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Senior Design Manager

Jacobs 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Senior

Lead multidisciplinary detailed design teams for major UK water and wastewater infrastructure programs to ensure buildable and effective solutions. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while fostering trusted client relationships and mentoring staff.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multidisciplinary detailed design teams for major UK water and wastewater infrastructure programs to ensure buildable and effective solutions. Manage design scope, technical interfaces, and assurance while fostering trusted client relationships and mentoring staff.

Requirements

  • Requires technical leadership experience in large-scale infrastructure and expertise in multidisciplinary engineering integration. Candidates must have knowledge of NEC3/4 contracts, CDM regulations, and the ability to communicate complex technical issues to diverse stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • Flexible Work Arrangements
  • Pension Contributions up to 10%
  • Medical Cover
  • Digital GP Service
  • Fertility Healthcare
  • Family Planning Services
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Parental Programs
  • Life Assurance
  • Wellbeing Apps
  • Professional Membership Fees
  • Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
  • Charity Matched-funding
  • Paid Volunteering Time

Key Skills

Technical Leadership Multidisciplinary Engineering Construction Integration NEC3/4 Contracts CDM Regulations Project Management Client Relationship Management Mentoring Design Scope Management Technical Interfaces Management Assurance Management Communication

About Jacobs

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow – delivering outcomes and solutions for the world's most complex challenges. With a team of approximately 45,000, we provide end-to-end services in advanced manufacturing, cities & places, energy, environmental, life sciences, transportation and water. From advisory and consulting, feasibility, planning, design, program and lifecycle management, we're creating a more connected and sustainable world.

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