Assistant Design Manager

Wates are looking for a site based Assistant Design Manager to join our Wates Residential South Region, delivering high‑quality new homes for local communities.

If you're passionate about great design, enjoy working collaboratively, and have strong technical capability, this is an opportunity to challenge the norm, bring fresh ideas, and progress your career within a leading construction business. Join us and help create tomorrow, together.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop professionally as part of a talented, diverse and supportive team.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Project focused and based on site in Eastleigh, Hampshire, our Assistant Design Manager will be valuable part of our business, driving quality outcomes, enhancing buildability and fostering innovation. Assistant Design Managers work collaboratively with our project teams, in house experts and industry specialists to ensure that the design develops in accordance with the brief with a firm focus on added value, compliance, commercial viability, and best practice.

As an Assistant Design Manager you will:

• Work as part of a project team, taking direction from the design lead, and support other functions,
• Collaborate with all relevant internal and external stakeholders to produce and manage a realistic design programme and information requirements schedule that supports design, procurement, and construction activities.
• Support the delivery of Continuous Improvement initiatives and drive innovation and sustainability across projects.
• Ensure designs are robustly reviewed and verified to achieve compliance and mitigate Health & Safety, design, and buildability risks prior to construction.
• Identify and manage key risks and opportunities at each stage of the design and delivery process.
• Promote quality, coordination, and buildability from concept through to delivery.
• Management and Coordination of RFi's from the on site supply chain and specialist designers with the consultant and client team.
• Management of design workflows within the CDE platform
• Record Keeping from design meetings and workshops
• Gathering of product performance data and maintaining the Golden Thread.
• Assessment of contract issued information

Our commitments: 

Wates is proud to be an employer where anyone can thrive, and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.  We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement, as we value transferable skills and assess all applications fairly.

We don't discriminate based on a criminal record; all applications are reviewed on an individual basis against the requirements of the role. Some roles may require additional checks, due to the nature of the work.  As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer an interview to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role and opt in to the Disability Confident scheme.  Reasonable adjustments are available, please contact us at recruitment@wates.co.uk