Senior Design Manager

Responsibilities

Project & Design Leadership

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves:
What is our impact on the world? Watch Our Story:' ' Each and every role throughout our organisation makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world. We believe building engineering is more than systems and structures, it’s about powering progress and enabling innovation.

As part of HDR’s Building Engineering Services Group, you’ll help design the critical infrastructure that supports the digital age and shapes the spaces where people work, connect, and thrive. From high-performance data centre's driving the future of AI to dynamic commercial environments, your work will directly support technological advancement, sustainability, and human experience. We bring together mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering experts to solve complex design challenges with precision, creativity, and collaboration.

Whether you’re optimizing energy efficiency, integrating resilient systems, or engineering the backbone of next-generation facilities, your contributions will help define the future of the built environment. This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to lead innovation, engineer impact, and build a legacy of excellence.

As a Senior Design Manager (Internal title: Project Manager), you will lead the design delivery of complex multidisciplinary engineering and design projects, ensuring successful outcomes in programme, budget, quality, safety and client satisfaction. You will provide leadership to project teams, coordinate internal disciplines and external stakeholders, manage project risks and commercial matters, and drive excellence in project execution. The role combines strong project management disciplines with design leadership, requiring the ability to manage multiple work streams, influence senior stakeholders, and maintain a focus on technical quality, programme certainty and commercial performance.

You will also support business development activities and contribute to the growth and continuous improvement of the practice.

We are seeking a Senior Design Manager who is personable a self-starter with a positive, professional ‘can do’ attitude and the ability to maintain strong working relationships, who is able to work collaboratively across disciplines and establish effective rapport with team members, the wider business and clients. someone with strong leadership capability with ability to motivate, coach and guide diverse teams.

You will need excellent facilitation and communication skills (written and verbal), including leading meetings and producing clear minutes/actions. Strong document handling and quality discipline; comfortable managing transmittals, registers and approval workflows.

Project & Design Leadership

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams in the design delivery of complex projects from inception through completion
• Act as Deputy Project Manager or Project Manager subject to scale and complexity of project
• Establish project objectives, delivery strategies and execution plans aligned with client requirements
• Manage project scope, programme, quality, resources and budget to achieve agreed project outcomes
• Develop and maintain integrated design delivery programmes, identifying critical interfaces and dependencies
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