Design Manager - Water

Develop Your Career with One of the Most Diverse Portfolios of Civil Engineering Projects At AtkinsRéalis, our Design & Advanced Technology practice brings together some of the UK's most diverse engineering and design expertise to tackle the most complex challenges facing our clients and communities across major infrastructure, transportation, energy, water, aviation, and development projects.

We are looking for a motivated, capable and experienced Design Manager to join our growing Design & Advanced Technology (D&AT) Practice, delivering innovative and sustainable solutions. You'll be part of a talented multi-disciplinary water team delivering cutting edge, iconic projects to our Water market clients – clients such as Yorkshire Water, United Utilities, Thames Water, Anglian Water, South-East Water, Southern Water, as well as other regional water authorities.

This provides exceptional opportunities to broaden your experience, deepen your technical expertise, and accelerate your career progression.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced engineer to further develop their technical expertise, broaden their commercial experience, and take on greater responsibility working towards technical leadership, design management, or people leadership within a supportive and collaborative environment.

When you join us, you'll become part of a collaborative community of experts who challenge conventional thinking and push the boundaries of engineering excellence.

You’ll benefit from:

• Opportunities to work across a wide variety of sectors, projects and clients.

• Exposure to a diverse range of engineering challenges including complex nationally significant water programmes.

• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across the UK and internationally.

• Opportunities to influence project outcomes from concept through to delivery.

• A culture that encourages innovation, technical excellence and professional growth.

• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements that support work-life balance.

• Clear career progression pathways and professional development opportunities

We offer hybrid working which involves 3 days per week being office/site based. This position is based in our Manchester, London, Peterborough, Cambridge, Cardiff, Swansea, Derby, Leeds, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow Offices.

As a Design Manager in the D&AT practice, the successful candidate would have the following responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate engineering teams to deliver high-quality water and wastewater infrastructure designs in line with relevant standards and project requirements.

• Oversee the production and review of technical deliverables, including reports, drawings, calculations, and scopes of work.

• Drive technical design inputs on complex multi-disciplinary projects while managing programme milestones, time frames, and budgets.

• Collaborate closely with clients, operational teams, project managers, and wider AtkinsRéalis teams to achieve successful project outcomes.

• Mentor and support junior engineers, helping to develop technical capability within the local team.

• Work independently, applying professional judgement to solve complex engineering challenges and provide technical guidance to others.

• Support bid submissions, contribute to integrated design solutions with UK and international teams, and ensure compliance with quality assurance and design review processes.

We're interested in people who are technically strong, commercially aware and genuinely enjoy collaborative working environments.

We are looking for people who demonstrate a willingness to learn, a proactive approach to problem solving, and the ability to work collaboratively within diverse project teams.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Degree-q…