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Design Manager (Civils)

M Group Water 🇬🇧 Birstall, Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom

Onsite Full-time Senior

You will provide design leadership across various infrastructure projects, coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality designs. Additionally, you will manage design programs, technical risks, and ensure compliance with client requirements and regulations.

Responsibilities

  • Provide design leadership across small to large infrastructure projects
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary in-house and external design teams
  • Ensure all outputs meet client requirements, technical standards, and UK legislative obligations
  • Establish robust design processes, procedures, and governance
  • Manage design programmes, technical risk, change control, resourcing, and forecasting
  • Act as the primary technical interface with clients and stakeholders
  • Mentor and support junior engineers

Requirements

  • A degree in an engineering or scientific discipline
  • Significant experience in design and management within the water or related infrastructure sector
  • Proven track record of project leadership and successful delivery of complex, multidisciplinary projects
  • In-depth knowledge of UK H&S and design regulations, particularly CDM 2015
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and project coordination skills
  • Commercially astute with experience in managing project finances, risks, and change control
  • Full UK Driving License

Benefits

  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Online GP service
  • Employee assistance programme
  • My Rewards portal
  • Life assurance
  • Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
  • Reward and recognition scheme
  • Company car and fuel card
  • Health Care Cash Plan
  • Private Healthcare
  • Discretionary bonus scheme

Key Skills

Design leadership Project management Civil engineering MEICA engineering Process engineering Geotechnical engineering CDM 2015 regulations UK H&S regulations Technical risk management Change control Resourcing Forecasting Communication Leadership Project coordination Commercial management Client management Stakeholder management

About M Group Water

We understand that water is essential for life. At M Group Water, we specialise in balancing water demand and effective wastewater management, ensuring service excellence while meeting business and environmental goals. Our mission is to safeguard water supplies, enhance environmental performance, and manage resources for future generations. We focus on extending asset life and ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We are experts in: – Water and wastewater capital project delivery – Demand management and network infrastructure – MEICAT and capital maintenance – Developer services

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