Design Lead

M Group Energy; Byfleet; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the telecom sector as a Design Manager, where you'll oversee design functions for key accounts, ensuring quality and cost efficiency. This role offers opportunities for professional growth in a supportive environment with a focus on teamwork and customer service.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Access to retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave

Referral rewards

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage workload and conflicting priorities under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for design function for a key account, assessing and defining design delivery.
• Manage design suppliers, ensuring quality and cost improvements.
• Lead and develop design resources, running staff appraisals.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Adaptability

Job description

About The Role
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career; with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Telecom, we’re enabling and enhancing telecom networks, playing a lead role in the delivery of our tech enabled future.
We deliver full network cycle services for fixed, private and mobile operators.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

Responsible for the design function for a key account, you'll be assessing, scoping, and defining design delivery across the programme. You'll develop and embed ways of working in the design team; leading continuous improvements in time, cost and quality within the programme team. Ensuring that best practice is adopted across all elements of the design function. You'll manage design suppliers, driving improvements in quality and cost. You will be accountable for all health, safety, environmental and quality factors of design deliverables. You will be responsible for line management of design staff within the programme team; leading and developing design resources, running staff appraisals, and managing talent development. Additionally, you'll manage all cost and revenue aspects of the design function for this key account, maintain the customer relationship for design deliverables, deliver client updates, manage client feedback, and maintain positive client relationships.

What you’ll bring

• You're a team player with the ability to communicate with professional courtesy, energy and enthusiasm at all levels.
• You share information openly and seek to support across the business in your area of expertise.
• You are committed to providing outstanding internal and external customer service.
• You are a problem solver, capable of thinking through solutions.
• You are energetic, self-motivated, hands-on, and require minimal supervision.
• You are flexible and adaptable in a fast-moving technical environment, ready to accept new ideas and challenges.
• You have proven ability to manage your workload and conflicting priorities under pressure.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits to support your life in and out of work, including:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service available 24/7
• Employee assistance programme
• Access to retail discounts via My Rewards portal
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance, and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers:

• Company car and fuel card with EV and hybrid options
• My Car Choice salary sacrifice scheme
• Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
• Health Care Cash Plan for medical expenses
• Private healthcare and cash plan
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Referral rewards for introducing new employees

About us

We aim to be an employer of choice, attracting diverse talent who make a difference. We support and recruit army veterans and foster an inclusive environment through our ENABLE networks. Our values—responsibility, openness, teamwork, and ambition—shape our culture and way of working. We offer industry-recognized programmes, training, and development opportunities for all career stages. Join us during an exciting time at M Group.