Location
London & South East region (offices in Cambridge, London (Westferry Circus), Basingstoke, Guildford or Southampton)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP are seeking an enthusiastic Design Manager with extensive postgraduate experience in the management and delivery of a range of highway schemes, from complex, multi-disciplinary Design & Build schemes to smaller safety improvement and maintenance schemes. The role is within our high performing team based in London & South East region.

Typical projects delivered by our team include:
- Major infrastructure with utilities and third-party interfaces
- Highway improvement and widening schemes
- Junction and corridor upgrades
- Bridges and structures over/under highways or rail
- Active travel and public realm schemes

You will:
- Drive clear communication across internal teams and external stakeholders, chairing design team meetings and ensuring actions are completed
- Identify and manage design risks
- Support coordination and resolution of technical queries in context of cost and programme and proactively manage change control through clear understanding of scope and design responsibility
- Ensure compliance with relevant standards and legislation, including DMRB, MCHW, TSRGD, Manual for Streets, British Standards and Eurocodes, CDM Regulations 2015, and environmental and planning conditions
- Coordinate design reviews, clash detection, value engineering, and independent checks (e.g. CAT 2 / CAT 3 where required)
- Ensure designs are suitable for construction, maintenance, and operation
- Strengthen project management processes, manage RFIs, technical transmittals and change control, and proactively mitigate risks and delays
- Review design information, quotations, and technical documentation to ensure alignment with scope, budget, and client expectations
- Maintain accurate project records, update delivery programmes, and promote efficiency, innovation, and buildability across all design stages

Experience
- Significant experience managing and leading multi-disciplinary design teams to deliver high quality solutions on time and to budget
- Proven ability to apply the principles of the CDM Regulations to projects to achieve safety during construction, operation and maintenance, ensuring residual risks are captured, managed and communicated throughout the project lifecycle
- Experience of Design & Build or similar contractual arrangements
- Familiarity with NEC form of contract
- Thorough understanding of DMRB, MCHW, and familiarity with TSRGD and Manual for Streets is beneficial
- Experience with major UK clients in a design consultancy environment
- Contract management experience and/or accreditations would be an advantage

About you
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities
- Ability to develop and manage customer and stakeholder relationships through effective listening and influencing skills
- Naturally curious, solution focused and responsive to client problems

Qualifications
- Degree in Civil Engineering or a relevant discipline
- Chartered Membership of a relevant professional body

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.