Top Design Jobs in Manchester

The Senior Research Partner at Maze collaborates with teams to integrate user research into product development, leading customer engagements and providing best practices in UX Research.

The Project Design Authority leads technical compliance for bids or projects, engages with customers, analyzes requirements, and ensures solution effectiveness while managing technical risks and project milestones.

Lead design of commercially competitive warehouse and transport solutions for tender responses. Analyse tender data, model resource and financial impacts, coordinate bids with operations and finance, prepare tender documentation and presentations, and support implementation of new contracts while advising on automation opportunities.

Lead adaptation of generic Balance of Plant designs into site-specific, regulator-ready solutions. Provide multidisciplinary engineering leadership, manage configuration control, design maturity and supplier packages, produce regulatory submissions, engage technical authorities, and coach a small design team while ensuring E3S compliance and regulatory alignment.

Senior technical leader for civil and structural engineering of SMR projects, responsible for leading 75+ engineers, delivering design through lifecycle, ensuring regulatory compliance, driving integration with other disciplines, and supporting procurement, safety cases, and stakeholder engagement.

Design safety‑critical pipework components for a small modular reactor, ensuring compliance with ASME/EN/PED codes. Produce substantiation, specifications, calculations, and drawings; review materials and supplier documentation; support audits, FMEA/ALARP assessments, and manufacture/installation interfaces. Provide technical oversight, mentoring, and peer review to uplift team capability.

Lead and deliver digital design across web, social, motion, video and interactive formats. Own digital standards, processes and templates, drive AI-enabled design adoption, collaborate with brand, marketing and web teams, ensure consistency, scalability, accessibility and on-time delivery.

As a Solution Design Engineer, you will create scalable technical solutions, translate requirements into designs, integrate AI technologies, and govern architectural standards within Agile teams.

Lead human-centered design initiatives to drive innovation at Barclays, ensuring customer needs are met while balancing business aims and regulatory requirements. Oversee design outputs, manage budgets, and implement agile practices. Conduct customer research and promote a customer-centric culture across the organization.

The Electrical Design Engineer will ensure compliance with electrical standards, support production and sales teams, design CAD drawings, and contribute to cost-saving initiatives.

Design and integrate mechanical structures for power modules and packages (housings, substrates, interconnects, cooling). Create 3D CAD models and drawings, ensure assembly-process compatibility (sintering, soldering, wire/clip bonding, potting), collaborate with process engineers and suppliers, support prototyping/testing, and drive DFM/DFR and documentation. Role focuses on SiC/GaN solutions for traction and industrial applications; travel ~25%.

Deliver EC&I design tasks for infrastructure projects: develop and review electrical, instrumentation and control drawings, perform cable sizing and fault calculations, prepare design dossiers, support site surveys, HAZOPs and commissioning, and ensure compliance with industry standards and safety requirements.

Lead HV substation design for hyperscale data centre projects, managing technical delivery, compliance, client relations, and mentoring junior engineers.

Own and design global finance solution architecture for Oracle Cloud Fusion and surrounding systems. Drive solution documentation, integrations, standardization, implementation support, master data management, upgrades, and change processes while collaborating with Global Process Owners, AMS, and partners.

Perform National Grid BP141 design assurance reviews across transmission and distribution projects, assess compliance with BP188 and technical standards, produce DCAARs, coordinate stakeholders, identify risks and mitigation, maintain design records, and support timely, safe delivery of substation, cable, OHL and protection/control designs.

Lead and manage design delivery for major gas infrastructure projects, act as Designated Individual for Temporary Works (BS 5975), produce and review 2D/3D designs, perform structural assessments and FEA, ensure design governance and compliance, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, support tender reviews and value engineering, and drive innovation toward hydrogen-ready, lower-carbon solutions.

Lead and manage all technical and design aspects of residential and infrastructure projects, coordinating consultants and subcontractors to ensure compliant, buildable designs are delivered on time and within budget. Oversee design programmes, approvals, document control, site coordination, change control, handovers and fulfil CDM/Building Regulations principal design responsibilities.

Lead and manage all technical and design aspects of residential and infrastructure projects, coordinating external consultants, ensuring regulatory and company compliance, preparing design programmes, managing design approvals, undertaking site reviews, and delivering coordinated information for construction, handover and certification within time and budget.

Lead design, specification, and delivery of HV/EHV cable systems from concept to completion. Perform routing, burial risk, thermal/EMC/mechanical modelling, ratings and installation methodology; coordinate multidisciplinary teams; provide client technical assurance; manage procurement, construction, commissioning, inspections and vendor oversight; mentor engineers and support business development.

Design and specify quantum optical system functionality, build predictive architectural performance models, evaluate implementation feasibility, and collaborate with photonics, systems, and architecture teams to produce data-driven optical system specifications.

Sell and grow adoption of Autodesk Forma Building Design by identifying opportunities, leading discovery, designing pilots/POCs, building stakeholder relationships, and providing market feedback to inform product and go-to-market strategy. Collaborate with sales, technical, product, marketing, and customer success teams to drive early adoption and workflow transformation.

Lead technical discovery and demos of Autodesk Forma for architects and BIM/VDC teams. Qualify technical fit with sales, design pilots and proofs of concept, translate workflows into solution narratives, capture product feedback, and support customers through evaluation and early adoption across AEC accounts.

The Product Design Lead will shape GenAI-enabled user experiences for enterprise applications, manage design direction, lead collaborative efforts, mentor designers, and ensure designs are trustworthy and innovative.

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.

The EMEA Design Manager will oversee design delivery for data center projects, manage multidisciplinary teams, ensure compliance with standards, and report on project metrics.