Position: Design Manager Location: Manchester Contract: Contract (outside IR35) or Permanent Shape tomorrow’s water infrastructure while leading a high-performing, multi-disciplinary design team PURPOSE Manage designers and design delivery across multi-disciplinary teams within the water industry ensuring time and quality expectations. Responsibilities • Manage, direct and develop engineers, CAD technicians and graduates • Grow the design team and maintain a positive ethos and attitude within the team • Lead the design process on multidisciplinary water industry projects • Challenge, improve and shape formal processes and procedures for design team and ensure work is undertaken using them • Identify and implement appropriate software packages, and drive the use of BIM and 3D modelling where necessary • Ensure team produce design deliverables that satisfy safety and quality requirements and are fully integrated • Ensure team produce design deliverables within agreed timescales and hours • Ensure team use appropriate standards, best practice and software tools • Ensure project change for design packages is fully recorded • Assist with estimating hours required for design packages Required Qualifications & Experience 10 years’ experience working in the engineering design industry in a regulated sector ideally Water or wastewater projects Graduate or HND Good le...