Design Manager - WATER (Permanent) in Basingstoke, Hampshire

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

Ready to lead a multidisciplinary design team and shape the future of water infrastructure? Join our dynamic Water Solutions team as a Design Manager, based in our rapidly growing England & Wales offices with the benefit of our flexible hybrid working model.

In this role, you'll work on high-impact projects ranging from potable water and sewage networks to treatment works of all scales, covering all stages of design and delivery, from feasibility to construction, operation, maintenance, and asset management. Examples of our major ongoing projects include working with our partners to deliver design elements of Alderney and Knapp Mill water treatment plants for South West Water, Avonmouth water recycling centre for Wessex Water, the Wanlip sewage treatment plant for Severn Trent Water, and a large programme of AMP8 treatment works upgrades for Southern Water, and other water companies.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take the next step in your career in technical project leadership, helping to deliver creative, sustainable solutions that address today's challenges and anticipate tomorrow's needs. For the right applicants who are looking to further grow their leadership and operational capability, we also have part-time opportunities to take on additional team responsibilities alongside this role, such as managing and developing our teams to ensure brilliant delivery within our Water business in England & Wales, and driving AECOM's culture, values and quality.

Here's what you'll do:

• Lead: Drive technical delivery of water and wastewater infrastructure / treatment projects, managing multi-disciplinary technical teams to deliver value added solutions to client challenges throughout the design lifecycle.
• Collaborate: Work closely with clients and AECOM partners to ensure stakeholder buy-in to solutions, also contributing to AECOM's wider technical capability and innovative approach.
• Perform line manager duties and support the development of junior team members, managing their input to projects and mentoring them.

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. Relevant experience in a similar role for a water company, consultancy or contractor.

A degree or equivalent in a related engineering subject (e.g. civil, electrical, mechanical) and/or equivalent experience. 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. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAccomodations@aecom.

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AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivalled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. 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.