Water Infrastructure Design Manager (Hybrid)

Advance TRS; St Asaph; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Benefits

Job summary

Advance TRS is seeking a Design Manager to lead a multi-disciplinary design team based in St. Asaph, North Wales, hybrid working 3 days in office.

The role supports AMP8 projects for Welsh Water, delivering high-quality design across the framework. You will establish design quality plans, provide technical leadership, and manage workloads and recruitment, ensuring projects meet standards, safety and programme requirements.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing multi-disciplinary design teams within the Water infrastructure or related sectors.
• Degree or equivalent qualification in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical or Design Engineering.
• Strong understanding of clean and wastewater systems and processes.
• Experience working with NEC contracts and within framework agreements.
• Excellent understanding of the design lifecycle, including optioneering, outline design, detailed design and design reviews.
• Knowledge of WIMES, DWI requirements, relevant design codes and legislation.
• Good understanding of CDM 2015 Regulations and safety-by-design principles.
• Strong organisational and workload planning skills, with experience leading and mentoring multi-disciplinary teams across varied projects.
• Ability to provide strong technical leadership, make sound technical judgements and provide effective design governance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with clients, consultants and project delivery teams.
• Commercially aware, with the ability to consider cost, risk and programme when developing design solutions.
• Proactive and accountable, with the ability to take ownership of design delivery from client brief through to construction support.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with a focus on collaboration, technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Passionate about quality, standardisation, innovation and developing high-performing design teams.
• Proficient in the use of design management software and systems.

Responsibilities

• Establishing and maintaining Framework Design Quality Plans and ensuring they are effectively rolled out across regional teams.
• Line managing the regional design team, providing both HR support and technical leadership.
• Acting as a key client point of contact for all design-related matters.
• Supporting regional design teams and acting as a point of escalation from project level through to framework level.
• Planning workloads and resources, allocating Design Leads and design teams across projects.
• Establishing effective working relationships with Design Consultants where required, including setting clear onboarding expectations and required levels of detail.
• Working closely with Framework Managers and providing design input at framework level.
• Supporting the Head of Design with the recruitment of design engineers across the framework.
• Working collaboratively with other Regional Design Managers and the Head of Design to ensure a consistent approach to QA compliance, process development and standardisation.
• Supporting the wider business with tenders and pre-qualification submissions.

Skills

Design leadership

Water infrastructure

NEC contracts

Framework agreements

Design lifecycle

CDM 2015

Stakeholder management

Cost management

Quality assurance

Design governance

Education

Civil/Mechanical/Electrical or Design Eng degree

Tools

Design management software

Job description

Advance TRS is seeking a Design Manager to lead a multi-disciplinary design team based in St. Asaph, North Wales, hybrid working 3 days in office.

The role supports AMP8 projects for Welsh Water, delivering high-quality design across the framework. You will establish design quality plans, provide technical leadership, and manage workloads and recruitment, ensuring projects meet standards, safety and programme requirements.