North Regional Facades Leader in Manchester

As Regional Lead you will work in close partnership with the UK Facades Discipline Leader, UK regional leadership, sector leaders and other technical disciplines to convert opportunities into secured work, deliver technical excellence, and build a high‑performing regional team.

Responsibilities

• Act as a visible senior façade engineering leader in the North of England, representing Buro Happold with clients, collaborators and the wider industry.
• Grow the façade engineering business across the North of England in line with UK and global Facades strategies.
• Strengthen technical leadership, project delivery oversight and consistency of quality across regional projects.
• Build, lead and develop a sustainable regional team, aligned with projected workload and long‑term succession planning.
• Oversee pastoral and HR matters and lead recruitment and retention strategy for the Northern Façade business.
• Enhance collaboration and knowledge‑sharing between London, the North and other UK and global offices.
• Own a portfolio of projects at Project Director level.
• Lead and grow Buro Happold’s Façade Engineering team in the North of England, based in either Manchester or Leeds.

Qualifications

• Highly experienced façade engineering professional with a strong track record of delivering high‑quality façade consultancy projects.
• Recognised technical and commercial leader, with experience working on complex and/or large‑scale projects.
• Demonstrable experience in business development, client relationship management and work gaining within the UK market.
• Strong people leader, with experience building, mentoring and managing teams.
• Well networked within the industry, with established relationships across architects, developers, contractors and specialist contractors.
• Comfortable operating in a senior leadership role, balancing strategic, commercial, technical and people responsibilities.
• Degree qualified in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Professionally registered and a member of a relevant institution.

Benefits

• Attractive benefits package including car allowance (10%), private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• Generous company pension scheme – 10% employer contribution.
• Performance incentive scheme, up to 8% of basic salary.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• Professional development programme – entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• Commitment to wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities.
• A supportive and inclusive environment with social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.

Buro Happold values an individual’s flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those seeking flexibility in their careers. Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key; we want employees to feel they do not have to mask elements of their identity to thrive. We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are under‑represented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions. Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.