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Design Manager - Water Sector

Stantec 🇬🇧 Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom

Onsite Full-time Manager

Lead multidisciplinary teams in planning and delivering major water-sector projects, from concept through detailed design, including design-and-build and owner’s engineer services. Partner with project managers and clients to oversee technical delivery, coordinate internal and external disciplines, and achieve best value and service excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multidisciplinary teams in planning and delivering major water-sector projects, from concept through detailed design, including design-and-build and owner’s engineer services. Partner with project managers and clients to oversee technical delivery, coordinate internal and external disciplines, and achieve best value and service excellence.

Requirements

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

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary
  • 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
  • Hybrid and Flexible Working
  • Training and Development
  • Paid Professional Subscriptions

Key Skills

Design Management Multidisciplinary Team Leadership Water‑Sector Project Planning Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Process Engineering Design‑and‑Build Delivery Owner’s Engineer Services Technical Coordination Stakeholder Management Project Scheduling Risk Management Regulatory Compliance BIM AutoCAD Design Standards Communication Skills Problem Solving Mentoring

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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