Design Manager

Civil Design Manager

Excellent opportunity to transfer your skills to a Tier 1 contractor's Power and Energy team supporting Scottish Power and SSEN frameworks.

Salary: £60,000 – £65,000 basic + car + bonus + package.

Location:

Glasgow.

Hybrid working: 3 days office/site, 2 days working from home.

We are looking for a Design Manager to serve as the technical interface between the design consultancy, Tier 1 / Main Contractor, and Scottish Power/SSEN. The role will manage technical assurance throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring designs meet correct standards, specifications, and asset requirements, and are delivered correctly on site.

The Design Manager will be involved from the design stage through to construction, working closely with project delivery teams to review buildability, manage design risks, and address technical issues highlighted during delivery. Projects include sub-stations, high voltage direct current (HVDC) underground cables and overhead line pylons.

• Act as the technical interface between design consultants, the Tier 1 contractor, and client, ensuring designs are compliant, coordinated, and buildable across the projects.
• Manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary design teams, overseeing the design process from optioneering through detailed design and construction support.
• Ensure compliance with Scottish Power/SSE/SSEN standards, regulatory requirements, and CDM regulations, leading design risk and constructability reviews.
• Manage design change, technical queries, and interface with commercial and delivery teams to control programme and cost impacts.
• Implement and maintain robust quality assurance processes, reviewing and approving design deliverables to ensure high technical and safety standards.

• Degree qualified, ideally in civil engineering or a related subject.
• Post-graduation experience in a design coordinator position on heavy civil engineering projects such as highways, rail, water, environmental, flood defence, etc.
• Or an experienced design engineer looking to move into a design manager position, managing stakeholders and site interactions.

We encourage experienced coordinators or designers who want to progress into design management to apply.

NOTE:

You must live in the UK and be eligible to work here.