Senior Design Manager - Electrical bias - Life Sciences & Healthcare

Laing O'Rourke; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Laing O'Rourke seeks a Senior Design Manager with a focus on electrical design for their Life Sciences and Healthcare portfolio. This role entails overseeing design processes, ensuring technical excellence, and collaborating with various teams to promote innovation in design management. Ideal candidates will have a degree in Electrical Engineering and significant experience in healthcare or life sciences.

Qualifications

• Experience in Healthcare or Life Sciences sectors.
• Approximately 10 years managing design in construction or building services projects.
• Sector specialization and likely international experience.

Responsibilities

• Leading pre-construction briefing and design processes.
• Managing design procedures and linking teams.
• Overseeing production and distribution of design information.

Skills

Design Management

Collaboration

Technical Excellence

Innovation in Design

Education

Degree in Electrical Engineering

Equivalent construction-related qualification

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Senior Design Manager - Electrical bias - Life Sciences & Healthcare, Manchester

Client: Laing O'Rourke

Location: Manchester, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: f7e42923818d

Job Views: 12

Posted: 22.06.2025

Expiry Date: 06.08.2025

Job Description:

Are you passionate about exemplary Design Management?

Do you have end-to-end contractor-side Design Management experience?

Are you considering what's next for your career?

Then we would love to hear from you!

The Opportunity:

Laing O'Rourke has an opportunity for an Electrically biased Senior Design Manager to join the team supporting our Life Sciences and Healthcare portfolio across the country. The role can be based from any of our Laing O'Rourke offices including Dartford, Sale, Leeds, Newcastle, St Neots, Glasgow, and the factory in Worksop.

A Laing O'Rourke Senior Design Manager leads the delivery of effective design across multiple projects or a large-scale project. They oversee the pre-construction phase design processes, liaising with clients, design teams, in-house bid teams, and operations teams. On live projects, they implement processes that enable design challenges and risk reduction within a collaborative team framework.

The Senior Design Manager is a senior member of the Design Job Family and Technical Function, ensuring technical excellence, assurance, and performance across all projects, from pre-project engagement to detailed delivery. All designers are part of our Engineering Enterprise, aiming to maximize design potential and increase project certainty.

Where will you be based?

Laing O'Rourke operates a flexible working policy. Staff are generally based at their regular place of work, whether on a project site or in offices of clients, delivery partners, or suppliers. Some remote working is possible by agreement, depending on project requirements.

What will the role look like?

• Leading pre-construction briefing and design processes.
• Managing design procedures, linking commercial and construction teams with designers throughout the project.
• Facilitating collaborative design challenge and interrogation processes.
• Overseeing production, control, and distribution of design information at various project stages.
• Reporting on design progress regularly.
• Reviewing design information for buildability, safety, maintainability, completeness, compliance, and technical suitability.
• Promoting innovation in design management, methodologies, processes, and practices.
• Supporting the promotion of the company's vision and values in all design activities.

Technical Capabilities:

• Creating and owning the design brief.
• Design for Manufacture and Assembly.
• Information and Change Control.
• Design compliance.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• Experience in Healthcare or Life Sciences sectors.
• First degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent construction-related qualification with design experience.
• Approximately 10 years of experience, sector specialization, and broad experience managing design in construction or building services projects, likely with international experience.