Mechanical Engineering Design Manager

Overview

As Engineering Design Manager, you lead multidisciplinary design input for critical infrastructure projects, ensuring buildability, compliance, and sustainability. You’ll work with clients and project teams to steer design from concept to delivery, balancing technical integrity with practical constraints. This role blends strategic thinking with hands-on supervision to shape safe, efficient systems. You’ll join a growth-minded Real Estate team delivering high-impact projects across sectors.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working environment
• focus on work-life balance
• equal opportunity employer

Responsibilities

• Manage contracts with external design consultants and contractors to ensure duties are met
• Lead technical assurance, assess constructability, and guide design interfaces
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary engineering teams from consultants and partners
• Collaborate with stakeholders, clients, and project managers on scope, risk, and issues
• Drive innovative, sustainable engineering solutions meeting client, operational, and regulatory needs
• Embed health, safety and environmental considerations into all design work
• Ensure integration across civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical, and electrical disciplines
• Ensure constructability, maintainability, and lifecycle reliability of assets

Key requirements

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

• Effective communication
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Problem-solving orientation
• BIM and common data environments
• AutoCAD
• Revit

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