Mechanical Engineering Design Manager
Turner & Townsend · Glasgow, Scotland ·
Last confirmed by our partners on 16 Oct 2026.
Overview
In this Engineering Design Manager role, you lead design input on multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects, ensuring buildability, compliance, and sustainability. You collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions across civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical and electrical domains. You drive innovative engineering approaches while embedding health, safety and environmental considerations. The position offers exposure to prestigious sectors and a path to strategic influence within a supportive team.
Pay / Benefits
- great place to work
- flexible working environment that respects work-life balance
- equal opportunity employer and inclusive environment
Responsibilities
- Manage contracts with external design consultants and contractors with the Project Manager
- Lead technical assurance, assess constructability, and coordinate design interfaces
- Lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams across consultants and partner companies
- Collaborate with technical, operational, maintenance, and strategic stakeholders and design coordinators
- Liaise with Clients, Engineering Managers, Project Managers, Contractors and Consultants on issues, changes, risks
- Drive development of innovative, practical, and sustainable engineering solutions that meet requirements
- Embed health, safety and environmental considerations into all designs
- Ensure integration across civil, structural, geotechnical, mechanical and electrical functions
- Ensure constructability, maintainability and reliability across the asset lifecycle
Key requirements
- Minimum 5 years experience managing design through full project lifecycle
- Strong understanding of integrated design delivery and consultant performance management
- Knowledge and experience of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and common data environments
- Degree qualified, or equivalent in engineering (Mechanical Engineering or Building Services Engineering)
- Chartered Engineer (Preferred) status with CIBSE, IMechE or similar
- Experience with CAD (AutoCAD or Revit)
- Excellent communication skills for client and staff liaison
- Self-driven and results-oriented with a positive outlook
- People management, time management, and project design management skills
- excellent communication
- self-motivated
- results-oriented
- BIM
- common data environments
- AutoCAD
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