Assistant Design Manager, Rail Stations

Assistant Design Manager, Rail Stations at WSP

Join WSP: a global engineering and professional services firm devoted to delivering transformative projects that benefit communities worldwide.

As Assistant Design Manager, you will lead multidisciplinary station design and assurance submissions, coordinate design requirements, and support front‑line technical proposals. Your role will ensure design outputs meet WSP’s quality standards and client expectations while driving efficient delivery across complex rail stations. To learn more about our Rail business explore

• Deliver multidisciplinary station design and assurance submissions.
• Identify and document design scope, requirements, processes, and outputs.
• Plan and forecast design activities.
• Prepare technical proposals for projects.
• Allocate design, coordination, integration, interface and assurance responsibilities in line with competence‑management processes.
• Coordinate design requirements, processes and outputs, including work by internal suppliers, external sub‑consultants, surveyors and stakeholder requirements.

• Working toward chartership status with a relevant engineering institution.
• Experience of design management on rail station projects, including overall multidisciplinary design leadership on at least one project.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams in a consultancy environment.
• Experience of technical coordination, interface management and integration.
• Experience preparing and submitting design assurance packages.
• Rail industry experience.

WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms, with 72,800 passionate people and a strong focus on innovation, integrity and inclusion. Our UK office brings you access to international expertise and a culture of collaboration.

Work‑life balance, inclusive culture, health & wellbeing benefits, flexible and part‑time arrangements, and a career development focus including mentoring and chartership support.

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. Please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.