Design Manager - (Water Civil Engineering)

Job Description

What if you could shape a career as unique as you?

At WSP, you can always find opportunities to grow and do what matters to you. Make the most of our global reach to discover new challenges and chances to work with diverse, talented individuals who will help you expand your horizons.

We have a number of opportunities for Design Managers to join our Water team supporting key projects in our Asset Design discipline.

A little more about your role

As a Design Manager at WSP you will lead and manage design projects within the Water sector. Working alongside the Project Director and Project Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing engineering design work and ensuring compliance with best practices and UK regulations.

What makes this role exciting

• Lead on significant, technically challenging projects and influence how design is delivered across disciplines.
• Be the central connector between clients, technical specialists, and project teams.
• Shape better delivery processes, championing Safety by Design, CDM compliance, and efficient ways of working.
• Grow as a leader, representing WSP in client meetings and guiding multiple work packages with confidence.
• Join a supportive, collaborative environment where quality and improvement are always at the forefront.

What your day‑to‑day looks like

• Manage the design process, resources, timelines, budgets and risks across mid‑scale and complex projects.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental and quality standards, including UK CDM regulations.
• Lead client and design team meetings, providing clear progress reporting and resolving design issues.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary inputs, ensuring integration, quality, and timely delivery.
• Handle change control, RFIs, design transmittals, and project communications to reduce risk.
• Maintain and update design programmes and ensure deliverables align with scope and client requirements.
• Support Senior Project Leads with package management and team coordination.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate

• MEng/BEng/BSc or HND/HNC in an Engineering, Environmental or numerate science related subject.
• A member of an appropriate professional institute (Chartered or working towards).
• Experience in an infrastructure programme and project delivery environment, with experience of delivering complex projects.
• Significant experience in Project and contract management including knowledge of H&S standards and regulations.

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria and we will accommodate reasonable workplace adjustments in support of the application.

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