Design Manager

We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.

We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.

With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.

We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.

In your new position as Design Manager, you will lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team (circa 15-20 staff) to deliver engineering design solutions for a portfolio of water (potable) non-infrastructure projects ranging from asset/storage point maintenance; ground water abstraction; water treatment works upgrades and emergency projects .

• Lead and manage the engineering design delivery for the storage points, maintenance and emergencies portfolio on water (potable) non-infrastructure projects

• Develop and manage Engineering Project Plans that include scope, program, cost, risk, and resources.

• Provide direction on suitable treatment methods and process design in collaboration with Senior Discipline Engineers.

• Assess project complexity and assign suitably competent engineering resources.

• Implement design quality procedures and ensure adherence to achieve a right-first-time philosophy.

• Manage supplier and subcontractor design input, including engagement, selection, management, and integration of designs.

• Work in partnership with other functions to deliver outcomes for your portfolio.

• Seek and deliver opportunities to achieve affordability and value within your portfolio.

• Support the development and management of project programs to achieve milestones and drive efficiencies.

• Produce designs that contribute to enhancing sustainability.

• Undertake delegated duties of the Principal Designer as per CDM Regulations.

• Manage CDM competency assessments for your team and projects.

• Ensure the production of design risk assessments and manage health & safety documentation for your portfolio.

• Provide clear, consistent, and visible leadership to…