Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Energy we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.
We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.
This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.
What will you be doing?
We're looking for a Design Manager to join our Design team in our Annesley, Nottingham office on a Hybrid basis.
You'll be leading and coordinating multidisciplinary design teams (civil, MEICA, process, geotechnical and others), ensuring designs meet scope, quality, time and budget requirements as well as providing day to day direction, priorisitation and oversign of design tasks and project deliverables.
You'll be required to travel to Scotland once a month to better manage client expectations and help the operations team to understand any design related issues.
- Ensure the team has the appropriate tools, processes and support required to deliver right first time design outputs.
- Ensure all designs comply with relevant technical standards, client specifications, and UK legislation, including CDM 2015.
- Embed rigorous quality assurance, design checking and verification processes.
- Validate that operational, constructability and safety considerations are incorporated into all design outputs.
Develop, implement and continuously improve design processes, workflows and governance frameworks.
Oversee design schedules, resource forecasting, change control, and the integration of design activity into wider project programmes.
Support risk identification, mitigation planning, and compliance with internal management systems.
Act as the primary technical interface for clients and external stakeholders, managing expectations, technical queries and approvals.
Lead or participate in design coordination meetings, progress reviews, workshop sessions and multidisciplinary interfaces.
Ensure strong working relationships with delivery teams, commercial teams and project management colleagues.
Mentor, coach and develop design engineers, graduates and technicians, supporting professional growth.
Create a collaborative, accountable and positive team culture that promotes learning and high performance.
Support recruitment, succession planning, performance management and capability development across the design function.
To carry out any other duties as and when necessary to meet the varying demands of the business and satisfy customer needs.
What you’ll bring:
- Have 15 years or more experience in OHL Design.
- To maintain an up-to-date working knowledge of National Grid, SPEN, SSE, BSi, ENA and other relevant industry standards, UK legislation and CDM 2015.
- Expert in PLS CADD and Tower software.
- Degree (or equivalent) in Civil or Mechanical engineering.
- Significant experience of leading multidisciplinary engineering design teams.
- Proven track record in delivering complex design projects successfully.
- Experience managing design schedules, risks, resources and change control processes.
- Excellent communication, leadership and coordination capability.
- Commercial awareness related to project finances and design decision‑making.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) or equivalent professional status.
- Experience in major programme leadership, strategic planning or technical governance roles.
- Experience in developing technical strategy, innovation programmes, or centre‑of‑excellence models.
What’s in it for you?
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- Private health care and health care cash plan
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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