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Senior Design Manager

Murphy 🇬🇧 Sandford-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Onsite Full-time Senior

The Senior Design Manager will lead the design process for water infrastructure projects, ensuring technical quality, programme adherence, and effective resource allocation. They will manage design consultants, coordinate with site delivery teams, and ensure compliance with client requirements and design assurance frameworks.

Responsibilities

  • The Senior Design Manager will lead the design process for water infrastructure projects, ensuring technical quality, programme adherence, and effective resource allocation. They will manage design consultants, coordinate with site delivery teams, and ensure compliance with client requirements and design assurance frameworks.

Requirements

  • Candidates must hold an MEng or BEng degree and possess significant design management experience within the water or heavy civil engineering sectors. Proficiency in BIM, CDE systems, and experience discharging Principal Designer duties are essential requirements for this role.

Benefits

  • 27 days holiday
  • Discretionary annual bonus
  • Annual salary review
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Health screening
  • Enhanced sick pay
  • Enhanced maternity pay
  • Enhanced paternity pay
  • Maternity returners bonus
  • Wedding bonus
  • Subsidised canteen
  • Professional development investment
  • Retail discounts
  • Cashback
  • Discounted gym memberships
  • Cycle to work scheme

Key Skills

BIM (Building Information Modeling) CDE (Common Data Environment) systems Water infrastructure design Heavy civil engineering Design management Principal Designer responsibilities Project scheduling Resource allocation Design quality assurance Stakeholder coordination Team leadership Risk management Contract administration Technical documentation Problem solving Communication Negotiation Mentoring junior engineers Compliance with regulations Cross‑functional collaboration

About Murphy

Murphy is a leading international, multi-disciplined engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that improves life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, the USA and Australia, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation, water, energy and natural resources. We also have a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Plant; Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities. Murphy employs more than 4,200 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, we work as ‘One Murphy’ by directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. There’s more t

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