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Principal Design Manager (Data Centres) - London, Bicester or Newcastle upon Tyne

Engie 🇬🇧 Bucknell, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Senior

Lead design teams and manage complex technology-sector projects from pre-contract through post-contract, ensuring quality, schedule, contractual compliance, and financial performance. Manage client and stakeholder relationships, design coordination and approvals, sub-consultants, project reporting, and team development.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design teams and manage complex technology-sector projects from pre-contract through post-contract, ensuring quality, schedule, contractual compliance, and financial performance. Manage client and stakeholder relationships, design coordination and approvals, sub-consultants, project reporting, and team development.

Requirements

  • Requires an appropriate engineering degree, professional membership, Chartered Engineer or Chartered Project Professional status, and more than 10 years of senior-level experience. Candidates should have substantial design-team and project-delivery experience, strong leadership and client-facing skills, knowledge of contracts and UK regulations, and proficiency with Microsoft Project or similar tools.

Benefits

  • Annual Leave
  • Holiday Purchase And Buyback Scheme
  • Hybrid Working
  • Contributory Company Pension Scheme
  • Healthcare Scheme
  • Bonus Awards
  • Training Sponsorship
  • Charity Volunteering Leave
  • Wellness Days And Initiatives

Key Skills

Leadership of design teams Technology‑sector project management Pre‑ and post‑contract delivery Quality control Schedule management Contract compliance Financial performance monitoring Client relationship management Design coordination Sub‑consultant management Project reporting Team development Microsoft Project Chartered Engineer status Strategic leadership

About Engie

What if your next career adventure started with ENGIE? Joining ENGIE means being part of a company at the forefront of the energy transition, committed to accelerating the shift to a carbon-neutral economy. With 98,000 employees across 30 countries, ENGIE's operations cover the entire energy value chain, from production to infrastructures and sales. ENGIE works across a range of complementary areas: renewable electricity and green gas production, flexibility assets (notably batteries), gas and electricity transmission and distribution networks, local energy infrastructures (heating and cooling networks) and energy supply to individuals, local authorities and businesses. #WithENGIE

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