Design Manager - Water Sector

£60,000 - £80,000 per annum | Permanent | Greater Manchester (Hybrid)

What We're Looking For

The ideal Design Manager - Water Sector will bring :

• Extensive experience working in engineering design within a regulated sector such as water, rail, oil and gas, nuclear, highways or bridges
• Graduate or HND qualification in engineering
• Strong background managing multidisciplinary design teams and projects
• Proven experience building teams and developing capability of junior staff
• Results-focused approach with strong technical knowledge
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Good level of IT proficiency
• Driving licence and access to vehicle
• Chartered Engineer status or working towards chartership (desirable)
• Experience in the regulated water industry (desirable)

About the Role

This Design Manager - Water Sector position offers the chance to manage designers and design delivery across multidisciplinary teams within the water industry, ensuring time and quality expectations are met. You'll work with a friendly and focused civil engineering design team with a growing work bank within both utilities and rail sectors.

As Design Manager - Water Sector, you'll lead the design process on water industry projects, manage and develop engineers, CAD technicians and graduates, and grow the design team whilst maintaining a positive ethos. This role offers hybrid working with flexibility to work from home 1-2 days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, direct and develop engineers, CAD technicians and graduates
• Grow the design team and maintain a positive ethos and attitude within the team
• Lead the design process on multidisciplinary water industry projects
• Challenge, improve and shape formal processes and procedures for the design team
• Identify and implement appropriate software packages, driving the use of BIM and 3D modelling where necessary
• Ensure the team produces design deliverables that satisfy safety and quality requirements and are fully integrated
• Ensure the team produces design deliverables within agreed timescales and hours
• Ensure the team uses appropriate standards, best practice and software tools
• Ensure project change for design packages is fully recorded
• Assist with estimating hours required for design packages

What's On Offer

Salary : £60,000 - £80,000 per annum (dependent on experience and working arrangements)

Contract : Permanent, full-time

Location : Greater Manchester with hybrid working (1-2 days per week from home). Occasional site visits with travel expenses paid

• Employee benefits scheme
• Workplace pension scheme
• Training and development opportunities
• Safe, just and fair workplace with wellbeing as a core value
• Focus on mental and physical wellbeing of the team
• Growing work bank within utilities and rail
• Friendly and focused civil engineering design team

About the Company

Join an engineering design consultancy that works closely with a wide range of clients across multiple disciplines within the UK rail and utilities industries. Wellbeing is a core value, with a commitment to providing a safe, just and fair workplace that puts the mental and physical wellbeing of the team first.

How to Apply

If you're an experienced Design Manager - Water Sector with the leadership skills, technical knowledge and team development experience we're looking for, we want to hear from you.

Please apply now or contact Ceto Talent for a confidential discussion about this opportunity.

Ceto Talent is committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of background