Design Manager - Energy

Job Description

What will you be doing?

ALTEN UK is seeking a proactive and collaborative Contractor Design Manager to support major infrastructure and energy projects, including high-integrity environments such as nuclear, energy, and regulated sectors. In this key role, you will coordinate and integrate multi-disciplinary design activities, ensuring alignment between contractor, consultants, and the wider project team. You will support the safe, efficient, and on-time delivery of projects through strategic design management and effective stakeholder engagement.

Your work will play a critical role in de-risking design, enhancing constructability, and improving project performance across cost, programme, and quality metrics.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Coordinate and integrate consultant and contractor design activities in alignment with project strategy, programme, and construction methodology
• Act as a central point of communication, providing a clear and unified voice to design consultants
• Ensure timely delivery of design information by tracking progress against KPIs and supporting consultant performance
• Facilitate constructability and sequencing reviews to ensure buildable and safe design solutions
• Support design compliance with project standards, regulatory frameworks (e.g. CDM, ONR, DNSR), and client governance
• Assist in preparing scopes of service for consultants and specialist packages, ensuring clarity and alignment
• Align consultant resources with project priorities and critical path milestones
• Coordinate pre-construction inputs such as decisions, site data, and contractor resources into the design
• Support the commercial team in contract administration for consultants and sub-consulted design packages
• Assist with payment certification, milestone achievement tracking, and KPI performance reviews
• Manage interface coordination across multiple designers and disciplines, avoiding scope gaps
• Ensure information management processes (CDE uploads, approvals, traceability) are followed
• Identify and manage design change, assessing impact on programme, cost, and risk before implementation
• Collaborate with project teams to flag technical challenges and recommend specialist input when needed

You are...

• Passionate about delivering quality outcomes through coordinated and collaborative project design
• Communicative, proactive, and outcome-driven
• Motivated to work in technically complex, high-value infrastructure programmes
• Comfortable navigating between engineering, project management, commercial, and technical stakeholders

Qualifications

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications Required:

• 5+ years of experience in design management, coordination, or engineering roles in the construction, infrastructure, or energy sector
• Understanding of project lifecycles, construction sequencing, and buildability principles
• Experience in working with design consultants and coordinating multi-disciplinary design inputs
• Familiarity with design and regulatory frameworks (e.g. CDM 2015, nuclear governance, ONR, DNSR)
• Knowledge of document management and Common Data Environment (CDE) processes
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience interfacing across contractor, consultant, and client teams
• Experience aligning design outputs to critical project milestones and tracking performance metrics
• Comfortable facilitating design reviews, workshops, and collaborative planning sessions
• Experience in contract administration for consultant design packages is beneficial

Additional Information

Why join us? 

We foster a community of dually talented individuals who are both entrepreneurs and technology specialists. Our teams embody the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, enabling us to develop solutions most efficiently. 

Our commitment to sustainable growth is unwavering, and we continuously strive for accelerated transformation and continuous improvement. Through ALTEN labs, mentoring programs, internal universities, and more, we are always pushing boundaries and embracing new possibilities. 

We offer incredible opportunities to join inspiring projects in the most innovative companies. 

We prioritise your career development with personalised support plans tailored to your own aspirations. We're here to empower you and help you reach your full potential. 

Join our passionate team and start building tomorrow, today! 

In short you get: 

• A personalised career path and a rewarding management style 
• A chance to work on the most exciting engineering projects and technologies along with Premium Customers
• A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
• A competitive salary
• Private Medical & Travel Insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Cycle-to-work Scheme among many additional benefits
• Social atmosphere, regular gatherings, and team buildings
• Flexible way of working (role dependent)