Design Manager - Water

Overview

Location/s: Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, London, Cambridge, Reading, Brighton, Leeds & Exeter; UK

Recruiter contact: Nicola Coyle

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making a societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are varied.

As a proudly employee-owned business, we invest in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be brilliant.

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 ensures safe water supplies for future generations, prevents urban flooding, and improves 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.

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 clean water programme of works. You would 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, within budget and to drive technical excellence.

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

The role is expected to progress and evolve in line with the framework requirements and the candidate’s 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.

Essential

• Chartered Status (CEng) with a recognised Professional Institution
• An understanding of conventional and innovative water 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

Desirable

• Track record in building teams and capability of junior staff
• Understanding of key water sector 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 follows changes to the Skilled Worker route implemented by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

We believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces well-being,…