Mechanical Engineering Design Manager

Overview

As an Engineering Design Manager you will lead design input on multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects, ensuring buildability, compliance, and sustainability. You’ll work closely with clients and the Project Manager to steer design quality across concept to delivery. You’ll coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage interfaces, and embed health, safety, and environmental considerations. This role offers the opportunity to shape high-impact projects across data centres, manufacturing, rail, and more within a supportive, delivery-focused team.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working environment
• healthy work-life balance
• inclusive employment
• equal opportunity employer

Responsibilities

• Manage the contract with external design consultants and contractors in collaboration with the Project Manager
• Lead technical assurance, review constructability, and guide design processes across interfaces
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams of engineers from consultants and partners
• Collaborate with stakeholders and design coordinators including clients, Engineering Managers, and Contractors
• Drive development of innovative, practical, and sustainable engineering solutions
• Embed health, safety and environmental considerations into design solutions
• Ensure integration across civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical and electrical disciplines
• Ensure constructability, maintainability and reliability across the asset lifecycle

Key requirements

• Minimum 5 years' experience managing design through full project lifecycle
• Strong understanding of integrated design delivery and consultant performance management
• Knowledge of BIM and common data environments
• Degree in engineering (Mechanical or Building Services)
• Chartered Engineer (preferred) with CIBSE or IMechE
• Experience with CAD (AutoCAD or Revit)
• Excellent communication with clients and staff
• Self-driven, results-oriented with good time and project design management skills

• strong communication
• collaboration and teamwork
• problem-solving mindset
• BIM
• common data environments
• AutoCAD

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