Design Manager - Anglian Water

Design Manager

Location:

East Anglia, with travel to project sites as required Sector:
Civil Engineering | Water and Wastewater Infrastructure | Major Projects Great design is about more than technical solutions. It's about bringing people together, solving complex challenges and creating infrastructure that works safely, efficiently and sustainably for the communities that depend on it. Are you a motivated and collaborative Design Manager lookigng to support the delivery of major water and wastewater infrastructure projects across East Anglia for Anglian Water?

This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of design coordination and delivery across complex infrastructure schemes, working alongside engineering specialists, project teams, external consultants and the client. You'll help turn design concepts into practical, buildable solutions, ensuring that technical requirements, programme milestones and project objectives remain aligned. You'll have the opportunity to influence how projects are delivered, contribute to innovative engineering solutions and build strong relationships across the project team.

If you're passionate about engineering, enjoy tackling challenges and want to see your work make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you. What you'll be doing As a Design Manager, you'll coordinate design activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that information is developed, reviewed and delivered in line with project requirements. Working closely with Project Managers, construction teams, commercial colleagues, designers and other stakeholders, you'll help ensure that design decisions support safe, efficient and successful project delivery.

Your responsibilities will include:
· Coordinating design activities from early development and design planning through to construction and project completion.
· Managing design programmes, tracking deliverables and ensuring information is provided in line with project milestones.
· Working with internal engineering teams, external consultants and specialist designers to coordinate design inputs across multiple disciplines.
· Collaborating with construction teams to ensure designs are practical, buildable and aligned with proposed construction methodologies.
· Supporting the integration of civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and other relevant engineering disciplines.
· Monitoring design progress, identifying potential delays and helping implement solutions to keep activities on track.
· Identifying and managing design risks, technical interfaces, constraints and outstanding information requirements.
· Facilitating design reviews, technical meetings and coordination workshops to resolve issues and maintain progress.
· Supporting value engineering and design optimisation initiatives to improve efficiency, reduce waste and deliver value for the client.
· Ensuring design deliverables comply with project specifications, relevant standards, regulatory requirements and quality expectations.
· Working with construction teams to respond to technical queries, resolve design issues and coordinate changes as projects progress.
· Supporting the management of design changes and assessing their potential impact on programme, cost, quality and delivery.
· Promoting health, safety and environmental considerations throughout the design process, including effective design risk management.
· Building positive working relationships with the client, supply chain partners, consultants and wider project stakeholders.
· Contributing to continuous improvement by sharing lessons learned, identifying better ways of working and supporting effective design management practices. What we're looking for Are you an organised, proactive and…