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Design Manager - Water Sector

Stantec 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Full-time

Lead multidisciplinary teams in delivering water-sector projects from concept through detailed design, including clean water, wastewater, flood risk, and urban drainage work. Plan and oversee technical delivery across major projects, collaborate with clients and project managers, and ensure value and service excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multidisciplinary teams in delivering water-sector projects from concept through detailed design, including clean water, wastewater, flood risk, and urban drainage work. Plan and oversee technical delivery across major projects, collaborate with clients and project managers, and ensure value and service excellence.

Requirements

  • Candidates should be experienced engineers with strong technical expertise in civil, mechanical and electrical, process, or another relevant discipline, and demonstrable experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing multiple projects and stakeholders. Chartered status is preferred, support toward chartership is available, and experience on major projects is highly desirable.

Benefits

  • Bonus Schemes
  • Enhanced Pension Plan
  • Annual Leave
  • Option to Buy or Sell Additional Leave
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Group Income Protection
  • Life Assurance
  • Discounted Gym Membership
  • Professional Training and Development
  • Paid Professional Subscriptions
  • Hybrid and Flexible Working

Key Skills

Civil engineering Mechanical engineering Electrical engineering Process engineering Multidisciplinary team leadership Water‑sector project delivery Clean water and wastewater design Flood risk and urban drainage planning Technical delivery oversight Client collaboration Project management Value and service excellence Chartered engineering status Stakeholder coordination Sustainable water solutions

About Stantec

Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before. We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more. Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We i

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