Engineering Manager

Overview

In this Engineering Manager role, you lead a regional civil engineering team to deliver high-quality design packages for residential schemes. You’ll ensure technical standards across projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with external consultants and authorities. The role shapes the technical delivery of multiple housing sites while supporting long-term progression in a values-led business. You’ll work across planning approvals, design coordination, and stakeholder liaison to enable successful housing developments.

Pay / Benefits

• Company car
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Staff discounts
• Home purchase scheme

Responsibilities

• Prepare viability and detailed engineering designs to resolve site constraints
• Deliver S38 and S104 designs to adoptable standards, supporting tendering
• Coordinate with environmental and geotechnical consultants on foundations and contamination solutions
• Advise on SuDS, value engineering, and housing layout optimisation
• Assist with site appraisals and early-stage technical input
• Liaise with approving bodies to agree roads and sewer designs
• Prepare and coordinate external levels and private drainage drawings
• Brief and manage foundation design consultants
• Assemble and deliver full civil engineering design packages
• Support the discharge of engineering and planning conditions
• Attend internal and external technical meetings
• Manage, mentor and lead a team of engineers

Key requirements

• Previous experience with a housebuilder or consultancy in a similar role
• HNC / HND qualified (or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of planning policy and approval processes
• Knowledge of local authority, highway and water authority standards
• Confident using AutoCAD and Microsoft Office
• Proven ability to lead, motivate and develop engineering teams
• Organised, proactive, and commercially aware
• Strong communication and time-management skills

• leadership
• communication
• time-management
• AutoCAD
• civil engineering design
• S38 and S104 design knowledge

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