Design Delivery Manager

Description

The Opportunity

OCU Design are seeking an experienced Design Delivery Manager to lead a team of Design Project Managers across a varied portfolio of complex energy and infrastructure projects. The role will typically oversee design delivery across areas such as battery energy storage systems, substations, and grid connections for developments including data centres, solar farms, and other major infrastructure schemes.### What You'll Do

As Design Delivery Manager, you will provide leadership, direction, and support to a group of around five Design Project Managers, ensuring design delivery is planned, coordinated, and controlled across multiple projects. You will work closely with the wider design leadership team to help embed improved ways of working, strengthen delivery governance, and support positive change across the design function. You will be responsible for driving consistency in design management, supporting project teams, resolving key delivery issues, and ensuring design outputs meet programme, quality, safety, and commercial requirements.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys leading people, improving delivery performance, and helping to shape the governance, behaviours, and controls needed to deliver consistently across a diverse portfolio of technically complex projects.

Key Responsibilities* Lead, manage, and support a team of approximately five Design Project Managers across a portfolio of projects.

• Oversee design delivery across areas such as BESS, substations, and grid connections for data centre, solar, and other infrastructure developments.


• Ensure design programmes, deliverables, interfaces, risks, and key milestones are effectively managed across the portfolio.


• Provide direction, coaching, and escalation support to DPMs, helping them resolve delivery challenges and maintain project momentum.


• Work closely with clients, consultants, project teams, commercial teams, supply chain partners, and internal engineering functions.


• Promote safe, buildable, compliant, and commercially robust design solutions in line with project and business requirements.


• Support the design leadership team in implementing process improvements, governance controls, and consistent delivery standards across the DPM community.


• Monitor portfolio performance, manage key risks and change, and provide clear reporting to senior project and business leadership to support improved delivery governance and decision\-making.

What You'll Bring

We are looking for someone with strong design delivery leadership, technical awareness, and the ability to manage people and performance across multiple projects.

Essential* A degree in Electrical, Civil, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline

• Strong experience in design management, design delivery, or multidisciplinary infrastructure projects


• Experience leading or line\-managing design managers, project managers, engineers, or similar delivery professionals


• Proven ability to manage design across complex project portfolios with multiple stakeholders, interfaces, and competing priorities


• A good understanding of CDM 2015 roles, duties, and responsibilities

Desirable* Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status, or capable of progressing towards professional accreditation

• Experience with BESS, HV/MV substations, grid connections, data centres, solar, or related energy infrastructure environments


• Experience working across client, consultant, contractor, and supply chain interfaces


• Exposure to temporary works, construction delivery, and operational handover requirements

To succeed in this role, you will be:* A confident people leader who can set direction, support others, and build a strong delivery culture

• Able to influence senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and drive improvement where needed


• Highly organised, delivery\-focused, and comfortable managing competing priorities across a project portfolio


• A clear communicator with sound judgement, strong decision\-making ability, and a practical approach to problem solving

Working Arrangements* Primarily home\-based, with regular visits to project sites

• Travel to project locations and company offices will be required


• Full UK Driving licence

What We Offer

At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.

Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.

As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long\-term career within OCU Group.### About OCU Group

At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure \- we help power modern life.

As one of the UK’s fastest\-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five\-fold to a £1\.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.

Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.

We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.

At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it.

Our Culture \& Values

At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported.

As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long\-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role.

To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing recruitment@ocugroup.com.

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