all terms.
* Managing the contract change process, following controls and procedures to mitigate risks.
* Gaining a thorough knowledge of Employers’ Requirements (ERs) and Contractual Provisions (CPs), ensuring designers align with these obligations without exceeding them at Sweet Projects expense.
* Ensuring designs meet ERs and CPs without unnecessary elaboration, and producing detailed Information Required Schedules for timely delivery to the Employer and designers.
* Advising on provisional sum instruction dates to meet project timelines and obtaining necessary Employer approvals for design details.
* Managing planning matters, securing Building Control approvals on time, and mitigating risks to Sweet Projects.
* Addressing historical design issues with novated designers and ensuring inherited responsibilities are understood.
* Discharging all other design-related obligations under the contract.
* Complying with policies, processes, and procedures outlined in the Integrated Management System and Information Security Management System.
Experience
* Design and engineering construction knowledge
* Technical and building construction expertise
* Familiarity with current Building Regulations
* Knowledge of Health & Safety / CDM Regulations
* Experience in coordinating, managing, and providing technical guidance
* Strong understanding of the planning process, with ideally proven success working with various London authorities
Qualifications
* Hold a relevant industry qualification (RIBA, ICE, CIOB)
* Valid CSCS Card
Key Relationships (internal and external)
The role will interface with the following key people:
* Managing Director
* CEO
* Bid Director
* Project Delivery Team
* Health & Safety professionals
* Client team & advisors
* Sub-Contractors and suppliers
Sweet Projects is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that our success is built on the success of our employees. We are committed to providing a supportive and rewarding work environment that helps our employees to achieve their personal and professional goals.
Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.
We are an inclusive organization and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates. Selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone.
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