Civil / Structural Engineering Design Manager

Edinburgh Source: WhatJobs
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Overview

As an Engineering Design Manager, you guide multidisciplinary design from concept to delivery, ensuring buildability, compliance, and sustainability. You’ll serve as a strategic design lead within the Real Estate team, collaborating with clients and cross-functional stakeholders to shape high-impact infrastructure projects. You drive innovative solutions that meet regulatory and operational needs while embedding health, safety, and environmental considerations. This role offers exposure to flagship sectors and an opportunity to influence project outcomes at scale.

Pay / Benefits

  • flexible working environment
  • health and well-being emphasis
  • equal opportunity employer
  • inclusive environment
  • professional development
  • supportive team culture

Responsibilities

  • Lead design input on multi-disciplinary projects from concept to delivery
  • Manage external design consultants and contractors under contract terms
  • Oversee technical assurance, constructability reviews, and design interfaces
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams of engineers and partner companies
  • Liaise with clients, managers, project teams, and contractors on issues, scope changes, and risks
  • Drive development of innovative, practical, and sustainable engineering solutions
  • Embed health, safety and environmental considerations in designs
  • Ensure integration across civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical and electrical
  • Ensure constructability, maintainability and reliability across asset lifecycle

Key requirements

  • Minimum 5 years' experience managing design through full lifecycle
  • Strong understanding of integrated design delivery and consultant performance
  • Knowledge and experience with Building Information Modelling (BIM) and common data environments
  • Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering
  • Chartered Engineer status with ICE, IStructE or similar (preferred)
  • Strong communication with clients and staff
  • Self-driven, results-oriented
  • People, time, and project design management skills
  • Experience with CAD (AutoCAD or Revit)
  • strong communication
  • collaboration
  • problem-solving
  • BIM and common data environments
  • AutoCAD
  • Revit

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