Assistant Design Manager

The Vacancy

🌟 Assistant Design Manager – Greater London (Based in our London Office)

We’re excited to offer an opportunity for a proactive and detail-oriented Assistant Design Manager to join our WPS Planned Maintenance team. Based at our London office, you’ll play a key role in supporting the WPS business across a range of contracts, with a specific focus on Higher Risk Buildings (HRBs) and Net Zero Carbon (NZC) schemes.

🛠 What You’ll Be Doing:

You’ll work alongside our experienced Design Managers and Senior Design Managers to:

• Support the production and management of design programmes and information schedules.
• Guide project teams on design-related matters and resolve queries with the design team.
• Coordinate feedback and ensure clarity and completeness in proposal documents.
• Review design deliverables to ensure they’re cost-effective, coordinated, and buildable.
• Champion quality, buildability, and innovation across our HRB and NZC projects.

💡 What You’ll Bring:

We’re looking for someone with:

• A solid understanding of building methods, procurement, and risk management.
• A basic knowledge of contracts, planning techniques, and lifecycle costing.
• A collaborative mindset and a passion for sustainable, high-quality design.

🚀 Why Join Us?

This is your chance to grow your career in a supportive, forward-thinking environment. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement—while working on meaningful projects that contribute to safer and greener communities.

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Interested?
Once you apply, a member of the Recruitment Team will be in touch to guide you through the next steps.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.