Engineering Director
United Infrastructure ·
United Infrastructure is a dynamic and rapidly expanding business, focused on delivering critical infrastructure projects, across the utility and social infrastructure sectors. Our team of highly skilled and hardworking specialists deliver innovative solutions to the complex challenges our clients face.
Our company is split into two business areas: Utility Infrastructure – Our team of Utility Infrastructure specialists design, build and maintain critical water, energy (gas), power and telecoms infrastructure, for the UK’s largest network owners and operators.
Social Infrastructure - Our team of Social Infrastructure specialists revitalise homes and communities by carrying out a wide range of work, from retrofit to refurbishment, and maintenance. Inside our Energy business, we’re scaling delivery of complex, multi‑phase energy programmes—hydrogen, CCUS, biomethane, gas pipelines and power assets—and we’re looking for an Engineering Director to lead our Engineering Function, act as Design Authority, and set the bar for safe, sustainable, right‑first‑time delivery.
The UK’s transition demands resilient infrastructure and dependable engineering leadership. You’ll shape our Energy Design Hub and the standards, assurance gates, and culture that underpin it—bringing constructability insight early and maintaining technical excellence through detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover.
Build the function: Establish and mature the Engineering Design Hub—structure, processes, KPIs, tools, and ways of working to support Tier‑1 scale and differentiation. Design Authority set competency frameworks and progression pathways; champion chartership and continuous learning.
Digital predictable programme control; reduced rework and variation exposure. Capability growth: A motivated team with clear competencies, mentoring and chartership pathways—ready to scale with our pipeline. Client trust: Positive technical acceptance, clean interfaces, and repeat business driven by dependable engineering leadership. Chartered Engineer (CEng) (Mechanical, Civil/Structural, EC