Assistant Design Manager

Assistant Design Manager – Wakefield Looking for your next big step into construction design management? We’re working with a highly successful main contractor that’s expanding its design team and offering a fantastic opportunity for an Assistant Design Manager / Design Coordinator. With a strong pipeline of projects secured well into 2026, this is a chance to be part of a thriving business delivering varied schemes across education, healthcare, commercial, distribution and industrial sectors, typically valued up to £15m. This is the perfect role for someone with experience in design management, or for an Architect/Technologist who’s ready to move into the contracting world and apply their design skills in a fast-paced, practical environment. What you’ll be doing: * Coordinating design information across live projects to keep everything moving smoothly * Carrying out design-gap reviews, value engineering and design risk management * Collaborating with project teams, consultants, clients and subcontractors to create the best design solutions * Driving safe, efficient and profitable project delivery through clear sequencing of design * Managing consultant appointments and scopes of service * Leading and contributing to design meetings, ensuring timely, accurate information * Providing technical input for pre-qualification and client presentations What’s in it for you: * Salary up to £40,000 * Car allowance + full benefits package * Ongoing training and clear career progression with a highly successful main building contractor * The chance to work on diverse, high-profile projects in a supportive, ambitious team If you’re ambitious, detail-focused and ready to push your design management career forward, this is the role for you