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Principal Design Manager

Mott Macdonald 🇬🇧 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Full-time Principal

Lead the technical delivery and multidisciplinary integration of rail civil engineering projects, ensuring designs are safe, practical, sustainable, and meet client objectives. Build client and stakeholder relationships, support project managers and business development, manage risks, and mentor engineers to strengthen technical excellence across the team.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical delivery and multidisciplinary integration of rail civil engineering projects, ensuring designs are safe, practical, sustainable, and meet client objectives. Build client and stakeholder relationships, support project managers and business development, manage risks, and mentor engineers to strengthen technical excellence across the team.

Requirements

  • Applicants need a civil engineering or related degree, CEng or IEng status, and extensive UK rail-sector experience delivering multidisciplinary projects, including complex detailed-design and design-and-build work. They should demonstrate strong technical leadership, communication, and mentoring skills, with knowledge of rail assurance and governance; experience with railway structures, stations, construction, or commissioning is advantageous.

Benefits

  • Employee Pension Contributions
  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection
  • Annual Bonus
  • Employee Ownership
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Health Cash Plan
  • Wellbeing Support
  • Paid Annual Leave
  • Enhanced Family Leave
  • Professional Institution Subscription
  • Training And Development
  • Employee Discounts

Key Skills

Technical delivery leadership Multidisciplinary integration Rail civil engineering design Safety and sustainability standards Client relationship management Stakeholder engagement Project risk management Mentoring engineers Technical excellence promotion Rail assurance knowledge Governance compliance Structural design for rail stations Construction documentation Design‑and‑build project experience Communication skills Leadership Strategic planning Problem solving Civil engineering expertise Professional Engineering (CEng/IEng)

About Mott Macdonald

We are an engineering, management and development consultancy and one of the largest wholly employee-owned firms of our kind. We plan, design, deliver and maintain the transport, energy, water, defence and security, and buildings infrastructure that is integral to people's daily lives. Our core strength is using our expertise to overcome complex challenges to deliver benefits for our clients and the communities they serve.

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