Design Manager - Electrical bias - Substations

ENGINEERINGUK; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading engineering firm as a Senior Electrical Design Manager in Birmingham. You'll lead design for major infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance and promoting innovation. This role offers a chance to shape the future of power distribution in the UK.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Pension – basic and enhanced schemes

Health and Wellbeing

Virtual GP

Health Assessment (Age 50+)

Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)

Employee Assistance Programme

5 days leave extra can be purchased

Employee Discounts

Car or transport allowance

Qualifications

• Around 10 years' experience managing design on major infrastructure projects.
• Broad sector experience and a collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate briefing and design activities during pre-construction.
• Oversee the design process ensuring buildability, safety, and compliance.
• Manage consultants and promote innovation in design.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Innovation

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

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Design Manager - Electrical bias - Substations

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Power Up the Future of Infrastructure - Join Us as a Senior Electrical Design Manager

Are you a Design Management professional with a passion for leading major infrastructure projects? Are you ready to shape the next generation of power distribution across the UK?

At Laing O'Rourke, we're delivering the National Grid's Great Grid Upgrade Programme, and we're looking for a Senior Design Manager (Electrical bias) to join our Birmingham-based team before moving to the project site in East Anglia. This is your opportunity to play a central role in one of the UK's most critical energy infrastructure initiatives.
Why this role?
As a Senior Design Manager, you'll lead the delivery of efficient, technically assured designs across multiple projects-or one large, complex scheme. You'll take the reins during pre-construction and guide multidisciplinary teams through design interrogation, innovation, and risk reduction, all within a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

You'll be part of our Design Job Family and Engineering Enterprise-a team dedicated to delivering excellence, certainty, and performance through design. From digital tools to DfMA, we drive change in how modern infrastructure is conceived and built.
What you'll do:

• Lead and coordinate briefing and design activities during pre-construction
  
• Oversee the design process through all stages, ensuring buildability, safety, and compliance
  
• Manage consultants and ensure efficient information and change control
  
• Promote innovation in design, construction methods, and digital adoption
  

What we're looking for:

• A degree in Electrical Engineering (or similar technical background)
  
• Around 10 years' experience managing design on major infrastructure or building services projects
  
• Broad sector experience and a collaborative mindset
  
• International experience and DfMA exposure would be a plus
  

If your background is different but you bring transferable skills and a passion for learning, we still want to hear from you.
About Laing O'Rourke:
We are a global engineering and construction leader, shaping iconic projects in the UK, Australia, and the Middle East. With over 150 years of heritage and a bold vision for the future, we combine technical excellence with innovative thinking to deliver certainty for clients.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a long-term health condition or disability and meet the essential criteria, you'll be offered an interview. Need adjustments? Let us know-we're here to support you at every step.

Ready to lead the charge on the UK's energy transition? Apply now.

Learn more about the Great Grid Partnership: Laing O'Rourke appointed as construction partner for National Grid

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Company

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 an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Our Origin Story:

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourkebelieves that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Current subcommitteesinclude Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad,LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertakendisability awareness trainingand are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommitteeis an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders– We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of theBusiness Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering withEven Breakto have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability:

In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards andBenefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade

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