Laing O'Rourke
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Shape the future of complex infrastructure with Laing O'Rourke
Are you a Mechanical or Electrical Design Manager looking to work on some of the UK's most ambitious and technically challenging projects?
Do you thrive in environments where innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence come together to deliver world-class solutions?
If so, we'd love you to join the Laing O'Rourke MIECA Design Management Talent Community — a network of forward-thinking design leaders who want to push boundaries and deliver real impact.
What We Do
Our MIECA design teams play a central role in delivering complex, high-performance engineering solutions across a wide range of sectors:
- Healthcare – Transforming clinical environments that improve patient outcomes
- Science & Research – Developing cutting-edge laboratories and technical facilities
- Data Centres – Engineering resilient, high-capacity digital infrastructure
- Rail & Aviation – Creating transport systems for the future
- Defence & Prisons – Designing secure, mission-critical environments
- Power & Substations – Energising communities and powering national networks
Whether it's optimising building services, integrating sustainable technologies, or solving intricate engineering challenges, our design managers help make the extraordinary possible.
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Why Join the Community?
By Joining Our Talent Community, You Will
- 💼 Stay connected to upcoming opportunities
- Be the first to hear about new design management roles across our diverse portfolio.
- 🔍 Access insights & innovation
- Stay close to emerging technologies, delivery methods, and engineering best practice across multiple sectors.
- 🌱 Influence the future
- Help shape engineering solutions that are modern, sustainable, and digitally enabled.
👤 Who We're Looking For
We Welcome Interest From Experienced
- Electrical Design Managers
- Mechanical Design Managers
- Building Services Design Leads
- Technical Managers with multidisciplinary M&E backgrounds
If you enjoy leading collaborative design, driving technical clarity, and supporting project teams to deliver exceptional outcomes — you'll fit right in.
✉️ Ready to Join?
Become part of a community that is engineering better environments and brighter futures.
Register your interest today and stay connected to opportunities that match your skills, ambition, and imagination.


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About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com.
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