Design Manager - Wastewater Treatment in London

Primary Location: UK - Croydon, 69 Park Lane

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Are you ready to lead a multidisciplinary design team and shape the future of water infrastructure? Join our dynamic and multidisciplinary Water team as a Design Manager in our rapidly growing South East offices, as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.

At AECOM, we lead the way in delivering exceptional water programs and projects through long-term partnerships with key clients, including major UK water companies like Wessex Water, Thames Water, Welsh Water, and South West Water, as well as international contractors. In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating a multi-disciplinary team of civil/structural engineers, process engineers, mechanical engineers and electrical engineers to produce a single solution design for several water and wastewater treatment facilities for the Southern Water Services framework.

This is a fantastic opportunity to advance your career as a technical design lead, delivering diverse solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead: Drive technical delivery of wastewater and water infrastructure / treatment projects, managing multi-disciplinary technical teams to deliver value added solutions to client challenges throughout the design lifecycle.
• Manage: Oversee key packages of work from conception to handover, interfacing with AECOM teams, clients and suppliers to create a seamless technical solution.
• Collaborate: Work closely with clients and AECOM counterparts to ensure stakeholder buy in to solutions, also contributing to AECOM’s wider technical capability and innovative approach.
• Develop: Perform line manager duties for several staff and support the development of junior team members, managing their input to projects and mentoring them.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 700 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier civil, mechanical, electrical, and process engineers to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large‑scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion. Here, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward‑thinking environment where your contributions are valued.

Enjoy the Perks. At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well‑being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work‑life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Experience in managing the technical delivery of water and wastewater engineering projects with multi-disciplinary knowledge, ideally including treatment schemes and/or pipeline design. You will also have experience leading multi-disciplinary design teams.
• You will act as a Technical Lead in at least one discipline in addition to coordinating other disciplines.
• A degree or equivalent in a related engineering subject (e.g. civil, electrical, mechanical) and/or equivalent experience.
• Hands on experience, designing complex wastewater treatment solutions.
• Chartered or Incorporated with a relevant institution e.g. ICE, CIWEM or working towards it.
• Experience of undertaking feasibility studies, options appraisal and concept design, and/or outline and detailed design for water company clients and design and build contractors.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you! We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.