Engineering Manager

Project Engineering Manager
Ready to lead major infrastructure and engineering projects from concept through to delivery?
Our client is seeking an experienced Project Engineering Manager to provide technical leadership across complex infrastructure projects, ensuring engineering excellence, safety, compliance, and successful project delivery. This role will lead multidisciplinary engineering teams, manage design assurance, and act as a key interface between project delivery teams, clients, and supply chain partners.
What Youll Be Doing

• Leading the engineering function across projects, ensuring engineering processes, standards, and procedures are consistently applied.
• Providing engineering assurance throughout design, construction, commissioning, and handover stages.
• Acting as the Principal Designer under CDM regulations and ensuring statutory design obligations are fulfilled.
• Managing and developing multidisciplinary engineering teams, including Design Managers, Responsible Engineers, Designers, and Temporary Works professionals.
• Supporting feasibility studies, option selection, risk reduction initiatives, and value engineering opportunities.
• Ensuring health, safety, quality, environmental, and sustainability considerations are embedded throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• Providing technical input into bids, tenders, and client proposals.
• Driving innovation, continuous improvement, and the adoption of modern engineering methods and technologies.
• Maintaining strong relationships with clients, consultants, stakeholders, and supply chain partners.
• Supporting recruitment, mentoring, development, and professional progression of engineering personnel.

What Were Looking For

• Degree qualified in Civil Engineering or a related infrastructure engineering discipline.
• Incorporated Engineer (IEng) status or equivalent professional accreditation, with Chartered status advantageous.
• Significant experience leading engineering delivery on major infrastructure, construction, or nuclear projects.
• Previous experience working for a Tier 1 or Tier 2 contractor in a similar engineering leadership position.
• Strong understanding of NEC contracts, design management, construction methodologies, and engineering assurance processes.
• Knowledge of CDM regulations and Principal Designer responsibilities.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary engineering and design teams.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance technical excellence, commercial objectives, and programme requirements.

Why Join?

• Opportunity to influence the delivery of major, high-profile infrastructure projects.
• Lead experienced engineering and design teams on technically challenging programmes.
• Play a key role in innovation, engineering assurance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Long-term career development with opportunities to mentor and develop future engineering talent.
• Be part of a collaborative environment focused on safety, quality, sustainability, and engineering excellence.