Design Manager

AECOM London, England Oct 21, 2025

Type Contract
Pay Not listed
Work Hybrid

Design Manager focuses on leading : drive technical delivery of wastewater and water infrastructure.

What the role involves

  • Leading : Drive technical delivery of wastewater and water infrastructure.
  • Treatment projects, managing multi-disciplinary technical teams to deliver value added solutions to client challenges throughout the design lifecycle.
  • Managing : Oversee key packages of work from conception to handover, interfacing with AECOM teams, clients and suppliers to create a seamless technical solution.
  • Collaborate : Work closely with clients and AECOM counterparts to ensure stakeholder buy in to solutions, also contributing to AECOM’s wider technical capability and innovative app.
  • Develop: Perform line manager duties for several staff.
  • Support the development of junior team members, managing their input to projects and mentoring them.

Skills and requirements

  • Act as a Technical Lead in at least one discipline in addition to coordinating other disciplines.
  • A degree or equivalent in a related engineering subject (e.g. civil, electrical, mechanical) and/or equivalent experience.
  • Hands on experience, designing complex wastewater treatment solutions.
  • Chartered or Incorporated with a relevant institution e.g. ICE, CIWEM or working towards it.

Confirmed role details

  • Join our dynamic and multidisciplinary Water team as a Design Manager in our rapidly growing South East offices, as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.
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