We are looking to strengthen our Engineering team with a Senior Design Manager, based at a suitable location within our Northern Region with flexible working available.
Are you an experienced Senior Design Manager ready to drive the successful delivery of complex water and wastewater infrastructure projects? At MWH Treatment, our design leaders play a critical role in shaping innovative, sustainable solutions that help deliver safer, smarter, and more resilient water services for our customers and communities.
We are looking for a Senior Design Manager to provide leadership across the design lifecycle, ensuring high-quality, technically robust, and buildable solutions are developed and delivered. Working across a portfolio of major projects, you will lead multidisciplinary teams, influence project outcomes, and drive collaboration to ensure designs meet client requirements, programme objectives, and regulatory standards.
Key responsibilities:
- Leading engineering and design delivery across a portfolio of projects, from scope definition through to handover.
- Making sure designs meet health and safety, quality, technical, environmental, sustainability and governance requirements.
- Working closely with designers, technical specialists, suppliers, construction teams and clients to deliver successful project outcomes.
- Managing design plans, deliverables, risks, decisions, change control and monthly reporting.
- Supporting a culture of open communication, constructive challenge, shared learning and continuous improvement.
About You
Essential:
- Extensive multidisciplinary design-management experience, ideally in a design-build environment.
- An engineering degree and Chartered Engineer status, or equivalent professional standing.
- Strong knowledge of construction health and safety, CDM, design assurance and large-scale project delivery.
- Experience in the water or wastewater sector would be highly beneficial.
- A collaborative, solution-focused approach and the ability to build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Why join us?
At MWH Treatment, Design Management is central to the successful delivery of major water and wastewater infrastructure projects. As a Senior Design Manager, you will lead multidisciplinary teams, shape project outcomes and drive the delivery of safe, sustainable and buildable solutions that make a real difference to customers, communities and the environment.
- Lead the design delivery of strategically important water and wastewater projects.
- Influence key project decisions across design, construction and commissioning phases.
- Work in a collaborative design-and-build environment alongside experienced engineering and delivery teams.
- Develop your leadership skills through managing multidisciplinary teams and mentoring future talent.
- Be part of a business focused on safety, sustainability, innovation and delivering lasting value for customers and communities.
About Us
At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed. Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills.
As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace. We don’t just tick boxes; we live these values every day.
What MWH offer
Packages include -
A competitive salary
Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent)
Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)
25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
Contribution Pension scheme
Life Assurance
Health Insurance
Private Medical Insurance
And many more benefits including – cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc
Senior Design Manager - North Division in Belfast employer: MWH Treatment
MWH Treatment is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment at our Morestead Road site where you can thrive in your role as a General Foreman. We prioritise employee growth and well-being, providing comprehensive benefits such as hybrid working options, generous holiday allowances, and health insurance, all while fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. Join us to be part of a team that values your contributions and supports your professional development in the water sector.
