Design Delivery Manager

Can Be Based From:
Bristol, Warrington, Grangemouth, Annesley, Plymouth

About Us

Galliford Try is one of the UK's most formidable construction businesses with an enviable track record of delivering schemes that strive to provide positive, lasting change for the communities we work in. As a FTSE 250 organisation, we turnover £1.9 billion and employ over 3,500 people across three successful Divisions: Building, Infrastructure and Specialist Services.

As one of the UK's leading contractors, you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the country's most exciting projects, offering long-term stability alongside the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise your career goals. You will be joining diverse, high performing teams with exceptional levels of commitment.

Following a number of strategic acquisitions, we are now the largest Tier 1 contractor operating in the UK Water and Environment sector, with a long term portfolio trading at approximately £500 million per year.

As part of our 2030 Strategy, we have brought together all aspects of Engineering Design under a single Business Unit, which continues to expand to provide in house design capability to our Regional Business Units across the UK.

Purpose of the Role

The Design Delivery Manager (DDM) is a key member of the Engineering Management Team and is directly responsible for the successful delivery of engineering services across the business.

The role holds accountability for time, cost, quality and utilisation of UK wide core engineering resources and has overall responsibility for their outputs, development and growth. This position is pivotal to the achievement of our strategic engineering objectives and includes line management responsibility.

Key Accountabilities

Be accountable for the successful delivery of the engineering service.

Act as a member of both the Engineering Management Team and Senior Operational Team.

Line manage Principal Engineers and Design Managers, with people and resource management as a core focus.

Develop strong peer to peer relationships across the Engineering Management Team.

Provide accurate and timely performance data to the Engineering Operations Manager.

Own and deliver the internal Engineering Service Level Agreement.

Respond to Engineering Service Enquiries raised by delivery teams and ensure Design Cost Estimates are robust and approved.

Ensure change control and risk management processes are implemented and effectively managed.

Act as a key decision maker in assessing internal capability and capacity to deliver design works.

Ensure Technical Governance requirements are met at project level in line with the Service Level Agreement.

Lead the planning and deployment of engineering resources in collaboration with Discipline Managers, identifying future needs and vacancies.

Build strong working relationships with the Environment BU HR team.

Meet or exceed agreed programme and project targets for design cost, time and quality.

Ensure compliance with client, company and industry engineering standards and procedures.

Manage and continuously improve productivity of internal and external engineering resources.

Ensure compliance with GT BMS and all relevant management systems.

Maintain strong relationships with Environment Heads of Engineering to promote best practice, learning and innovation.

Implement Galliford Try's Carbon, Digital, DfMA and Innovation strategies.

Comply with Galliford Try SHE policies, legal requirements and best practice, creating a knowingly safe environment.

Embody and promote Galliford Try's values: Excellence, Passion, Integrity and Collaboration.

About You

Demonstrable experience managing internal design or engineering functions.

Strong leadership capability with experience managing and developing design teams.

Ability to operate and influence at all levels of the organisation.

Commercially aware with a strong understanding of cost, programme and performance management.

Highly analytical with strong critical thinking and problem solving skills.

Comfortable balancing strategic oversight with detailed technical involvement.

Skilled in prioritising and decision making in complex and demanding environments.

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, including presentation at senior levels.

Technical / Professional Expertise

Engineering background with a good understanding of multi disciplinary engineering design.

Design and/or Project Management experience, ideally within the water or environment sector.

Degree in Engineering (MEng, MSc, BEng, BSc) or a relevant construction, project management or STEM related qualification.

Significant experience in planning, progress measurement and change management across all project phases.

Experience implementing digital technologies and advanced applications within construction projects.

Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications.

APM or PMI qualifications are advantageous.

What We Can Offer in Return

With an impressive order book of over £3.9 billion, we are one of the industry's leading principal contractors, offering you the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects while enjoying stability and long term career prospects.

We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of our people through our Be Well programme, providing advice, support and discounts on a range of products and services.

We invest in high quality training at all levels, supported by our Career Paths initiative, helping individuals fulfil their potential and progress their careers.

Our Agile Working programme supports flexibility in when, where and how you work, where appropriate.

We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that, offering a comprehensive range of options alongside a competitive salary, including:

Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with length of service, plus the option to purchase additional leave

A wide range of corporate discounts

Cycle to Work schemes

Save As You Earn share purchase scheme

Private medical scheme options for salaried employees

Employee Assistance Programme with free 24/7 support

Paid annual membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role

About Us

Our purpose is to improve people's lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote best practice and caring for the environment in which we work.

We do this by living our values: Excellence, Passion, Integrity and Collaboration.

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who wish to work full time, reduced hours or flexibly. This will be discussed as part of the recruitment process.

We encourage candidates to let us know of any adjustments we can reasonably make to ensure a positive application experience.

Don't meet every requirement? We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to apply.

As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to candidates with a long term health condition or disability who meet the essential criteria.

A full job description is available upon request.

About the Team

Our Environment Business provides 'source to sea' asset delivery capability across the UK and Scotland working on both Frameworks and Standalone projects. Since AMP3 we have delivered in excess of £2bn assets for clients such as Yorkshire Water, United Utilities, Anglian Water, Thames Water, Southern Water, Welsh Water and Scottish Water. As an established player in the market this a great opportunity to join the team at a time of transformation as we shape ourselves to be fit for delivery in a future digital world. We have recently secured a plethora of places on the AMP7 Frameworks for Yorkshire Water, Southern Water and Thames Water for both Infrastructure and Non Infrastructure projects ranging from £1 40m over the next five years.

Job Info

• Job Identification 2760
• Job Category Engineering
• Posting Date 02/10/2026, 11:24 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day