The Opportunity
OCU Design are seeking an experienced Design Project Manager to lead design delivery across complex infrastructure projects. This role is ideal for someone with strong technical awareness, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to coordinate high-quality design output from concept through to construction.
As Design Project Manager, you will lead and coordinate design delivery across complex infrastructure projects, ensuring information is issued on time, to the right quality, and in a way that supports safe and efficient construction. You will work closely with project, engineering, commercial, and site teams, acting as the key link between stakeholders and helping to drive delivery from concept through to completion.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys leading multidisciplinary coordination, managing design risk, and working at the centre of project delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of design across assigned projects
- Manage design programmes, deliverables, interfaces, and key milestones
- Work closely with clients, consultants, supply chain partners, and internal teams
- Support safe, buildable, and compliant design solutions in line with project and business requirements
- Monitor progress, manage change, and provide clear reporting to project leadership
We are looking for someone with a strong blend of technical understanding, delivery focus, and stakeholder management capability. You will ideally bring:
Essential
- A degree in Electrical, Civil, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline
- Strong experience in design engineering, design management, or multidisciplinary infrastructure projects
- Proven ability to manage design in complex project environments with multiple stakeholders and interfaces
- A good understanding of CDM 2015 roles, duties, and responsibilities
Desirable
- Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or capable of progressing towards professional accreditation
- Experience with HV/MV cable systems, substations, or related infrastructure environments
- Exposure to temporary works and construction delivery
To succeed in this role, you will be:
- A confident and collaborative leader who can coordinate across multiple teams
- Comfortable challenging, influencing, and driving improvement where needed
- Organised, delivery-focused, and able to manage competing priorities
- A clear communicator with sound judgement and decision-making ability
Working Arrangements
- Primarily home-based, with regular visits to project sites
- Travel to project locations and company offices will be required
- A full UK driving licence will be required
If you are looking for a role where you can shape design delivery, influence project outcomes, and work with a wide range of stakeholders across major infrastructure projects, we would welcome your application.
At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.
Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.
As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long-term career within OCU Group.
At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure - we help power modern life.
As one of the UK’s fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.
Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.
Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.
We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.
At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it.
Our Culture & Values
At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role.
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing
[email protected].
