Senior Design Manager - Water Sector

AECOM; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Senior Design Manager to oversee the delivery of water and wastewater treatment projects. This role requires strong leadership skills, design management expertise, and a solid understanding of environmental compliance and engineering principles. You will manage multidisciplinary teams, ensuring projects are delivered on budget and to high quality standards while fostering relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Benefits

Flexible Work Options

Comprehensive Benefits

Well-being Programs

Qualifications

• 5-10 years experience in water/wastewater treatment facility design.
• Chartered status preferred.
• Understanding of environmental regulations.

Responsibilities

• Leading teams for wastewater infrastructure projects.
• Overseeing design process ensuring compliance.
• Building relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Skills

Communication

Project Management

Hydraulic Engineering

Environmental Regulations

Education

Degree in civil, mechanical, electrical or environmental engineering

Tools

MS Project

Excel

InDesign

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Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

We are looking to hire a Senior Design Manager to support the delivery of a new 7-year framework where the AECOM multidisciplinary team will plan, design, and deliver water and/or wastewater treatment projects for a major utilities client in Southern England. Key responsibilities of the role include, managing multi-disciplinary design activities to deliver proposals on time and on budget, ensuring compliance with regulations and client requirements.

Core Responsibilities:

Design Leadership:

• Leading and managing teams of engineers and designers in the development of wastewater infrastructure projects, including treatment plants, pumping stations, and sewer networks.

Design Management:

• Overseeing all aspects of the design process, from concept to completion, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.

Client and Stakeholder Management:

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with the client, contractor, and other stakeholders, and effectively communicating project progress and technical challenges.

Resource Management:

• Ensuring that the design team have the necessary resources including the technical expertise in wastewater treatment processes, hydraulic modeling, and related engineering disciplines.

Compliance and Safety:

• Ensuring that designs are developed to comply with relevant health, safety, environmental, and quality regulations/requirements, including but not limited to CDM (Construction Design & Management) regulations.

Innovation and Improvement:

• Driving the adoption of innovative technologies and best practices in wastewater design and continuously improving design processes.

Financial Management:

• Managing project budgets, tracking costs, and ensuring value for money in design solutions.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here's what we're looking for:

• Typically a degree in civil, mechanical, electrical, or environmental engineering, with chartered status preferred.
• Experience: 5 - 10 years experience in water and/or wastewater treatment facility design and design/project management
• Understanding of the design process of water and/or wastewater treatment facilities.
• Knowledge of hydraulic engineering and modelling
• Strong understanding of environmental regulations and compliance requirement
• Excellent communication skills with clients, engineers, contractors, and regulatory agencies
• Project and design programming skills.
• Experience in development and implementation of design management tools and procedures.
• Commercial awareness of projects.
• Construction knowledge/experience.
• Proficiency in MS Project/Excel/InDesign.
• Travel between office and site locations is required, particularly Croydon, London and Brighton areas

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [e-mail] . At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Additional Information

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.