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Design Manager - Major Projects (@one Alliance)

Salary: Competitive
Location: Peterborough
Contract Type: Full Time Permanent
Closing Date: 27/09/2026 23:59

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Binnies an RSK Group Company is looking for a Design Manager to join us as part of our @one Alliance. 

Job Title: Design Manager 

Location: Hybrid – Peterborough (We ask candidates within the Anglian Water region to be in the office 3 days per week. If you are based outside the region, we’re happy to discuss a suitable hybrid arrangement.)

🎁 Benefits

At Binnies, we recognise and reward our people. Our benefits include:

  • 🌟 9-day working fortnight
  • 💷 Competitive pension scheme
  • 🌴 33 days annual leave
  • 🤝 One paid volunteering day per year
  • 👶 Enhanced parental leave
  • 🩺 Private medical cover
  • 💰 Annual bonus (subject to company and individual performance)

Join the award-winning @one Alliance, a partnership delivering a £9bn investment programme to protect water resources and support sustainable growth across the East of England—one of the UK’s most water-stressed regions.

The Role


We’re looking for a Design Manager to lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team (15–20 people) delivering a £110m portfolio of wastewater treatment projects. Working across multiple catchments, you’ll drive solutions focused on phosphorus removal, storm overflow reduction, and enabling future growth—using a holistic, place-based approach.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead design delivery across a portfolio of complex wastewater projects

  • Manage engineering plans covering scope, programme, cost, risk and resources

  • Collaborate with internal teams, suppliers and stakeholders to deliver outcomes

  • Drive affordability, sustainability and low-carbon design solutions

  • Ensure compliance with CDM regulations and champion health & safety

  • Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing, multi-disciplinary team

  • Promote innovation, standardisation and digital engineering (e.g. 3D modelling)

About You

  • Degree in Engineering (or equivalent); Chartered or working towards

  • Experience leading engineering teams and delivering design on capital projects

  • Knowledge of CDM regulations and design responsibilities

  • Wastewater or utilities experience desirable

  • Strong leadership, collaboration and problem-solving skills

  • Passion for sustainability, innovation and continuous improvement

Why Join Us?
Be part of a collaborative alliance delivering industry-leading, environmentally focused infrastructure. You’ll play a key role in shaping resilient water systems while developing your career in a supportive, forward-thinking environment.

 

 

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We develop intelligent solutions using our award-winning integrated planning and design approach to deliver functional infrastructure and lasting environmental and social legacies. This is backed by a culture that has stayed true since our foundation over 100 years ago. We create new possibilities for humanity through our innovative approach to delivery.

Together with our clients, we are always striving to find a smarter way to deliver projects. From providing low carbon, sustainable and resilient water solutions, flood alleviation and environment services, to connecting people with insights and data. Our business exists to improve the quality of life for our local communities today and for generations to come.

Binnies is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.

At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.

Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.

If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?

Environment

We create sustainable critical infrastructure across the whole asset life cycle to meet the net zero challenge. We integrate sustainability into everything we do, utilising digital innovation to create value. We de-risk projects through collaborative engagement and holistic thinking which builds inclusive wealth for our clients, stakeholders and communities.

Water

We are engaged in every aspect of the water industry, helping clients efficiently and effectively collect, store, move and treat water and wastewater; plan and manage watersheds; harness the energy embedded in the treatment and movement of water and enhance sustainability. We incorporate leading-edge digital transformation to create more resilient and reliable solutions using data analytics to provide powerful insights.

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