
Senior Design Manager (Senior Project Engineer)
Job Description
The role:
As a Senior Design Manager, you’ll be responsible for leading the design development of multiple high-value, complex capital projects within United Utilities Enterprise Programme. You’ll provide technical and strategic leadership to ensure designs are safe, efficient, innovative, and fully aligned with regulatory, operational, and sustainability goals. You’ll also be a key advisor to senior stakeholders and play a crucial role in shaping our approach to design governance and delivery during AMP8 and beyond.
What you’ll do:
- People management in a project environment, where formal line management does not exist.
- Being the champion for the project within the business and from time to time representing the business externally
- Positively support the transition of new ways of working across the community
- Building and maintaining relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
- As required, to deputise for Regional Delivery Manager (RDM)
- Develop and maintaining proactive empathetic enduring relationships and creating a healthy, inclusive and diverse environment for their team to flourish.
- Responsible for delivering the project or portfolio through the asset lifecycle in accordance with approved processes and systems.
- Responsible for writing technical reports and acting as the single point of contact for technical assurance throughout the lifecycle
- Managing multi-disciplinary teams across the matrix organisation to Delivery to time, cost, carbon and quality drivers.
- Carry out project reviews, recommend / take action as appropriate and report on a monthly basis

