Assistant Design Manager

Assistant Design Manager

📍 Location: Glasgow City Centre (initially), transitioning to Airdrie – On-site
🏗️ Project: Monklands Replacement Project

Start your next chapter helping to deliver Scotland's first Net Zero hospital.

At Laing O'Rourke, we're building the future of healthcare and we're looking for the next generation of design and construction professionals to help make it happen. The Monklands Replacement Project is a nationally significant scheme that will serve communities for decades and set new benchmarks in sustainability and digital delivery.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone early in their career, whether you're from an architectural or construction management background to step into a high-impact role with support, mentorship, and real responsibility.

What You'll Do

As an Assistant Design Manager, you'll work alongside experienced professionals to support the design development and coordination of a large-scale healthcare facility. You'll gain hands-on experience in:

• Supporting our consultant teams to maximise their effectiveness and value optimisation in the provision of effective integrated design solutions that meet our clients our business needs (strategies and budgets).
• Maximising the effectiveness of consultant relationships.
• Reviewing design delivery to enhance quality of solutions and efficiency of design, procurement, manufacturing, assembly, commissioning and handover of total engineering excellent solutions for our clients.
• Supporting our consultants in adopting LOR's design processes, deliver with rigour and quality project management processes and to ensure effective collaboration throughout the supply chain (using appropriate tools for this including, but not limited to, BIM/Digital Engineering).
• Capturing business knowledge and capability enabling continuous improvement, innovation and improved capability towards an Engineering Enterprise.

Technical Capabilities:

• Design optimisation
• Design for Manufacture and Assembly
• Managing consultancies
• Information and Change Control
• Design compliance
• Monitoring progress
• Design Coordination and Interfaces

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• First degree in Architecture or other appropriate construction related qualification.
• Approx 5 years' experience. Different procurement routes, different sector experience.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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