Join Stantec's dynamic Water team in Leeds and take a leading role in delivering essential water infrastructure projects. We're seeking an experienced and proactive Engineering and Design Lead to drive design excellence, consistency, and collaboration across a major water programme.
If you thrive on setting technical strategy, managing design resources, and fostering a collaborative design environment, this is an excellent opportunity to make a significant impact.
As the Engineering and Design Lead, you will be crucial in managing the design function, ensuring high-quality, efficient, and consistent delivery.
Your core responsibilities include developing and owning the technical strategy (Design Management Plan), leading the Design Hub, and maintaining all essential documentation, including the design change log and design risk register.
You will serve as the primary design representative in weekly operations and internal meetings, facilitating fortnightly Engineering Meetings and producing knowledge-sharing updates.
A key part of the role is managing the design resource plan, overseeing specialist leads (Modelling/Geotech), and driving continuous improvement through reviewing QA audits. Finally, you will provide crucial programme reporting on blue/green solutions, OPEX, and Carbon, and lead the writing of project case studies and awards submissions.
What You'll Bring
1. Proven experience in leading and managing design teams ideally within the regulated water sector.
2. A strong background in engineering design with a focus on consistency, quality, and process improvement.
3. Excellent collaboration and communication skills, capable of influencing senior stakeholders and facilitating multi-disciplinary meetings.
4. Familiarity with the water industry standards and delivery mechanisms.
5. Demonstrated ability to develop and implement technical strategies and design management plans.
Why Stantec?
We're a place where the best and brightest come to build on a platform of high performance, delivering sustainable and innovative solutions for our clients. We offer a supportive, flexible, and inclusive work environment with opportunities for professional growth and career development.
Apply now to shape the future of water design in Leeds!
About Stantec
The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.
Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.
Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.
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