Engineering Manager - Major Projects (Buildings & Infrastructure)

Job Description

Overview

 

Do you enjoy bringing multidisciplinary teams together to deliver complex engineering solutions? Are you motivated by providing technical leadership, building strong stakeholder relationships, and guiding projects from concept through to successful delivery?

Join us as an Engineering Manager within our Major Projects division, where you'll help deliver some of the UK's and world's most complex and high-profile EPC and EPCM projects across infrastructure, transportation, energy, nuclear, industrial, and defence sectors. You'll play a key role in leading engineering teams, ensuring technical excellence, and supporting the successful delivery of major capital programmes from early development through to commissioning and handover.

At AtkinsRéalis, we recognise that successful engineering leadership comes from a diverse range of experiences, perspectives, and leadership styles. We are committed to creating an environment where you can develop your career, contribute to meaningful projects, and help shape solutions that make a lasting impact.

 

Your role

 

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams throughout the project lifecycle, from feasibility and FEED through detailed design, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Provide engineering leadership across civil, structural, buildings, utilities, and infrastructure packages, ensuring effective integration between disciplines.
• Oversee engineering delivery to achieve programme, budget, quality, safety, and technical performance objectives.
• Coordinate design reviews, engineering assurance activities, and governance processes to support robust project delivery.
• Build strong relationships with engineering teams, contractors, suppliers, clients, and regulatory stakeholders, ensuring effective collaboration and communication.
• Review and support key engineering deliverables, technical submissions, construction methodologies, and temporary works proposals.
• Identify and manage technical risks and opportunities while supporting procurement, contractor engagement, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture while supporting the development, coaching, and growth of engineering teams.

About you

We take a strengths-based approach because we know successful leaders bring a variety of experiences, perspectives, and ways of working. You may find many of the following resonate with you:

• You have experience leading multidisciplinary engineering delivery on major capital projects within complex and technically challenging environments.
• You enjoy bringing people together, creating alignment across teams, and building strong working relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• You have a strong understanding of engineering assurance, technical governance, change management, and quality processes.
• You are confident managing engineering programmes, resources, budgets, schedules, and performance to achieve successful project outcomes.
• You communicate clearly and effectively, influencing decisions and building credibility with clients, contractors, regulators, and project teams.
• You take a proactive and solutions-focused approach to managing technical risks, resolving challenges, and driving continuous improvement.
• You enjoy developing others through coaching, mentoring, and creating an environment where people can thrive and perform at their best.
• You bring curiosity, resilience, sound engineering judgement, and a passion for delivering complex projects that create lasting value.

 

Rewards & benefits

 

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

Rewards and benefits – Careers at AtkinsRéalis

 

About AtkinsRéalis

 

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Find out more.

 

Additional information

 

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.