Project Design Manager (@one Alliance)

Description

• Champion sustainable design by embedding low-carbon thinking, nature-based solutions, and whole-life value considerations.
• Engage with suppliers, partners, and stakeholders to review and integrate third-party design inputs effectively.
• Ensure all design work meets CDM and health & safety requirements, producing high-quality outputs that meet end-user and operational needs.
• Work collaboratively with project managers, environmental and planning specialists, procurement, and construction teams to deliver projects efficiently and affordably.
• Provide clear leadership to your project design team – mentoring, developing, and
• Drive innovation and digital design, supporting the move towards fully attributed 3D and BIM-enabled models.
• Water Non-Infrastructure Portfolio - PDM to lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams to deliver clean water non- infrastructure design (treatment works; pumping stations; ground water abstraction). Significant programmes of work include nitrate removal; PFAS removal and upgrades to potable water treatment works.
• Collaborate with engineering discipline leads to define design approaches, set technical standards, and ensure design integration across civil, mechanical, electrical, and process disciplines.
• Lead the design and technical delivery of clean water and water recycling projects, across both infrastructure (pipelines, pumping stations) and non-infrastructure (treatment and storage) schemes.
• Develop Engineering Project Plans encompassing design scope, programme, cost, risk, and resource planning.

Requirements

• Experience of working within a design and build or collaborative project delivery environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to translate complex technical information clearly.
• Technical understanding of clean water or water recycling systems, pipelines, or treatment processes.
• Strong design management experience, ideally within the water or environmental infrastructure sectors.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver high-quality, sustainable design outcomes.
• A degree in engineering or equivalent qualification, preferably chartered or working towards chartered status.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance