About the one Alliance The Anglian Water one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of nine partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water s capital investment programme. We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we ve ever delivered before. We ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression. With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer s expectations will come under greater scrutiny. We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen? About Sweco Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future. Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable. We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future. To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week. To ensure suitable designs, resources and engineering outputs are achieved for our schemes we re looking for a Technical Managers to lead our Infrastructure and Non-Infrastructure teams. What will you be doing as our new Technical Manager? You will be responsible for creating and developing value-driven solutions that align with our capital investment programme outcomes and effectively manage the delivery of project designs. You will lead and nurture a dynamic project design team to deliver high-quality outcomes. Pioneer new methodologies focusing on outcome-driven solutions, carbon reduction, and embracing digital innovations and expand professional networks through collaborations with internal and external stakeholders within the one Alliance. Key Accountabilities: Design Management Lead and manage engineering design delivery for assigned projects. Develop and oversee Engineering Project Plans encompassing scope, schedule, cost, risk, and resources. Collaborate with engineering discipline leads to ensure optimal design methodologies and outputs. Implement design quality procedures to ensure right-first-time philosophy adherence. Manage supplier and subcontractor design input, ensuring integration and alignment with project goals. Produce designs prioritizing health & safety, environmental considerations, construction feasibility, and stakeholder needs. Project Delivery Work collaboratively with other project functions to deliver outcomes efficiently. Seek opportunities to enhance affordability and value throughout the design process. Support project programmes to achieve milestones and drive efficiencies. Develop sustainable designs contributing to carbon reduction and natural capital enhancement. Contribute to risk management and value-driven outcomes. Health & Safety Ensure compliance with Construction Design & Management (CDM) Regulations, managing design-related health and safety risks. Identify and address health, safety, and welfare issues within the team. People/Team Development Provide clear leadership to the project design team, fostering a positive and inclusive environment. Manage multi-disciplinary teams, including performance management and mentoring. Identify competency gaps and support recruitment and development initiatives. Transformation Cultivate a culture of experimentation, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Support initiatives to reduce carbon footprint and embrace digital technologies for enhanced project delivery. A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours. To join the team, you ll hold a degree, HNC or HND in Engineering and have experience in technical role and be comfortable managing designs and multi-disciplinary projects. Able to inspire and lead a team, you ll be customer focussed in all the activities you undertake. With a strong appreciation of how collaboration can truly unlock complex projects, you ll be able to assess unique situations and draw upon your technical expertise to make decisive, yet safety conscious, decisions to keep projects on track. Always operating with integrity and accountability, you ll be able to build rapport and trust amongst your stakeholder and establish yourself and the team across the Alliance. If you are looking for the next step in your career, please apply today OneAlliance vision A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to: Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance. OneAlliance Values To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we: Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring The Anglian Water one Alliance. Nine partners, endless opportunities. Let s transform society together at Sweco. Equality, Diversity & Inclusion It s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone. Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK. We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role. If I have a disability, can I get help (e.g. reasonable adjustments ) with the application process? If you re an applicant with a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process or are limited in the ability or unable to use the online application system and need an alternative method for applying, please contact GB_Function-HR-Resourcingsweco.co.uk for assistance. In order to address your request the following information is needed: Name The best method for contacting you (Phone or email) The position title Requisition/vacancy number Upon receipt of this information, we ll respond to you promptly to obtain more information about your request. Please note: we reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date. Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity. We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those hard to fill roles. We have defined processes for recruitment applications and it is company policy not to accept speculative CVs. Any speculative CVs received into the business (whether to a manager or member of the resourcing team) will become the property of Sweco and the agency will not be eligible for an introductory fee. Our Preferred Supplier List was reviewed in November 2024 and we are not looking to add any additional agencies. We ll be reviewing the PSL again at the end of 2025 and non-compliance with the above statements could be detrimental to you having the opportunity to be included. Our Talent Community for experienced professionals is a great way to keep up to date with our latest news, insights, future vacancies, as well as gaining access to exclusive events hosted by our experts. To learn more Join Our Talent Community - Sweco United Kingdom