Design jobs in United Kingdom

Our client, a leading entity in the water business sector, is currently seeking a Project Manager / Lead Design Engineer to join its multidisciplinary water/wastewater design team. This permanent role involves leading the design delivery process across all project phases, ensuring technical quality, compliance, and on‑time delivery within a Design & Build environment.

The successful candidate will coordinate design teams and external stakeholders, manage design documentation and contracts, resolve technical issues, and support procurement and commercial processes. With a solid background in UK water infrastructure projects, you will also play a key role in client engagement and work‑winning activities.

• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary environment across teams worldwide, including the UK, to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Lead and contribute to the efficient delivery of projects to meet programme and budget, complying with business management governance.
• Lead and contribute to quality and safe design of technical solutions for projects in accordance with relevant design standards and codes.
• Implement corrective measures for identified design deviations or issues.
• Review, negotiate and recommend on design change orders.
• Administer design subcontracts including processing monthly invoices for payment, if necessary.
• Coordinate and monitor status of design programs complying with provisions of design contract in place.
• Perform or coordinate constructive reviews confirming design is to contract requirements, asset standards, water industry standards, and proposal commitments.
• Coordinate and control design submittals for clients' review and approval.
• Facilitate resolving design issues with clients.
• Manage client pre‑construction information, survey data and record drawings to help establish and maintain effective communication and information systems within the team, including construction and design teams.
• Manage and coordinate external stakeholders associated with the projects and related survey contractors.
• Complete regular team meetings with an appointment agenda and inform commitments to team members.
• Lead work‑winning initiatives through production of proposals, fees, and scope definition in response to client tenders/requests, in accordance with bid management system.
• Engage with clients and construction teams (including Design & Build) to discuss technical water engineering solutions with both technical and non‑technical clients during project delivery and bidding stages.

• Degree level education within engineering or equivalent field and Chartered or working towards chartership with the relevant institution.
• Hands‑on experience of design/design‑&‑build/project and bid delivery in the water and/or wastewater engineering sector in the UK.
• Highly motivated, organised, and with a strong desire to lead and contribute to technical excellence within project teams.
• Experience of working with contractors to deliver the successful implementation of engineering solutions in the Design & Build environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work both collaboratively and independently within a multidisciplinary team.
• Flexible approach to work type and locations for project assignments, if required, with a hybrid working model.

If you are an experienced and motivated Project Manager / Lead Design Engineer looking for a new opportunity in the water sector, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our client's dynamic and talented team.