Top Design Jobs in Manchester

Processes engineered-solution orders, creates general arrangement drawings and bills of materials, and supports production and sales teams. Develops bespoke customer solutions, reviews technical approvals, conducts safety walk-throughs, and prepares compliance reports. Leads value-added engineering, continuous improvement, CAD data management, and drawing and BOM accuracy initiatives. Requires collaboration with technical, sales, production, and global engineering teams, including mentoring junior staff and supporting project sign-off.

Manages civil and structural design engineering for bespoke precast concrete solutions supporting energy, water, wastewater, and infrastructure projects. The role combines business transformation with technical design support, improving processes, systems, data, and ways of working. Responsibilities include interpreting customer requirements, developing manufacturable and commercially viable engineering solutions, collaborating across design, manufacturing, commercial, operations, and project teams, and supporting project delivery and stakeholder relationships.

Oversee the end-to-end design management of large-scale data centre projects, coordinating design packages, stakeholders, vendors, BIM teams, technical submittals, permits, quality assurance, temporary works, and construction-phase support. The role reviews design and construction documentation, manages RFIs and risk reviews, ensures compliance with client standards, resolves design issues, and maintains accurate as-built drawings and BIM models through project completion.

Designs and implements learning and development programmes for bank employees and leaders. Responsibilities include creating classroom, digital, and blended training; managing onboarding; analysing programme metrics; developing coaching, mentoring, and train-the-trainer initiatives; and supporting talent pipelines and succession planning. The role requires stakeholder collaboration, project management, engaging learning experiences, and the ability to translate business needs into effective development solutions.

Leads HV substation design for major UK and Ireland energy infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include primary plant layouts, cable route development, HV equipment specifications, tender evaluation, design assurance, supplier technical reviews, manufacturing audits, FAT attendance, commissioning support, and fault resolution. The role also provides client engagement, mentorship, and multidisciplinary project leadership across concept, FEED, detailed design, and owner’s engineer activities.

Designs high-voltage substations and associated infrastructure across the UK and Ireland. Responsibilities include producing primary plant layouts, developing equipment specifications, providing engineering input to major grid and renewable-energy projects, serving as an Owner’s Engineer, preparing technical reports, and supporting design reviews and construction activities. The role involves collaboration with utilities, developers, clients, and multidisciplinary project teams.

Designs and supports high-voltage substation and transmission projects across the UK and Ireland. Responsibilities include producing primary plant layouts, developing equipment specifications, providing engineering input for infrastructure and renewable energy projects, supporting Owners’ Engineer assignments, and reviewing designs and construction activities. The role offers mentorship and exposure to projects involving substations, cables, overhead lines, battery storage, solar, hydro, and wind generation.

Leads end-to-end high-voltage substation design from grid connection studies and concept through FEED, detailed design, construction review, and energisation. Responsibilities include technical leadership, client and multidisciplinary coordination, design quality assurance, resourcing, commercial proposals, safety compliance, scope expansion, and mentoring junior engineers. The role supports major UK and Irish transmission, grid upgrade, hyperscaler, data centre, and interconnector projects.

Lead electrical design management across multidisciplinary infrastructure and real estate projects from concept through delivery. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interface management, consultant and contractor coordination, stakeholder engagement, regulatory compliance, and integration of civil, structural, mechanical, geotechnical, and electrical disciplines. The role also emphasizes sustainable, maintainable, reliable, and innovative engineering solutions, team leadership, client liaison, and full lifecycle design delivery.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering design management across infrastructure and real estate projects. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, consultant and contractor coordination, design interface management, stakeholder liaison, and delivery of compliant, sustainable, maintainable solutions throughout the project lifecycle.

Designs fluid systems for nuclear engineering projects, producing 2D CAD drawings, 3D CAD/BIM models, piping layouts, isometrics, material take-offs, and technical documentation. Performs layout optimization and participates in model, design, and technical reviews. Ensures compliance with safety standards, codes, specifications, and quality requirements while coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and suppliers. Supports project delivery within agreed time, budget, and quality targets.

Develop fluid-system designs for nuclear turbine-island projects, producing 2D CAD drawings, 3D CAD/BIM models, piping layouts, isometrics, material take-offs, and design documentation. Optimize layouts, participate in model and design reviews, ensure compliance with safety standards and engineering codes, coordinate with multidisciplinary teams and suppliers, and deliver work within quality, schedule, and budget requirements.

Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, prioritization, governance, and adoption of Barclays’ Blueprint enterprise design system. Partner with product, design, engineering, and platform teams to translate stakeholder needs into measurable backlog items, improve product quality and performance, and drive consistent, accessible, scalable digital experiences across the bank.

Leads a multidisciplinary engineering team delivering site-specific Rolls-Royce SMR power station designs. Responsibilities include integrating site requirements with the generic design, managing engineering scope, budgets, risks and resources, directing systems and component activities, overseeing configuration and requirements management, and engaging customers, regulators and delivery partners across regulated nuclear infrastructure programmes.

Lead technical delivery of site‑specific electrical system design for SMR nuclear plants, ensuring alignment with generic design, regulatory compliance, requirements traceability, verification/validation, and integration across disciplines. Provide technical leadership, manage design changes, support licensing and safety case evidence, act as intelligent customer for suppliers, and mentor engineering team members through procurement, construction, commissioning and operations phases.

Supports the design, development, and continuous improvement of tooling, jigs, fixtures, and associated equipment for aerospace manufacturing, inspection, and testing. Contributes to new product introduction, process optimization, problem-solving, and project delivery while collaborating with manufacturing, design, production, quality, supply chain, and welding teams. Develops expertise in CAD, engineering drawings, aerospace manufacturing standards, and continuous improvement methodologies.

Designs and implements DFT architectures and specifications for ASIC/SoC products. Responsibilities include scan insertion, ATPG pattern development, compression and clock-control insertion, optimizing test coverage and power, and pre- and post-silicon verification and debug. The role also requires gate-level simulation, failure analysis, scripting, and collaboration across product teams.

Lead the strategy and hands-on development of platform-wide design systems, including scalable interaction patterns, UX frameworks, mobile experiences, and AI-driven design-quality tools. Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers to improve design consistency and implementation quality across complex B2B products. Own initiatives from problem identification through prototyping and delivery while maintaining strong visual, interaction, accessibility, and code-adjacent design craft.

Leads the Control and Instrumentation Systems Design and Implementation function for a nuclear SMR programme. Responsibilities include governing physical architectures, system integration, requirements traceability, verification and validation, configuration management, technical assurance, regulatory and licensing support, supplier oversight, and organisational capability development. The role provides strategic and operational leadership for multidisciplinary engineering teams delivering safety-critical systems in a highly regulated nuclear environment.

The Project Design Authority will oversee technical compliance and solution design for projects, ensuring alignment with customer needs and regulations while leading project teams and reviewing risks and opportunities.

As a Test Design Engineer, you will lead the design of test solutions for aerospace and defence systems, ensuring compliance with standards and customer requirements. You will collaborate with stakeholders and integrate testing systems throughout the product lifecycle.

Supports motion design projects across brand identities, digital experiences, campaigns, social content, and film. Creates animation tests, motion studies, and short-form animations; assists with storyboards, visual research, asset preparation, file organization, rendering, and exports. Participates in creative reviews, presents work, and develops designs based on feedback.

Own end-to-end product design across web, native mobile, widgets, and portals. Partner with product and engineering to define problems, prototype, validate, ship, and iterate on solutions. Maintain and evolve Figma design systems, collaborate asynchronously, review implementations, and manage priorities independently. The role requires strong product judgment, research skills, responsive and accessible design knowledge, visual craft, and comfort using AI tools such as Claude.

Create social-first visual content for LinkedIn and other channels, including graphics, infographics, carousels, motion assets, event promotions, newsletters, podcasts, and campaigns. Use generative AI tools to produce visuals, maintain brand consistency, manage multiple briefs and deadlines, coordinate approvals, update content calendars, and analyze performance to improve future content.

Find, qualify, pitch, and close clients seeking web design, website development, e-commerce, or digital product services. Responsibilities include outreach through LinkedIn, cold email, calls, and professional networks; lead follow-up; discovery call coordination; and deal closing with support from the technical team. Compensation is commission-based, with flexibility to work remotely and potential progression to a base retainer plus commission.