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AtkinsRéalis

Senior Design Manager

AtkinsRéalis

. Successful delivery of the project to agreed targets, e.g.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeExeter • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Successful delivery of the project to agreed targets, e.g. programme, budget and quality
  • Identifying and agreeing project objectives with the Technical Lead and Project Management, developing a strategy for achieving these
  • Identifying, escalating and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to AtkinsRéalis to the Project Director (PD) at the earliest opportunity
  • Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team, including providing regular feedback to all team members
  • Ensuring safety is prioritised throughout delivery
  • Facilitating communication, co-ordination and information flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners
  • Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans
  • Closing out the project on completion, updating market information, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Chartered Engineer/Architect or equivalent with experience managing design commissions on large infrastructure projects
  • Experience across a range of construction projects
  • Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbal and written
  • Ability to manage and motivate a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities
  • Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, particularly NEC3/NEC4
  • Experienced at preparing Scope Definition papers, Project Execution Plans, Risk Registers, Change Control Logs and Client & Stakeholder Management plans
  • Experience of managing design projects to time, cost and quality objectives and familiar with programming and earned value techniques
  • Familiar with BIM and has an understanding of 3D modelling tools for design and coordination purposes and the associated Information attributes that can be assigned and managed within the Model
  • Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive salaries
  • Employee rewards
  • Brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices
  • Opportunities for training and professional development
  • Hybrid working culture
  • Flexible holiday allowances

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementconstruction contract managementBIM3D modelingrisk managementscope definitionproject execution planningchange controlearned value techniquesdesign project management
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillsorganizational skillscommunication skillsleadershipteam motivationcoachingclient relationship managementfeedback provisionproblem-solvingcollaboration
Certifications
Chartered EngineerChartered Architect