Civil/Structural Design Manager

Civil/Structural Design Manager 75k-90k Croydon Are you an experienced structural designer able to take responsibility for complex schemes and act in a Design Manager role? Interested to work in the specialist power industry? This small, well established Croydon based specialist design consultancy are part of a large utilities contractor group. They are looking to expand to around 30 staff in the design office, and are currently looking for a Design Manager to join their team. The team currently stands at 10 staff. You do need to be able to pick up hands on design on occasion, but your main role will be overseeing the Principal Engineers and more junior staff, and managing the design process through. They specialise in structural design for projects in the power industry. These are highly technical, often specialist schemes and involve work on power networks for firms such as SSE. You will be heading a very experienced team where everyone takes responsibility for their own projects. You should be Chartered MIStructE or MICE, with an excellent technical background and project management and people management skills. Experience in the power sector would be highly advantageous. The types of projects will include substation design, battery storage facilities, design of blast resistant buildings, switch houses, GIS buildings, buildings to house transformer cells and designing of specialist steelwork structures and supports underground and inside of tunnels to carry heavy power cables. There are refurbishment and new builds involved. Projects normally involve design in steel and concrete, with some masonry and can range from small up to multi million schemes. The work is interesting and complex, with each project being different. The role will include some travel to sites in London and the South East, for which a pool car is provided. In addition to base salary, there are various social events, trips abroad, CPD, hybrid working, healthcare scheme, life cover, pension and bonus scheme. The company have a high staff retention rate and you will be joining a happy team. Sam Robson 07749 155538 Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business. TPBN1_UKTJ

Created: 2026-02-07