Design Management Engineer
PR/080593
Posted: 14/01/2026
- £40000 - £65000 per annum
- Scotland, Highland, Inverness
- Permanent
Orion Group is working with a hugely successful and established Civil Engineering Contractor seeking a Design Manager to join there team based in Northern Scotland, supporting the design management of major infrastructure projects across there Power & Transmission, renewable energy, highways, and marine portfolio.
As the Design Manager, you will take ownership of the design process on high-profile civil engineering schemes, ensuring designs are coordinated, buildable and delivered safely, on time and to budget and help shape complex civil engineering projects from concept to construction
You will work closely with project teams, designers and stakeholders, influencing decisions that directly impact successful project delivery.
What you will be doing
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
As the Design Manager, you will take ownership of the design process on high-profile civil engineering schemes, ensuring designs are coordinated, buildable and delivered safely, on time and to budget and help shape complex civil engineering projects from concept to construction
You will work closely with project teams, designers and stakeholders, influencing decisions that directly impact successful project delivery.
What you will be doing
- coordinate the design process across multidisciplinary civil engineering projects, giving you real influence over technical and commercial outcomes
- Manage external designers and consultants, ensuring designs meet contractual, regulatory and client requirements
- Drive buildability and value engineering, helping project teams deliver efficient, practical solutions on site
- Oversee design risk management, ensuring CDM and safety requirements are embedded from early stages
- Control design programmes and deliverables, giving clarity and confidence to construction teams
- Act as the key design interface between clients, site teams and supply chain partners
- Support tender and pre-construction teams, shaping winning technical solutions for future work
- Have proven experience as a Design Manager Or Design Managemen Engineer within civil engineering or major infrastructure projects
- Understand temporary and permanent works design and how design decisions affect construction
- Are confident coordinating consultants, subcontractors and internal teams
- Have strong knowledge of UK standards, CDM regulations and NEC Contracts and design management processes
- Experience or working within the Scottish Civil Engineering sector with a contractor
- Communicate clearly and can challenge designs constructively to explain why something works better
- Hold a degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline (Chartered or working towards Chartership is advantageous)
- The opportunity to work on high-value, technically challenging civil engineering projects
- A role where your technical judgement genuinely influences delivery, not just paperwork
- Clear career progression within a respected, well-established contractor
- Competitive salary and package, including:
- Company car or car allowance
- Private healthcare
- Pension contribution
- Annual bonus linked to project and company performance
- Support for professional development and Chartership
- A collaborative, experienced project environment where design is valued
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
John MacRitchie
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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