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Design Manager

Costain Group Plc 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Manager

Manage design delivery for the M60 Simister Island Scheme, including designer appointments, design programmes, budgets, BIM requirements, reviews, change control, and contractual matters. Coordinate project teams and stakeholders, manage technical and safety risks, ensure design compliance and constructability, and promote innovation and low-carbon solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Manage design delivery for the M60 Simister Island Scheme, including designer appointments, design programmes, budgets, BIM requirements, reviews, change control, and contractual matters. Coordinate project teams and stakeholders, manage technical and safety risks, ensure design compliance and constructability, and promote innovation and low-carbon solutions.

Requirements

  • Requires extensive postgraduate experience in design, engineering, or management within infrastructure or a related industry, with strong technical review, analytical, communication, negotiation, and team leadership abilities. A bachelor's degree or an engineering or management apprenticeship with industry experience is required; chartered professional membership and project or risk management training are desirable.

Key Skills

Design management Infrastructure design BIM coordination Project budgeting Design programmes Change control Technical risk management Safety risk management Design compliance Constructability reviews Low‑carbon solution promotion Team leadership Stakeholder coordination Negotiation Analytical thinking Communication Postgraduate engineering experience Chartered professional membership Project risk management training Contractual management Engineering standards Agile methodology Design thinking

About Costain Group Plc

Costain helps to improve people’s lives by creating connected, sustainable infrastructure that enables people and the planet thrive. We shape, create and deliver pioneering solutions that transform the performance of the infrastructure ecosystem across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We are organised around our customers anticipating and solving their challenges and helping to improve performance. By bringing together our unique mix of construction, consulting and digital experts we engineer and deliver sustainable, efficient and practical solutions. Our ambition is to become a net zero business by 2035, while enhancing biodiversity and natural capital, and we have plans in place to deliver this. We are committed to procure responsibly and to be an inclusive and accessible business for all, enabling us to be our best while focusing on the outcomes that we deliver for people and planet. At Costain, we have a vibrant, challenging and growing business – a

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