Mechanical Engineering Design Manager

Location: Glasgow

Company Description Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
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Job Description Are you passionate about creating smarter, safer, and more efficient design solutions? Are you ready to work on critical national infrastructure with a fantastic team? Then this could be the opportunity you've been waiting for. The Real Estate team are undergoing an exciting period of growth, due to increased client demand we are looking for experienced and aspiring Engineering Design Managers to join an experienced and supportive team.

Our Design Managers are more than just technical leads — they're strategic thinkers, collaborators, and problem solvers. You'll work closely with our clients ensuring that the final project is fit for purpose. Your focus: ensuring designs are buildable, compliant, innovative and efficient. You will be leading design input on multi-disciplinary projects, from early concepts through to delivery. Working across a range of prestigious infrastructure projects, stemming from sectors including data centres, advanced manufacturing, defence, heavy industrial, rail, avaiation and through all main real estate and industrial sectors we are confident you will diversify your project experience with us.

Our clients are at the fore-front of industry leading change and we are keen to speak to like-minded individuals at various stages within their career to see what Turner & Townsend can offer you. Design Manager

Roles and Responsibilities Work with the Project Manager to manage the agreed contract with external design consultants and contractors, ensuring that duties are discharged under the contract and if not, that appropriate action is taken. To lead technical assurance, review constructability, and manage design interfaces – not to accept, approve, or amend designs but to manage, evaluate and guide the design the process.

Management of multi-disciplinary teams of Engineers from consultants, and partner companies in the production of project solutions to the required level of design. Collaboration with other technical, operational, maintenance, and strategic stakeholders and design coordinators. Liaison with Clients, Engineering Managers, Project Managers, Contractors and Consultants concerning project issues, scope changes, risks, etc. Drive the development of innovative, practical and sustainable engineering solutions that meet client, operational and regulatory requirements.

Embed health, safety and environmental considerations into all engineering and design solutions

Ensure effective integration across civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical and Electrical functions.

Ensure constructability, maintainability and reliability across the whole asset lifecycle.

Qualifications Minimum 5 years' experience managing design through the full project lifecycle - ideally across a range of…