Deputy Design Manager - Healthcare

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

Please note we are not able to offer sponsorship for this role.  

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At Laing O'Rourke, we're delivering the future of healthcare construction and we're seeking professionals with hands-on building contractor experience to help make it happen. The Monklands Replacement Project is a nationally significant scheme that will set new benchmarks in sustainability, digital delivery, and collaborative construction.

We're looking for a Deputy Design Manager with a background in building construction contracting, ideally with experience in on-site coordination, technical delivery, and working closely with design consultants and subcontractors.

What You'll Do

In this role, you will support the delivery of a large-scale healthcare facility, working alongside seasoned construction and design professionals. You'll play a key part in coordinating technical solutions, managing design interfaces, and ensuring buildability on site.

Your focus will include:

• Working with consultants, subcontractors, and internal teams to develop fully coordinated, buildable design solutions.
• Reviewing and feeding back on design documentation from a construction practicality and sequencing point of view.
• Supporting consultant teams to align with project strategies, budgets, and Laing O'Rourke's integrated design and construction processes.
• Ensuring effective collaboration and issue resolution across design, construction, and supply chain interfaces (BIM/Digital Engineering tools included).
• Driving value through design optimisation, DfMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly), and integration of offsite solutions where appropriate.
• Supporting information control, design compliance, and change management processes throughout the design lifecycle.

What We're Looking For

• A background in building construction contracting (main contractor or specialist contractor).
• First degree or equivalent in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related discipline.
• Practical understanding of design coordination, buildability, sequencing, and temporary works considerations.
• Familiarity with digital construction tools and collaborative design processes is advantageous (BIM, CDEs, etc.).
• Experience working on complex, multi-disciplinary construction projects (healthcare or large public sector a bonus).

Technical Competencies:

• Buildability reviews & design coordination
• Understanding of temporary works, logistics, and sequencing
• Design compliance & change control
• DfMA knowledge or interest
• Consultant and subcontractor management
• Interdisciplinary interface resolution
• Familiarity with digital tools like BIM, Navisworks, or Revit

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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