Job description
Ready to kickstart your career? Gain hands on experience on the Wates Design Management Trainee Programme.
As a Design Management Trainee, you’ll gain hands-on experience collaborating with a wide range of professionals, including architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, and sub-contractors. You’ll be involved in reviewing and analysing information to streamline projects, ensuring cost-effectiveness and best practices throughout. This programme will give you exposure to the full project life cycle, helping you understand how everything fits together.
Using the knowledge and skills you’ve learnt on the programme, you’ll:
- Manage the design processes to reduce risk and maximise project outcomes.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, designers, subcontractors, and suppliers.
- Ensure compliance with contracts related to project progress, design responsibilities and sub-contractor obligations.
- Provide design updates and reports to managers while supporting the preparation of consultant performance reports.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams to review design data, check for technical completeness and identify potential risks or issues.
- Gather vital information and engage with networks to build your expertise in design management.
What’s in it for you?
Our Trainee Programme offers placement opportunities across various departments, technical and behavioural development, including support through relevant qualifications and a host of additional benefits. We provide the foundation skills, knowledge and experience you’ll need to build a long-term, successful career.
In addition, we offer:
- Mentoring, support, and training by industry experts
- Structured learning plan (a combination of technical and behavioural development)
- Competitive salary
- Private medical insurance
- Car allowance / company car scheme
- Health & wellness programme
- 26 days holiday + bank holidays
What we are looking for
- Passionate about a career in the built environment.
- Excited to learn and develop new skills.
- Have a curious nature.
- Reliable and professional.
- A problem solver with the ability to think logically.
- Possess good time management skills.
- Prioritise your work to meet agreed deadlines.
- To join our Trainee Programme via the Graduate route, you will have a motivation to learn and develop within the industry and you’ll have obtained or be working towards a 2:2 degree in any subject area. Roles in Leeds and East London (Havering) require Cognate Degree.
In some instances, you will be required to have a full UK driving license Guildford, Leeds, Birmingham, Central London and Warrington.
All roles will be based in a specific location, but our projects are geographically widespread. Where the role requires extensive/consistent travel, the company will fully fund the expense.
For our role in Leeds, you will be required to travel to and from projects across Yorkshire and the North East. For Central London and Warrington, you will be based from a specific office location for the majority of the week but will be required to travel to and between multiple project locations nationally as and when required.
Accepted degree subjects
Any
Additional job details
- Location
- Birmingham
- Finsbury Park
- Guildford
- Havering
- Leeds
- Warrington
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Contract, dates and working times
Full-time
How to apply
Applications for this role close at midday on closing date.
This date may be brought forward or extended in line with the number of applications we receive. We’re only able to accept the first application we receive. Any additional applications will be automatically withdrawn.
Click Apply to start your application now. This job will be available on Prospects until 2 December 2024
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Closing date: 2 December 2024