Senior Design Manager - Water & Wastewater Delivery

VolkerWessels UK Ltd; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Private medical care

Pension

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work scheme

Training and development opportunities

Flexible working opportunities

Employee Assistance programme

Mental health, physical health, and

Job summary

VolkerWessels UK Ltd, through its VolkerFitzpatrick division, is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead design across major water and wastewater infrastructure schemes in the East Anglia region. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage external consultants, and drive design delivery from concept to delivery.

The role requires extensive civil engineering experience, chartered status or working towards it, and strong stakeholder engagement, buildability, and programme management

Qualifications

• Extensive experience within civil engineering, infrastructure or water sector projects.
• Strong background in Design Management on major projects.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary design teams and external consultants.
• Excellent understanding of buildability, design coordination and project delivery.
• Strong programme management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proactive approach to problem‑solving and value engineering.
• Excellent communication and leadership capabilities.
• Degree‑level qualification in Civil Engineering.
• Chartered status (CEng, MICE or equivalent) or working towards professional accreditation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate all design activities across significant water and wastewater infrastructure schemes.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary design teams and external consultants to ensure timely delivery.

Skills

Civil engineering

Design management

Multidisciplinary teams

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Buildability & value engineering

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

Chartered status (CEng/MICE)

Job description

VolkerWessels UK Ltd, through its VolkerFitzpatrick division, is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead design across major water and wastewater infrastructure schemes in the East Anglia region. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage external consultants, and drive design delivery from concept to delivery.

The role requires extensive civil engineering experience, chartered status or working towards it, and strong stakeholder engagement, buildability, and programme management