Infrastructure Design & Engineering Lead

Get Staffed Online Recruitment; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Car allowance (where applicable)

Private medical insurance

Company pension

Professional development and training

Flexible working arrangements

Birthday leave

Staff Wellbeing Day

Job summary

Get Staffed Online Recruitment is looking for an experienced Engineering and Design Manager to join a Health and Safety Consultancy delivering major infrastructure projects in the utilities sector from Leeds. You will lead multidisciplinary design teams and drive governance to ensure high-quality delivery across the project lifecycle.

The role focuses on resource planning, risk management and continuous improvement, working with clients, regulators and internal teams to shape design standards

Qualifications

• Experience leading multidisciplinary design teams within major infrastructure or water sector programmes.
• Experience in wastewater, storm overflow, environmental or wider water-sector programmes.
• Strong design management, governance, assurance and risk management capability.
• Experience managing resources, workloads and delivery across multiple projects, programmes or design partners.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills across clients, consultants, contractors and operational teams.
• Experience driving standardisation, quality improvement and continuous improvement within a design environment.
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or equivalent professional qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multidisciplinary engineering and design teams across multiple projects and programmes.
• Represent the design function within project and operational meetings, providing updates on performance, risks and key challenges.
• Facilitate knowledge-sharing initiatives and promote best practice across design teams.
• Develop and maintain design management processes, standards, templates and documentation.
• Oversee design governance, assurance activities and quality audits to ensure compliance with project requirements.
• Support the development of standardised products, processes and technical solutions to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Manage design resources and capacity planning, identifying constraints and supporting resource allocation across projects.
• Maintain and manage design risk registers, ensuring risks are identified, monitored and mitigated.
• Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned, process reviews and quality enhancements.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams, clients, regulators and external stakeholders to support project delivery.
• Provide leadership and oversight to specialist technical functions as required.
• Support the development of technical strategies and design management plans to ensure a consistent approach across all projects.
• Identify opportunities for innovation, collaboration and improved project outcomes.

Job description

Get Staffed Online Recruitment is looking for an experienced Engineering and Design Manager to join a Health and Safety Consultancy delivering major infrastructure projects in the utilities sector from Leeds. You will lead multidisciplinary design teams and drive governance to ensure high-quality delivery across the project lifecycle.

The role focuses on resource planning, risk management and continuous improvement, working with clients, regulators and internal teams to shape design standards