At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead innovative water infrastructure projects and manage multidisciplinary design teams.
- Company: Join AECOM, a global leader in infrastructure consulting.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible hybrid working, career development, and personalised benefits.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with opportunities for growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on communities and the environment through sustainable solutions.
- Qualifications: Experience in water engineering and team leadership required.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
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.
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. At AECOM, we’re at the forefront of delivering exceptional water programmes and projects through long-term partnerships with leading clients, including Wessex Water, Thames Water, Welsh Water, Southern Water, Severn Trent Water, and South West Water.
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:
- Design elements of Alderney and Knapp Mill water treatment plants for South West Water
- Avonmouth water recycling centre for Wessex Water
- Wanlip sewage treatment plant for Severn Trent Water
- A large programme of AMP8 treatment works upgrades for Southern Water
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.
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.
- 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 partners to ensure stakeholder buy-in to solutions, also contributing to AECOM’s wider technical capability and innovative approach.
- Develop: Perform line manager duties 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 deliver infrastructure solutions, but also safeguard human health and the environment.
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.
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.
- Relevant experience in a similar role for a water company, consultancy, or contractor.
- Hands-on experience designing complex wastewater treatment solutions.
- A degree or equivalent in a related engineering subject (e.g. civil, electrical, mechanical) and/or equivalent experience.
- 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.
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Remote Water Design Manager in Crawley employer: AECOM
At AECOM, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. With a strong commitment to employee growth, we provide extensive career development opportunities, flexible hybrid working arrangements, and a supportive environment that values diversity and inclusion. Join us in our mission to deliver a better world while enjoying the benefits of working with a global leader in infrastructure consulting.
