Design Manager - Water

Mott MacDonald; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK engineering consultancy seeks a Design Manager to oversee a multi-disciplinary team for delivering a clean water programme. This role involves ensuring timely and budget-efficient project delivery while maintaining technical excellence. Candidates should have Chartered Status and experience in the UK water sector. It offers opportunities for mentoring and contributing to new technological innovations. A hybrid working model is available along with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Employee ownership model

Private medical insurance

Generous holiday allowance

Flexible benefits programme

Qualifications

• Significant experience in development and delivery of feasibility and outline design solutions within the UK water sector.
• Ability to check and review technical deliverables, calculations and reports.
• Desire to take a leading role with client engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary design team and deliver the clean water programme.
• Collaborate with technical discipline leads.
• Manage client relationships as a primary contact.

Skills

Chartered Status (CEng) with a recognised Professional Institution

Understanding of conventional and innovative water treatment technologies

Strong communication skills

Track record in building teams and capability of junior staff

Education

Chartered Engineer qualification

Job description

Overview

Having been appointed to a large UK water consultancy framework in 2024, we are looking for a Design Manager to manage a multi-disciplinary team and lead the delivery of our clean water programme of works. You would build on the good work done in establishing our framework and work with our technical discipline leads to ensure projects within the clean water programme are delivered on time, budget and drive technical excellence. This will be a customer facing role requiring close working relationships with the client leadership team as part of a collaborative.

The role is expected to progress and evolve in line with the framework requirements and the candidates’ own skills and development areas. It offers an excellent opportunity to create future-proofed services and solutions that embrace latest innovations in digital technology and the chance to mentor the next generation of talent within our business.

Responsibilities

Lead a multi-disciplinary design team and deliver the clean water programme within the UK water consultancy framework. Collaborate with technical discipline leads to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget, while maintaining technical excellence. Manage client relationships and act as a key point of contact for the client leadership team. Support bids, fee proposals or offers of service as required. Mentor and develop junior staff and build teams and capability.

Qualifications

• Chartered Status (CEng) with a recognised Professional Institution
• An understanding of conventional and innovative water treatment technologies
• Track record of engineering technical leadership
• Significant experience in development and delivery of feasibility and outline design solutions within the UK water sector
• Ability to support bids, fee proposals or offers of service
• Ability to check and review technical deliverables, calculations and reports
• Strong communication skills with experience in effective collaboration across internal multi-disciplinary teams as well as Client teams
• Desire to take a leading role with client engagement
• Track record in building teams and capability of junior staff
• Understanding of key water sector treatment and sustainability needs
• Understanding of drivers for wastewater treatment investment in England and Wales
• Excellent technical report writing skills using concise English

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment whereeveryonefeels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@ mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, clickhere.