Design Manager (Substations - Distribution)
Location: Suffolk (hybrid working)
Salary: up to £95,000 (+ benefits)
Position: Permanent
Turner Lovell are partnering with a leading UK utility infrastructure contractor seeking a Design Manager to lead multi-project electrical substation design delivery across DNO/ICP frameworks (primarily up to 132kV, with occasional interface to transmission).
This position is ideal for an electrical design leader who thrives on managing and interfacing with multidisciplinary teams, balancing technical quality with commercial performance, and ensuring designs are safe, compliant, and buildable.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Lead end-to-end design delivery across a portfolio of distribution substation projects, using both in-house and external design resources.
2. Set, monitor, and report on design targets around safety, quality, cost, and programme, ensuring obligations to both the business and the client are met.
3. Take commercial ownership of design workstreams by tracking budgets, forecasts, and change, and feeding into wider project and framework performance.
4. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to produce fully integrated design solutions that support safe construction and operation
5. Oversee and technically steer external design partners, including reviewing, ch...