At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead design for major water and wastewater projects, ensuring effective infrastructure development.
- Company: Join a leading firm shaping the UK's essential infrastructure with a collaborative approach.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible work options, competitive salary, health coverage, and professional growth opportunities.
- Other info: Be part of a culture that values success, creativity, and community engagement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on communities while driving innovation in large-scale infrastructure.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in design leadership and project management for complex engineering projects.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Your impact
You will help shape how some of the UK’s most important water and wastewater programmes move from strategy into safe, buildable and effective infrastructure.
Your leadership will bring engineering disciplines, construction teams and client stakeholders together around clear design decisions.
You will help identify risk earlier, improve buildability and ensure commissioning, operational performance and whole-life value are considered throughout the design process.
You will play a key role in building trusted client relationships, providing strategic design leadership and acting as a senior point of contact to help shape project outcomes and identify future opportunities.
This is a role where judgement matters.
You will be trusted to challenge assumptions, manage competing priorities and give clients confidence that complex programmes are technically sound and commercially deliverable.
You will also influence how design is managed across the wider practice.
By improving approaches to standardisation, automation, assurance and multidisciplinary delivery, you will help teams work more effectively and create stronger outcomes for clients and communities.
Qualifications
- Technical leadership in the design and project management of large-scale infrastructure programmes.
- Expertise in multidisciplinary engineering and construction integration.
- NEC3/4 contract and change control experience.
- Knowledge of CDM regulations and processes.
- Passion and enthusiasm for problem solving, creating and delivering innovation.
- Track record in developing and fostering a culture focused on success.
- Ability to operate autonomously across a wide range of complex projects with authority.
- Be a great communicator able to explain complex technical issues to multiple stakeholders with different backgrounds and levels of expertise.
Benefits
- Competitive salary that reflects your skills and experience.
- Flexible work arrangements – hybrid, part-time and flexible hours and locations.
- Robust pension contributions – enhanced contributions up to 10%.
- Comprehensive health coverage – single medical cover, digital GP service, options to add partner and family.
- Family planning support – fertility healthcare and related services.
- Enhanced parental leave – extended pay and access to employee assistance.
- Wellbeing hub – free access to wellbeing apps.
- Professional development – cover for professional membership fees and continuous professional development opportunities.
- Community engagement – charity matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
- EEO & Accessibility
As a disability confident employer, we will interview disabled candidates who best meet the criteria.
We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.
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Senior Design Manager employer: Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
At Jacobs, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering our Hydraulic Engineers the chance to work on transformative water infrastructure projects that have a real impact on communities and the environment. With a strong commitment to professional development, flexible working arrangements, and a collaborative culture, we empower our employees to thrive while shaping the future of the UK's water sector. Join us to be part of a dynamic team where your contributions are valued and your career can flourish.
Contact Details:
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Recruitment Team
