Design Manager

Job Type Permanent / Full Time
Area Cambridgeshire
Sector Design Manager, Office and Commercial
Closing Date 27th February 2025
Job ref 1575917

Job Description

FJA are working with a national leader in the Water Industry who are looking to recruit a Design Manager
The client are looking to strengthen our engineering team a the Peterborough office with hybrid working available. You will Lead an engineering team to deliver design solutions for a programme of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and sewage treatment works storm overflows, within the west of the Anglian Water region.
 
Design Manager Benefits:
 

  • A competitive salary
  • Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent)
  • Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)
  • 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
  • Contribution Pension scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Health Insurance
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • And many more benefits including – cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc

 
The Design Manager will be responsible for:
 

  • Be part of the @one alliance – one of the most successful, award-winning and progressive water sector capital delivery organisations
  • Deliver a programme of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and sewage treatment works storm overflows, with an approximate value of £100M
  • Work collaboratively with the Water Recycling West Treatment Design Managers to develop holistic catchment (systems) based solutions. which prioritise addressing catchment / network issues and consider the impacts to the receiving water recycling treatment works
  • Manage the Water Recycling (sewage) West Storm Overflow design team in delivering all catchment and pipeline related solutions within this programme area
  • Lead the development, implementation and management of Engineering Project Plans to control scope, programme, cost, risk and resources
  • Using the principle of best for task, assess the complexity of your portfolio projects and assign suitably competent engineering resources to projects
  • Collaborate with the Lead Discipline Engineers and BIM Programme Manager to implement design quality procedures and monitor adherence to achieve a right first-time philosophy
  • Supplier and subcontractor design input – support the engagement, selection, contracting, management and integration of designs for your portfolio
  • End users – support your team to produce acceptable designs with consideration of health & safety, the environment, construction, procurement, the customer, and Anglian Water Operations
  • Lead and conduct portfolio engineering design meetings and hold team members to account

 
Design Manager requirements:

  • An engineering, or equivalent, degree.
  • Experience of wastewater (sewage) assets, including the design of gravity sewers; foul rising mains; pumping station; attenuation tanks and the variety of associated construction techniques.
  • Preferably chartered, or working towards, chartered status.
  • Preferable experience of water-sector assets and capital projects.

 
If you are interested in the above Design Manager role, please click the ‘apply now’ button.
 
Due to the high volume of applications, we receive we are not always able to reply to all applications. If you haven’t heard back from us within 2 weeks, then please accept that your application has been unsuccessful for the role we currently have advertised.   Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications, and abilities to perform the duties of the job.   Finlay Jude Associates Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. For more opportunities please take a look at our website.