Top Design Jobs in Manchester

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

Performs National Grid BP141 design assurance for electricity transmission and distribution projects. Reviews designs for compliance with technical specifications, engineering standards, safety and regulatory requirements; coordinates with National Grid, DNOs, contractors and multidisciplinary teams; identifies and mitigates design risks; supports DCAAR acceptance; and maintains assurance documentation. The role may cover HV plant, substation civil, protection and control, relay settings, HV cable, overhead lines or commissioning.

Supports digital design projects for healthcare clients, including interactive conference content, HTML emails, web banners, social media graphics, websites, and web applications. The intern applies UI/UX principles, contributes from concept through production, and collaborates with the Creative team. Responsibilities include design, maintenance, and testing of digital products while developing professional skills through training and mentoring.

Leads a team of PES-based control system design engineers for nuclear infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include reviewing requirements, assigning work, planning estimates, producing and checking detailed design packages, reporting progress, supporting design assurance, and providing technical support during procurement, integration, installation, and commissioning. Requires extensive control system design experience, knowledge of engineering standards, and familiarity with PES and servo drive interfaces.

Lead multidisciplinary teams delivering complex hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data centre projects across Europe. Oversee design phases from site due diligence and campus planning through construction documentation, ensuring quality, compliance, risk mitigation, and timely delivery. Manage client relationships, presentations, permitting coordination, commercial governance, and collaboration across regional delivery teams. Regular travel across UK&I and European offices is required.

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.

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 high-voltage substations and associated equipment for major UK and Ireland energy infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include producing primary plant layouts, developing equipment specifications, providing engineering input, supporting Owners’ Engineer activities, contributing to renewable energy projects, preparing technical reports, and supporting design reviews and construction witnessing. The role serves utility, developer, data center, and renewable energy clients across multiple projects.

Lead HV substation design for major UK and Ireland energy infrastructure projects. Responsibilities include primary plant layouts, FEED and detailed design, cable route development, HV equipment specifications, tender evaluation, design assurance, supplier audits, FAT attendance, commissioning support, client engagement, and mentoring junior engineers. The role also contributes to project development, multidisciplinary project management, and delivery for transmission utilities, hyperscalers, and data center operators.

Lead AI-enabled instructional and digital learning design across the firm. Establish responsible generative AI practices, design standards, governance, and quality controls; oversee interactive digital learning builds; advise senior stakeholders; evaluate learner and business impact; coach colleagues; and manage external partners. The role requires advanced authoring-tool expertise, strong stakeholder influence, AI governance knowledge, and the ability to deliver scalable, engaging learning experiences.

Serve as the technical focal point for control and instrumentation design for process plant systems. Develop control philosophies, functional design specifications, cause-and-effect matrices, logic diagrams, alarm schedules, instrument indexes, and related documentation. Translate operational requirements into safe, compliant automation designs; define control strategies, setpoints, tolerances, and calibration requirements; support P&IDs, human factors, HAZOPs, design reviews, and technical assurance. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage technical risks, and mentor junior engineers in a regulated nuclear environment.

Lead and deliver overhead line electrification designs for Network Rail and railway or metro projects. Responsibilities include acting as Contractors Responsible Engineer and lead designer, producing technical drawings and calculations, ensuring compliance with standards and safe-by-design principles, managing teams, budgets, and schedules, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams and contractors, preparing fee proposals, responding to construction queries, and potentially undertaking Network Rail Project Engineer duties.

Designs and delivers mechanical solutions for water and wastewater infrastructure, including pumping stations, treatment works, screening, chemical dosing, and sludge handling systems. Responsibilities include concept and detailed design, calculations, drawings, technical reports, cost estimates, client liaison, engineering supervision, project planning, bid support, site surveys, and construction support. The role requires AutoCAD proficiency, pump selection experience, water treatment knowledge, practical site-based engineering skills, and a full driving licence.

Supports mechanical design across water and wastewater projects, from feasibility and optioneering through detailed design and construction support. Responsibilities include producing calculations, drawings, technical reports, design packages, and tender submissions; conducting site surveys and inspections; liaising with site teams; supporting project planning, estimating, and contract preparation; and ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and CDM requirements.

Design electrical and instrumentation systems for water and wastewater infrastructure projects from feasibility through detailed design. Responsibilities include site surveys, engineering calculations, drawings, technical reports, specifications, feasibility studies, tender support, cost estimation, project administration, and compliance with safety and environmental standards. The role also supports senior engineers and supervises junior team members.

Leads electrical, instrumentation, control, and automation designs for water and wastewater infrastructure projects. Owns work from feasibility and optioneering through detailed design and construction support, prepares and approves technical documentation, conducts site surveys, manages design risks, supports estimating and planning, and provides technical leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder guidance across multidisciplinary teams.

Leads multidisciplinary design teams and complex water and wastewater infrastructure programmes, managing resources, governance, stakeholders, risks, quality, budgets, and delivery schedules. Provides technical leadership, design assurance, regulatory compliance, and commercial oversight under NEC contracts and AMP programmes. Coordinates external design partners, mentors engineering staff, supports capability development, and promotes safe, efficient, and high-quality project delivery.

Design highways and civil infrastructure while supporting business development, recruiting, and management of secondees across the North West. The role combines technical design, feasibility, supervision, client-facing work, team management, and commercial development. Candidates should have civil or structural engineering design experience, strong communication skills, commercial awareness, and an interest in developing toward chartership and broader management responsibilities.

Design traffic and civil engineering projects while developing into an Area Manager. Responsibilities include business development, recruiting and managing secondees, supporting the management team, maintaining client relationships, and contributing technical expertise across design, feasibility, supervision, and project management activities. The role offers continued technical work alongside management development and chartership progression.

Lead highway design work for Local Authority schemes, from feasibility through detailed design. Manage design reviews, apply DMRB and traffic sign regulations, liaise with clients, report on projects, estimate costs, and assess deliverability. The role requires civil engineering qualifications or relevant industry experience, with support toward Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status. Permanent and temporary positions are available.

Lead Arbor’s centralized product design function, setting design strategy, standards, systems, and ways of working across its B2B SaaS product portfolio. Manage and mentor designers, integrate design practices across acquired products, advocate for design at leadership level, and drive usability through research and testing. Partner with product and engineering leaders on product strategy, UX/UI improvements, design systems, and AI-augmented workflows.

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.

Owns product design quality and direction across consumer products and brands. The role involves hands-on work reviewing and improving critical user journeys, interfaces, design systems, and complex financial and AI workflows. The Head of Design partners closely with product and engineering from concept through production, establishes design standards, evaluates shipped experiences, and recruits senior product, UI, and brand designers.

Design high-impact motion graphics, animated ads, Lottie and Rive animations, and interactive motion projects for global brands. Collaborate with account teams across time zones, manage multiple projects on time and budget, support creative leads, explore motion innovations and AI-enhanced tools, and help evolve Superside's motion capabilities.

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.