Engineering Design Manager – Construction

Overview

As an Engineering Design Manager you will guide multi-disciplinary design efforts on critical infrastructure projects, ensuring buildability and compliance. You’ll partner with clients and project teams to deliver fit-for-purpose design solutions, from concept to delivery, focusing on innovative and efficient outcomes. You work across sectors like transport, defence, real estate, and highways, shaping design delivery and performance. This is an opportunity to influence high-stakes projects within a collaborative, supportive Real Estate team.

Pay / Benefits

• great place to work
• flexible working environment
• focus on work-life balance
• equal opportunity employer

Responsibilities

• Manage contracts with external design consultants and ensure duties are fulfilled under the contract
• Lead multi-disciplinary design teams across consultants and partner companies
• Evaluate designs and propose optimal solutions
• Collaborate with technical, operational, maintenance, and strategic stakeholders and design coordinators
• Liaise with Clients, Engineering Managers, Project Managers, Contractors and Consultants on project issues like scope changes and risks

Key requirements

• Minimum 5 years of design and management experience
• Experience across full project lifecycle design, ideally across multiple sectors and procurement routes
• Strong understanding of integrated design delivery and consultant performance management
• Knowledge of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and common data environments
• Degree/HNC in Civil, Mechanical or Electrical engineering (or equivalent)
• Proficiency with CAD (AutoCAD or Revit)
• Excellent communication with clients and staff
• Self-driven, results-oriented
• People management, time management, and project design management

• excellent communication
• collaboration
• self-driven
• BIM knowledge
• Building Information Modelling (BIM) and CDE
• CAD (AutoCAD, Revit)

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