Senior Design Manager (Major Projects)

Here within the @one Alliance, we are a collaborative organisation made up of our eight partner companies (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO) and our extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water's capital investment programme.
We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we've ever offered before. We'll embark on a new project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.
We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We're looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.
With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer's expectations will come under greater scrutiny.
To ensure suitable designs, resources and engineering outputs are achieved for designated projects, we are looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our team.
What you will be doing as our new Senior Design Manager?
As our Senior Design Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading the Place-Based Thinking programme, ensuring the delivery of innovative and sustainable capital investment projects that align with Anglian Water's commitment to environmental and social prosperity. You'll lead a talented engineering team, driving collaboration, embracing new technologies, and implementing nature-based solutions to address the unique challenges of the East of England., Lead the design delivery for the Place-Based Thinking programme, ensuring high-quality engineering outputs that meet project standards.
Develop and manage the engineering resource strategy, allocating resources effectively to meet project demands.
Fulfil the role of CDM Principal Designer, prioritizing health, safety, and compliance in all design activities.
Foster collaboration within the leadership team and with key stakeholders, driving the successful delivery of business objectives.
Champion innovation and sustainability, integrating nature-based solutions and new digital technologies into the programme.

To join our team, you'll need a degree in Engineering, with Chartered Engineer status being highly desirable. You will bring extensive experience in leading and managing multi-disciplinary design teams within a design and build environment, particularly in the delivery of complex capital projects.
With a strong focus on health and safety, you'll be adept at fulfilling the responsibilities of a CDM Principal Designer, ensuring safety is at the forefront of all design activities. You'll excel in fostering collaboration, both within your team and with external stakeholders, driving innovative and sustainable solutions that align with place-based thinking. Your leadership will inspire continuous improvement, and your strategic approach will help shape the future of water recycling in the East of England.
If you're ready to take on a leadership role that makes a real impact, we encourage you to apply today!

Barhale is one of the largest privately-owned civil engineering and infrastructure specialists with 40 years of experience working UK-wide across the water, transport, built environment and energy sectors. Founded by our Chairman, Dennis Curran in 1980, the group was originally set up as a specialist tunnelling contractor. While we retain our tunnelling roots, repeated success in several construction industry sectors has enabled us to expand our skillset and become one of the largest privately-owned infrastructure specialists in the UK.
What we do
We provide design, construction, and maintenance services to the following sectors.

Water
Transport
Energy
Built Environment

We also possess a range of specialist skills to support our civil engineering and infrastructure activities including.

Tunnelling
MEICA capabilities
In-house design
A steel-fabrication and supply subsidiary (BCS Group)

Who we are?
Barhale operates as a tier-1 partner for blue-chip, regulated, and private clients. We work as part of large frameworks, joint ventures, and alliances and on individual projects developing long-standing relationships based on Trust, Integrity, and Pride.
Our People
We employ a direct workforce of over 1,000 employees nationwide. We recognise that our business is only as good as the people we employ, which is why we value them so highly and invest in regular training and development, utilising our dedicated training facility in Walsall.
Our commitment to career progression, personal development, innovation, collaborative working, diversity and Inclusion, health and wellbeing and work-life balance is what makes us a Gold Investors in People Company.

As well as offering a competitive salary, remuneration for this role includes a range of benefits.

5% Company pension contribution
Life Assurance at 2 x notional salary
Single person's private medical cover
Permanent Health Cover
Company Profit Share Scheme
Company car/van or car allowance (Dependent on position)
Career Development and ongoing training
Staff Referral Scheme
25 days annual leave with additional loyalty days (Full-Time equivalent)
Volunteering Scheme
Environmental and Social Value initiatives