Senior Design Manager

We're looking for a Senior Design Manager to join our Yorkshire Water Framework team based in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire – office-based with travel to sites as required within the Yorkshire Water region
Hours: 45 hours per week – standard working hours with flexibility available if needed
Contract: Permanent, Full Time

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Design Manager, you'll be part of our AMP8 Core Team, leading and managing the design interfaces for the delivery of major water treatment schemes. This is a key role within Kier's Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks business, working on innovative, sustainable solutions for Yorkshire Water.

What will your day to day look like?

Your day-to-day will include:

• Leading the design coordination for a range of upgrades and new treatment works, ensuring seamless collaboration between civil, MEICA, and process disciplines
• Managing outline and detailed design phases, supporting estimating, Early Contractor Involvement (ECI), and tender activities
• Ensuring regulatory compliance and Principal Designer duties are met and documented
• Overseeing the integration of innovative solutions, including ozone disinfection and reduced-carbon wetland processes, into project designs
• Supporting construction delivery teams to ensure designs are buildable, programme-aligned, and meet quality expectations

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Design Manager is great for you if:

• You have extensive experience in managing complex design interfaces within the water or infrastructure sectors, with a strong understanding of civil, MEICA, and process design
• You're experienced in ECI, tender design, and leading multi-disciplinary design packages
• You're a confident communicator who can collaborate across teams, deliver to programme, and ensure high standards of technical quality and compliance

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkie