Senior Design Manager
Watkin Jones Crewe
Are you an experienced design professional ready to take ownership of complex, high-profile projects? We’re looking for a Senior Design Manager who thrives in a fast-paced environment, balancing creativity, technical precision, and commercial awareness to deliver outstanding results.
In this key role, you’ll manage the design and development process across a diverse portfolio, ensuring every project meets customer expectations, business objectives, and sustainability goals. You’ll be the bridge between innovation and execution—bringing ideas to life while maintaining the highest standards of safety, efficiency, and environmental responsibility.
This role is based at our Chester office, with flexibility to work from home and includes travel to project sites as required. What You’ll Be Doing You’ll be responsible for reviewing consultant appointments and ensuring compliance with agreed scopes of service.
You’ll coordinate design deliverables across disciplines, manage proposals within BIM and commercial constraints, and advise on buildability and technical feasibility. Your role will involve tracking progress, managing submissions to clients and statutory bodies, and identifying opportunities for value engineering and offsite/prefabrication.
You’ll also support sustainability initiatives, contribute to procurement planning, and help capture and share best practices across the business. Who we’re looking for We’re looking for someone with proven experience in a design or technical management role, who brings strong communication and stakeholder coordination skills.
You’ll have a deep understanding of design processes, construction methods, and commercial drivers, along with a passion for sustainability and innovation. Experience of high-rise PBSA (Purpose Built Student Accommodation) or BTR (Build to Rent) schemes is essential.
In this key role, you’ll manage the design and development process across a diverse portfolio, ensuring every project meets customer expectations, business objectives, and sustainability goals. You’ll be the bridge between innovation and execution—bringing ideas to life while maintaining the highest standards of safety, efficiency, and environmental responsibility.
This role is based at our Chester office, with flexibility to work from home and includes travel to project sites as required. What You’ll Be Doing You’ll be responsible for reviewing consultant appointments and ensuring compliance with agreed scopes of service.
You’ll coordinate design deliverables across disciplines, manage proposals within BIM and commercial constraints, and advise on buildability and technical feasibility. Your role will involve tracking progress, managing submissions to clients and statutory bodies, and identifying opportunities for value engineering and offsite/prefabrication.
You’ll also support sustainability initiatives, contribute to procurement planning, and help capture and share best practices across the business. Who we’re looking for We’re looking for someone with proven experience in a design or technical management role, who brings strong communication and stakeholder coordination skills.
You’ll have a deep understanding of design processes, construction methods, and commercial drivers, along with a passion for sustainability and innovation. Experience of high-rise PBSA (Purpose Built Student Accommodation) or BTR (Build to Rent) schemes is essential.
The ability to work collaboratively across teams and disci
Watkin JonesMacclesfield, 18 mi from Crewe
Are you an experienced design professional ready to take ownership of complex, high-profile projects? We’re looking for a Senior Design Manager who thrives in a fast-paced environment, balancing creativity, technical precision, and commercial...
COSTAIN GROUPManchester, 26 mi from Crewe
Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 – 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 – 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region covered by United...
STANTECWarrington, 21 mi from Crewe
social benefits.
• We champion sustainable development, delivering infrastructure projects that adapt to climate change.
Our Design Managers work across the project lifecycle in asset planning / strategy, concept design, outline design and detailed...