Solar Design Manager

PT Renewables; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development

Pension

Healthcare

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

PT Renewables is seeking a Design Manager in Leicester, hybrid role, permanent. You will lead the design function for commercial solar PV projects, setting technical standards from concept to delivery, ensuring designs are buildable, compliant, and integrated with project delivery. Hybrid schedule in Leicester with a competitive package.

You will coordinate design output, maintain standards, and work with operations to ensure smooth handovers and value engineering across a growing portfolio.

Qualifications

• Proven design leadership experience in construction or related sectors.
• Ability to coordinate design across multiple concurrent commercial projects.
• Strong understanding of relevant standards and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and coordinate design output across multiple solar projects.
• Produce and review detailed designs using Revit and IFC workflows.
• Ensure designs meet grid requirements and regulatory standards.
• Maintain design standards, diagrams, schedules and yield analyses.
• Collaborate with project delivery for smooth handover from design to construction.
• Support technical reviews and value engineering across the portfolio.

Skills

Design management

Multi-project coordination

Regulatory compliance

Technical leadership

Tools

Revit

IFC workflows

Job description

Design Manager | Permanent | Leicester - Hybrid | Up to £65,000

Ready to be the technical authority for Solar Design Projects?

We're working with a well-established renewable energy business with over 20 years' experience delivering commercial solar PV installations across the UK.

Their project pipeline keeps growing, and they now need a Design Manager to take ownership of design quality and coordination across their entire commercial solar portfolio.

The Role

You’ll lead the design function, coordinating solar PV design output from concept right through to delivery.

Working closely with operations and project delivery, you’ll set and maintain the technical standard for design across the business - ensuring what leaves the design team is rigorous, buildable and fully compliant.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Overseeing and coordinating design output across multiple concurrent commercial solar PV projects.
• Producing and reviewing detailed designs using Revit and IFC-based workflows.
• Ensuring all designs meet relevant standards, grid requirements and regulatory frameworks - with compliance built into the process, not bolted on at the end.
• Maintaining and developing design standards, processes and documentation - single-line diagrams, equipment schedules, string layouts, shading analysis and yield assessments.
• Working closely with project and delivery teams for a smooth handover from design to construction.
• Supporting technical queries, design reviews and value engineering across the portfolio.

About you

You're a technically accomplished solar PV designer with a background in construction and a track record of managing design across complex commercial projects.

• Proven design experience within the construction industry.
• Strong solar PV design experience, ideally at commercial and industrial scale.
• Genuine proficiency in Revit and IFC workflows
• The ability to manage design across multiple concurrent projects without losing technical rigour.
• Thorough working knowledge of relevant standards, and the confidence to apply and enforce them meaningfully.

Package

• Salary up to £65,000
• Hybrid working in Leicester
• Bonus opportunities
• Development, pension, healthcare and more