Job Description
Design Manager
Lead the delivery of complex engineering design programmes that will help shape the future of the UK's energy infrastructure.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Design Manager to take ownership of critical design activities on a major energy project. Working within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in delivering complex engineering solutions, influencing project outcomes, and driving excellence across design, planning and stakeholder engagement.
If you're looking for a role that combines technical leadership, strategic influence and hands-on delivery within a growing sector, this opportunity offers both challenge and long-term career development.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications & Requirements
What's in it for you?The energy sector offers exceptional long-term career prospects, driven by major investment in clean energy, infrastructure and energy security. This is your opportunity to contribute to nationally significant projects while developing expertise in one of the UK's most resilient and expanding industries.
Company OverviewOur Client is a globally recognised engineering and technical services organisation delivering complex projects across the energy, environmental, nuclear and infrastructure sectors. Known for technical excellence and innovation, they support major programmes that improve safety, sustainability and operational performance. Their collaborative culture provides employees with the opportunity to work on high-profile projects, develop specialist expertise and build rewarding long-term careers while contributing to the UK's energy transition.
If you're ready to take the lead on nationally significant engineering projects and advance your career within the energy sector, apply today.
Lead the delivery of complex engineering design programmes that will help shape the future of the UK's energy infrastructure.
This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Design Manager to take ownership of critical design activities on a major energy project. Working within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in delivering complex engineering solutions, influencing project outcomes, and driving excellence across design, planning and stakeholder engagement.
If you're looking for a role that combines technical leadership, strategic influence and hands-on delivery within a growing sector, this opportunity offers both challenge and long-term career development.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of design work packages to agreed quality, cost and programme targets.
- Drive the successful implementation of project and operational objectives.
- Produce, review and issue engineering deliverables within scope.
- Manage design schedules and identify programme risks and mitigation measures.
- Identify opportunities to enhance replication and design delivery processes.
- Provide technical leadership on structural steelwork and engineering design matters.
- Build effective relationships across multidisciplinary project teams.
- Highlight commercial, strategic and operational risks and opportunities.
- Present complex technical information to stakeholders and project partners.
- Support competency, training and professional development activities.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Degree in Civil, Structural or Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Proven experience in a Design Manager role within a complex engineering environment.
- Strong structural steelwork design experience to relevant national standards.
- Knowledge of Eurocodes and modern engineering design practices.
- Demonstrable success delivering engineering projects to programme objectives.
- Ability to make sound, independent engineering decisions.
- Experience managing multiple stakeholders across large-scale projects.
- Strong planning, scheduling and risk management capabilities.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Working knowledge of CDM 2015 requirements.
What's in it for you?The energy sector offers exceptional long-term career prospects, driven by major investment in clean energy, infrastructure and energy security. This is your opportunity to contribute to nationally significant projects while developing expertise in one of the UK's most resilient and expanding industries.
- Competitive salary and excellent benefits package.
- Strong career progression opportunities.
- Long-term project security within a growing sector.
- Exposure to major UK infrastructure programmes.
- Opportunities to work with industry-leading engineering professionals.
- Ongoing training and professional development.
- Challenging and rewarding technical projects.
- Collaborative and supportive working environment.
- Opportunity to make a tangible impact on the UK's energy future.
- Access to innovative technologies and engineering practices.
Company OverviewOur Client is a globally recognised engineering and technical services organisation delivering complex projects across the energy, environmental, nuclear and infrastructure sectors. Known for technical excellence and innovation, they support major programmes that improve safety, sustainability and operational performance. Their collaborative culture provides employees with the opportunity to work on high-profile projects, develop specialist expertise and build rewarding long-term careers while contributing to the UK's energy transition.
If you're ready to take the lead on nationally significant engineering projects and advance your career within the energy sector, apply today.