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Design Manager

Sweco 🇬🇧 Ipswich, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Manager

Lead design delivery for a portfolio of water recycling and wastewater projects, managing engineering plans and multidisciplinary teams across scope, programme, cost, risk, and resources. Collaborate with alliance partners and suppliers to deliver compliant, affordable, low-carbon solutions while promoting health and safety, digital engineering, innovation, and team development.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design delivery for a portfolio of water recycling and wastewater projects, managing engineering plans and multidisciplinary teams across scope, programme, cost, risk, and resources. Collaborate with alliance partners and suppliers to deliver compliant, affordable, low-carbon solutions while promoting health and safety, digital engineering, innovation, and team development.

Requirements

  • A degree in engineering or equivalent is required, along with chartered status or progress toward it and proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering capital-project design. Candidates should understand CDM and design responsibilities, have water-sector or infrastructure experience, and demonstrate strong project, risk, leadership, collaboration, and sustainability capabilities.

Benefits

  • Flexible And Hybrid Working
  • Competitive Pension Contribution
  • Life Assurance
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Company Car Or Car Allowance
  • Discretionary Annual Bonus
  • Payment Of Two Relevant Professional Subscriptions
  • 25 Days Of Holiday Plus Bank Holidays
  • Option To Purchase Up To Five Additional Holiday Days
  • Cycle To Work Scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Employee Discounts
  • Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
  • Tree Planted For Each New Starter

Key Skills

Project leadership Water‑sector engineering Design delivery management Multidisciplinary team coordination Scope, programme, and cost control Risk management CDM (Construction (Design & Management) Regulations) Digital engineering tools Sustainability and low‑carbon design Stakeholder collaboration Supplier and alliance partner management Budgeting Strategic planning Problem solving Leadership and mentoring Communication skills Technical drawing review Regulatory compliance Innovation facilitation Health & safety promotion

About Sweco

Sweco is at the heart of the green transition - planning and designing the sustainable communities and cities of the future. Together with our clients and the collective knowledge of our 23,000 architects, engineers and other specialists, we co-create solutions to address urbanisation, capture the power of digitalisation, and make our societies more sustainable. Sweco is Europe’s leading engineering and architecture consultancy, with sales of approximately SEK 29 billion (EUR 2.5 billion). The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

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