Design Lead

2 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Mott MacDonald Full time

Mott MacDonald Bentley are looking for a Design Lead (Civils) to deliver a wide range of water and wastewater treatment projects on our United Utilities Framework. We have an ever-growing order book and are looking to add new talent to our friendly team.
- Would you like:

- The opportunity to deliver a programme of work that will directly improve the lives of hundreds or thousands of customers?
- The ability to influence and improve how projects are delivered?
- A career path with a clear progression in both Technical or Management disciplines.
- An agile working arrangement that provides you flexibility whilst ensuring effective project delivery.

As a Design Lead, you will be accountable for the design of a programme of water and wastewater infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects through the outline and detailed design, construction, commissioning, and handover. You will be responsible for building a project team comprised of electrical, mechanical, civil, and process designers who will support your Project Leaders. You will identify and mitigate resource constraints to enable project teams to complete the design to programme and within budget.
- Your responsibilities:

- Embed a positive and honest environment for your team where everyone is challenged and encouraged to reach their potential.
- Analyse project performance and identify risks that may impact project delivery. Develop mitigation to avoid negative impacts or exploit opportunities.
- Understand and administer the contract when change occurs. You will be responsible for maintaining the contract programme during design and handover.
- Challenge the engineering solutions and delivery effectiveness of your team to ensure we always offer United Utilities the best value solutions. We aim to be their trusted partner of choice.
- Provide direction and oversight of project controls and ensure your teams understand and comply with quality, programme, and cost requirements.

**What you can offer**:

- Chartered or Incorporated member of the ICE with experience in water or wastewater, non-infrastructure and infrastructure design
- Outline and detailed design experience of water or wastewater projects and knowledge of the Designer or Principal Designer duties under CDM 2015.

**What we can offer**:
At Mott MacDonald Bentley you will be offered a competitive salary which is commensurate based on your experience. Our core benefits include:
- Pension matched up to 7%
- Competitive annual leave and the option to purchase additional annual leave
- Life assurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- Annual professional institution subscription costs
- Flexible benefits to suit you, including cycle to work scheme and interest free season ticket loans

**Job Profile**

**Other information**
This is a Mott MacDonald Bentley role, employed by Mott MacDonald.
- Mott MacDonald Bentley is a joint venture business, established in 1999 between civil engineering contractor JN Bentley and global management consultancy, Mott MacDonald.
- Mott MacDonald Bentley offers fully integrated design and build services to its clients, combining the contracting expertise of JN Bentley and the design specialisms of Mott MacDonald.
- This role is employed by Mott MacDonald but will involve working across the joint venture business, both with Mott MacDonald and JN Bentley colleagues.
- About Mott MacDonald
- Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management and development consultancy.
- Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
- A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.
- Our values: progress, respect, integrity, drive, excellence.
- We believe that because we care about what we do, we do things better.
- We know that our people are our most valuable asset, so we are dedicated to investing in them, through our comprehensive training and development schemes, exposure to the wider design and build business and endless opportunities.
- We are committed to creating a workplace where our people are safe, have a voice, can reach their full potential, and everyone shares in the rewards.
- We guarantee what we do makes things better for the communities in which we work. Working with us, you will have the opportunity to contribute to projects that will protect local communities from flooding, preserve the UK’s canal systems, and help secure water supplies for future generations.
- Equality, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion-
- Agile working
- We are committed to providing a flexible and agile working environment that supports both our employees and the needs of the business.

**Job Ref**
- 68704BR

**Recruiter Contact**

**Country**
- United Kingdom

**Region/State**
- England - North West

**Discipline**
- Water

**Sector**
- Water

**Website Region*


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