Project Design Manager
Location: Remote (UK-wide, with travel as required)
Salary: Up to £90,000 + benefits
Turner Lovell is recruiting a Project Design Manager for a leading UK energy infrastructure contractor delivering Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and renewable energy connection projects across the UK.
This role focuses on end-to-end design ownership across BESS projects, including Civils, HV Cables, and Protection & Control. You will be responsible for coordinating how all design components interact, ensuring solutions are technically compliant, constructable, and aligned with client and regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and lead multidisciplinary design for BESS and grid connection projects from feasibility through detailed design and construction support.
- Manage and coordinate electrical and civil design teams, including internal designers and external consultants.
- Ensure full compliance with DNO standards, industry codes, CDM 2015, and internal design governance requirements.
- Act as the primary technical interface with clients, confidently challenging requirements where necessary to achieve safe, efficient, and compliant solutions.
- Oversee design integration across civils, cabling, and protection & control to ensure all elements work cohesively.
- Manage design programme, workload prioritisation, and technical risk across multiple projects.
- Provide technical support during construction, responding to site queries and resolving design issues as required.
Required Qualifications and Experience:
- Degree in Electrical or Civil Engineering (or equivalent).
- Chartered Engineer status or working towards chartership.
- Proven experience leading design for BESS or renewable energy grid connection projects.
- Strong background in substation-based infrastructure projects within the regulated DNO environment (11kV-132kV).
- Demonstrated ability to manage and coordinate multidisciplinary design teams.
- Strong technical authority with the confidence to engage and challenge clients under delivery pressure.
- Ability to understand and manage the interaction between civils, cables, and protection & control disciplines.
This is an excellent opportunity to take a senior design leadership role within a growing renewables-focused business, with a strong pipeline of BESS and grid connection projects and long-term career progression.
For more information, please contact Anusha Gopalan at anusha.gopalan@turnerlovell.com or 020 4602 7660.