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.