Design Manager - Wastewater

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Location/s: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Newport, Croydon, Cambridge, Reading & London; UK

Recruiter contact: Nicola Coyle

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The Water Utilities Division is Mott Mac Donald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland's water and wastewater challenges. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi‑disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design.

Together, we deliver best‑in‑class solutions to our clients while offering diverse and technically stimulating opportunities to our people.

Having been appointed to a large UK water consultancy framework in 2024, we are looking for a Design Manager to manage a multi‑disciplinary team and lead the delivery of our wastewater programme of works. You will build on the good work done in establishing our framework and work with our technical discipline leads to ensure projects within the clean water programme are delivered on time, budget and drive technical excellence.

This will be a customer facing role requiring close working relationships with the client leadership team as part of a collaborative.

The role is expected to progress and evolve in line with the framework requirements and the candidates’ own skills and development areas. It offers an excellent opportunity to create future‑proofed services and solutions that embrace latest innovations in digital technology and the chance to mentor the next generation of talent within our business.

• Chartered Status (CEng) with a recognised Professional Institution
• An understanding of conventional and innovative water and/or wastewater treatment technologies
• Track record of engineering technical leadership
• Significant experience in development and delivery of feasibility and outline design solutions within the UK water sector
• Ability to support bids, fee proposals or offers of service
• Ability to check and review technical deliverables, calculations and reports
• Strong communication skills with experience in effective collaboration across internal multi‑disciplinary teams as well as client teams
• Desire to take a leading role with client engagement
• Ability to travel to client offices and sites as required

• Track record in building teams and capability of junior staff
• Understanding of key water sector wastewater treatment and sustainability needs
• Understanding of drivers for wastewater treatment investment in England and Wales
• Excellent technical report writing skills using concise English

Mott Mac Donald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome…