Senior Project Manager - Design Delivery in Manchester

Do you enjoy bringing people, projects, and ideas together to deliver complex engineering solutions? Are you motivated by creating clarity, building strong relationships, and guiding multidisciplinary teams through challenging design programmes? Join us as a Senior Project Manager - Design Delivery, where you'll lead complex, high-value, and strategically significant projects across our Nuclear New Build business. This is an opportunity to shape the successful delivery of major engineering design programmes while fostering collaboration, empowering teams, and building trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders.

At AtkinsRéalis, we recognise that great leadership comes in many forms. We value diverse perspectives, inclusive leadership styles, and the unique strengths each individual brings. Here, you'll have the platform to influence outcomes, support talented teams, and contribute to safe, coordinated, and commercially successful project delivery.

Your role:

• Play a key role within our Nuclear New Build business, leading complex engineering design programmes as part of the Project Delivery Capability team.
• Shape delivery strategies and oversee multiple projects, including large and technically complex design packages.
• Establish effective governance frameworks, controls, assurance routes, and interface management arrangements that enable successful delivery.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams in line with AtkinsRéalis values, processes, and collaborative ways of working.
• Take overall accountability for project performance across schedule, cost, margin, quality, risk, and change management.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, project managers, and technical leaders, helping teams navigate challenges, resolve competing priorities, and achieve successful outcomes.
• Ensure designs progress through appropriate review, approval, and configuration control processes.
• Lead or contribute to major bids and proposals, helping to shape delivery solutions, resource strategies, and client-focused approaches.

About you:

• You enjoy bringing multidisciplinary engineering teams together and creating an environment where people feel empowered, connected, and supported to perform at their best.
• You have experience working within structured engineering design lifecycles and delivering large-scale, complex, or multi-million-pound design programmes.
• You are confident managing commercial performance, forecasting, risk management, change control, and recovery planning.
• You understand the importance of design governance, technical assurance, configuration control, and managing complex interfaces effectively.
• You build credibility with senior clients and technical stakeholders, influencing outcomes while maintaining a strong focus on safe and successful delivery.
• You communicate with clarity and confidence across both technical and commercial environments.
• You enjoy developing others, coaching project managers and technical leaders, and helping teams and individuals succeed.
• You confidently navigate ambiguity, make informed decisions, and take a proactive, adaptable, and solutions-focused approach to overcoming challenges.

Rewards & benefits:

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

Security clearance:

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.