Senior Design Manager, Water Infrastructure (Hybrid)

Access Talent Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical and wellbeing support

Company pension scheme

Life assurance and income protection

Flexible benefits package

Professional development and mentoring

Job summary

Access Talent Group is recruiting a Senior Design Manager to join its water team, delivering major Design & Build projects across the UK. The role blends design management, technical leadership, client engagement and team leadership to ensure robust, commercially controlled designs delivered to programme.

You will oversee multidisciplinary design teams across clean water, wastewater, hydraulics and pipelines, interfacing with clients, contractors and internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Degree in Civil Engineering, Water Engineering or equivalent.
• Chartered Engineer status.
• Strong experience managing multidisciplinary design teams.
• Broad technical knowledge across clean water, wastewater, hydraulics, pipelines and water reuse.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary design teams throughout the full project lifecycle from concept to construction.
• Coordinate design deliverables including reports, calculations, drawings, specifications and scopes of work.
• Drive design programmes, manage resources and monitor time, cost and quality against milestones.
• Provide technical leadership and challenge proposed solutions for buildable outcomes.
• Support D&B contract delivery and contribute to bids and proposals.
• Mentor engineers and design managers within the team.

Skills

Design management

Multidisciplinary leadership

Client engagement

Water infrastructure

Project delivery

Commercial awareness

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Budget & programmes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Chartered Engineer status

Tools

AutoCAD

CDE platforms

MS Office

Power BI

Project management software

Job description

Access Talent Group is recruiting a Senior Design Manager to join its water team, delivering major Design & Build projects across the UK. The role blends design management, technical leadership, client engagement and team leadership to ensure robust, commercially controlled designs delivered to programme.

You will oversee multidisciplinary design teams across clean water, wastewater, hydraulics and pipelines, interfacing with clients, contractors and internal stakeholders.