Design Manager

MURPHY GROUP; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure company in the UK seeks a Design Manager to join their growing team. This role involves producing design briefs, managing design change, and ensuring compliance with procedures for large-scale water infrastructure projects. The ideal candidate will have significant design management experience, strong management skills, and a relevant engineering qualification. Benefits include a competitive salary, discretionary bonus, and extensive professional development opportunities.

Benefits

27 days holiday plus bank holidays

Discretionary annual bonus

Above market rate pension scheme

Health screening and enhanced sick pay

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Investment in professional development

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a design management role within the construction sector.
• Confident in managing staff, clients, design budgets and programmes.
• Willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Produce design briefs for permanent works.
• Lead technical reviews of submissions from design partners.
• Manage day to day interface between design and construction teams.

Skills

Design management

Management skills

Flexibility

Education

HND or Engineering Degree

Membership in a recognized engineering institution

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Design Manager

Job Location: Golborne (WA3 2JD)

Country/Region: United Kingdom

Murphy is recruiting for a Design Manager to join our growing Infrastructure team, delivering a major water infrastructure project in partnership with United Utilities, as part of the AMP8 programme.

Murphy is a long‑standing delivery partner to leading water clients across the UK and Ireland, including Thames Water, Severn Trent, Northern Ireland Water, Yorkshire Water, SES Water, Bristol Water, South East Water, and Uisce Éireann, where we operate over 25 facilities under full DBOM contracts.

A day in the life of a Murphy Design Manager

• Produce design briefs for permanent works
• Ensure consultants are appointed appropriately
• Lead technical reviews of submissions from our design partners
• Ensure conformance to the Murphy Design Management procedure
• Lead design matters on small/medium/large/mega sized project/s as directed
• Allocate design tasks to individuals/companies as required and maintain associated RACI
• Manage day to day interface between design and construction teams and maintain its adequate records
• Review design progress according to programme and contractual requirements
• Lead constructability reviews
• Involvement in work winning to ensure consultants are engaged appropriately and adequate allowances are included in the bid
• Assist Senior Design Managers, consultants and multi‑discipline engineering teams to deliver the design solutions to schedule and budget to a high standard of professional competence
• Management of design change to support best outcome for the project
• Support with management of risk and opportunity in design

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Significant experience in a design management role within the construction sector.
• Management skills – confident in managing staff, clients, design budgets and programmes
• Flexibility and willingness to travel
• HND or Engineering Degree qualified
• Member of a recognised engineering institution. Incorporated Engineer or Chartered and or working towards membership

What’s in it for you?

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

About Murphy

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £5.8bn and £23m Invested in environmentally friendly plant in 2024 there really is #MoretoMurphy

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call James Hing on 07353 134946 to discuss in more detail.

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