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Design Manager - Water Sector

Stantec 🇬🇧 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Manager

Lead multidisciplinary teams in planning and delivering water-sector projects from concept through detailed design, including clean water, wastewater, flood risk, and urban drainage work. Serve as the technical lead alongside project managers, coordinating clients and stakeholders and overseeing design-and-build, detailed design, and owner's engineer services.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multidisciplinary teams in planning and delivering water-sector projects from concept through detailed design, including clean water, wastewater, flood risk, and urban drainage work. Serve as the technical lead alongside project managers, coordinating clients and stakeholders and overseeing design-and-build, detailed design, and owner's engineer services.

Requirements

  • Applicants should be experienced engineers with strong technical expertise in civil, mechanical, electrical, process, or another relevant discipline; chartership is preferred, with support available to achieve it. They should have demonstrable experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and managing multiple projects and stakeholders, while major-project experience is highly desirable.

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
  • Professional Training and Development
  • Paid Professional Subscriptions

Key Skills

Leadership Multidisciplinary team management Project management Stakeholder coordination Civil engineering Mechanical engineering Electrical engineering Process engineering Chartership support Design‑and‑build delivery Detailed design oversight Owner's engineer services Water infrastructure design Wastewater treatment design Flood risk assessment Urban drainage planning Technical consulting Sustainable engineering practices Regulatory compliance Risk management Client relationship management Budget management Schedule coordination Mentoring junior engineers Cross‑functional collaboration Digital engineering tools Environmental impact analysis Innovation and technology adoption

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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