Engineering & Design Manager - Infrastructure (Hybrid Leeds)

Elvis Eckardt Recruitment; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car Allowance

Pension

Hybrid working

Job summary

Elvis Eckardt Recruitment is seeking an experienced Engineering & Design Manager to oversee multidisciplinary teams within a major UK water and environmental infrastructure programme.

The role focuses on delivering sustainable wastewater infrastructure, coordinating design activities, and ensuring robust technical delivery across multiple projects and partners from Leeds, with hybrid working 2–3 days in the Swillington office.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing multidisciplinary engineering or design teams within complex infrastructure programmes.
• Strong background in engineering design management, technical governance, design assurance and risk management.
• Experience coordinating multiple projects, engineering disciplines and external design partners.
• Ability to oversee technical delivery, resource allocation, programme priorities and engineering performance.
• Excellent understanding of engineering design processes, quality standards and technical documentation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with consultants, contractors and senior project leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering and design activities across a major infrastructure programme.
• Oversee the performance, delivery and technical assurance of engineering design teams and external design partners.
• Develop, implement and maintain an overall Design Management Plan and associated technical delivery strategies.
• Coordinate design resource planning, capacity management and workload allocation across multiple projects.
• Manage specialist technical functions, including engineering modelling, geotechnical engineering and associated disciplines.
• Establish and maintain consistent engineering standards, design processes, documentation and technical governance.
• Lead design coordination meetings and facilitate knowledge sharing between engineering teams and delivery partners.
• Oversee design risk registers, technical issue resolution and design change management processes.
• Ensure engineering deliverables satisfy applicable quality, environmental and regulatory requirements.
• Support design standardisation, innovation and continuous improvement to improve delivery efficiency.
• Coordinate engineering activities with construction, operations, planning and environmental stakeholders.
• Support planning requirements, site investigations and technical assessments throughout project development.
• Provide progress reporting, resource forecasts and technical updates to senior management.
• Identify opportunities for sustainable, efficient and environmentally responsible engineering solutions.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Design management

Stakeholder management

Resource planning

Quality assurance

Tools

Hydraulic modelling

Geotechnical engineering

Job description

Elvis Eckardt Recruitment is seeking an experienced Engineering & Design Manager to oversee multidisciplinary teams within a major UK water and environmental infrastructure programme.

The role focuses on delivering sustainable wastewater infrastructure, coordinating design activities, and ensuring robust technical delivery across multiple projects and partners from Leeds, with hybrid working 2–3 days in the Swillington office.