Engineering Design Manager – Construction

Overview

In this role you guide design across multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects, ensuring buildability, compliance and innovation. You’ll partner with clients and project teams to steer design from concept to delivery, balancing technical excellence with risk management. This is an opportunity to lead design inputs on prestigious projects across transport, defence, and real estate, shaping outcomes that support safer, smarter infrastructure. You’ll work in a collaborative, client‑facing environment that values high standards and effective stakeholder engagement.

Pay / Benefits

• healthier, flexible working environment
• equal opportunity employer
• focus on work-life balance
• opportunity to work on flagship projects
• collaborative culture
• supportive team environment

Responsibilities

• Manage contract with external design consultants alongside Project Manager
• Lead multi-disciplinary design teams to deliver solutions to required design levels
• Evaluate designs and propose improvements
• Collaborate with technical, operational, maintenance and strategic stakeholders
• Liaise with Clients, Engineering Managers, Project Managers, Contractors and Consultants on issues, scope changes and risks

Key requirements

• Minimum 5 years of design and management experience
• Experience across full project lifecycle and multiple sectors
• Strong understanding of integrated design delivery and consultant performance
• Knowledge of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and common data environments
• Degree/HNC in Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering
• Excellent communication skills and client/staff liaison ability
• Self-driven and results-oriented with good time and people management

• strong communication
• team leadership
• stakeholder management
• BIM
• CAD (AutoCAD or Revit)
• design delivery

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