Principal Design Director

Job Description

Overview

The Principal Design Director (FOS) will lead the design management and technical delivery of large-scale industrial developments, ensuring design excellence, coordination across multidisciplinary teams, and successful project execution from concept through commissioning.

Your role

• Lead and oversee the overall design strategy, technical governance, and project delivery.
• Manage multidisciplinary engineering and design teams across civil, structural, architectural, MEP, process, and specialist disciplines.
• Coordinate design interfaces between clients, consultants, contractors, and project stakeholders.
• Drive design reviews, constructability assessments, and value engineering initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with project requirements, statutory regulations, quality standards, and safety requirements.
• Support project planning, execution strategies, and risk management activities.
• Provide technical leadership during construction and commissioning phases.
• Mentor and develop engineering and design teams.

About you

• Degree in Engineering, Architecture, or any related discipline.
• Minimum 15-20 years of experience in design, engineering, and project delivery.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on major capital projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and client-facing capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience in EPC/EPCM project environments.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, industrial manufacturing, chemical processing, semiconductor, or data center projects will be a significant advantage.
• Professional registration or chartered status preferred.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Relocation assistance.
• Transportation & housing allowances (available for remote work locations).
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

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.

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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.

About Us

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn.