Senior Design Manager - Bioresources
HybridCoventry, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Act as Design Manager for bioresources and sludge treatment projects across programme delivery phases, leading coordination between client, contractors, designers, supply chain partners, and equipment suppliers. Manage design interfaces to ensure alignment of technical solutions, programme requirements, and project objectives while facilitating multidisciplinary design reviews and technical workshops. Ensure design deliverables meet programme milestones, quality standards, and governance requirements, supporting risk identification and resolution throughout the design lifecycle. Provide clear communication of design progress, issues, and risks to client teams and delivery partners, participating in client meetings to offer technical input. Review engineering solutions for safety, operability, and value for money, ensuring compliance with industry standards and client requirements. Monitor design progress against programme requirements, support change control activities, and contribute to schedule development and delivery forecasting.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience delivering water, wastewater, bioresources or sludge management projects
- Strong understanding of design management principles within complex infrastructure programmes
- Demonstrable experience coordinating multidisciplinary design teams and external stakeholders
- Excellent communication and relationship management skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced programme environment
- Strong understanding of risk management, governance and project delivery processes
- Experience working in a client-facing environment with water utilities, contractors or engineering consultancies
- Collaborative and proactive approach to problem solving
- Degree qualified in Engineering or a related discipline
- Chartered Engineer status with a relevant professional institution
- Typically 7-12 years' relevant industry experience
- Proven background in: Wastewater treatment
- Proven background in: Bioresources
- Proven background in: Sludge treatment and management
- Proven background in: Biosolids processing
- Experience managing design interfaces across multiple organisations
- Strong understanding of UK water industry regulations, standards and delivery models
- Full right to work in the UK
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working directly with UK water utilities
- AMP7 and/or AMP8 programme experience
- Experience of design management within alliance, framework or contractor-led delivery environments
- Knowledge of commissioning, operational readiness and handover processes
- Project management qualifications such as APM, PRINCE2 or PMP
- Working knowledge of NEC contracts and collaborative delivery models
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