Principal Design Manager

Altrincham, United Kingdom / Birmingham, United Kingdom / Manchester, United Kingdom / Sheffield, United Kingdom / York, United Kingdom

Location/s: Altrincham, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, York; UK

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

We are seeking an experienced Principal Design Manager to join our Rail Stations and Civil Engineering team to lead the design, integration and delivery process of a range of projects from major rail improvement projects to smaller local community rail enhancement and renewal projects. As part of this key team, you will have the opportunity to shape and grow the local rail civil engineering team within our UK wide team, focusing on embedding technical excellence at the core of everything we do.

You will play a key role in supporting the delivery of high-profile station, structures and transport infrastructure schemes, while developing strong relationships with clients, local authorities and strategic partners and design and build contractor clients.

As a senior technical leader, you will also be expected to mentor and develop early career professionals and other members of the engineering team, ensuring technical excellence remains at the heart of everything we do.

• Lead and oversee the technical delivery of rail civil engineering projects across the UK with a focus on providing integrated design solutions across multi-discipline designs
• Proactively manage the input from multiple rail design discipline engineers, specialists in their field from across our business
• Prepare, review and, deliver high-quality engineering solutions that are safe, practical, sustainable and deliver optimal Client outcomes
• Be a focal point for our clients for the technical delivery of our projects
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, including clients and our rail discipline leads for engineering support
• Collaborate with business development teams to identify and pursue new project opportunities
• Support project managers in achieving programme, budget and quality objectives
• Identify and mitigate project risks, implementing effective solutions to address challenges and ensuring right-first time integrated delivery
• Mentor, coach and…