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Senior mechanical engineer (water sector)

Manchester
Permanent
Costain
Mechanical engineer
€70,000 a year
Posted: 20 December
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Job Description

Costain is expanding its Mechanical Design & Engineering Services to meet the increased engineering and design workload in the water sector, specifically for AMP 8 projects. We are currently seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer - Water to join our team and support multiple clients, including United Utilities, Severn Trent, Thames Water, Southern Water, Northumbrian Water, and Yorkshire Water.

The position will be based at our offices on Aviator Way, Manchester, with a flexible approach to home working to promote wellbeing. We encourage applications from candidates with experience in the water sector, as well as those from other industries, to foster interdisciplinary learning and enhance on‑site delivery.

This role presents an excellent opportunity to establish or advance a career in a technically challenging and rewarding sector that plays a crucial role in supporting the UK's water infrastructure.

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Responsibilities


Key Responsibilities

* To ensure compliance with Company & Client Policy with respect to water sector requirements.
* To complete specific design tasks as delegated by the Project Discipline Engineer or Engineering Manager as appropriate.
* To ensure work packs are delivered in timely and cost effective manner and in line with Company & Clients Project requirements and applicable Company & Client Codes and Standards. Where task forces are mobilised the team members are to be selected through the SQEP process and be familiar in the appropriate field of work.
* To ensure well maintained Quality Assurance, auditable records, and technical files in line with CDM requirements.
* To ensure smooth and efficient liaison with Other Associated Partners and disciplines as required.


Knowledge, Skills, and Experience


Essential

* Senior Mechanical Engineer - Water with specific UK knowledge and experience within their specialist field and discipline. (i.e.SQEP'd-Suitably Qualified Experienced Person).
* Significant experience in their discipline or a closely related one.
* Proficiency in the delivery of engineering design across a number of work categories.


Desirable

Experience in one or more of the following specialist mechanical engineering fields:

* Water treatment
* Waste water treatment
* Biosolids/sludge treatment
* Pumping systems
* Chemical storage and dosing
* Asset condition surveys and reports

Experience with the following mechanical engineering and design deliverables and activities:

* Process Flow Diagrams
* Plant Layout
* Equipment Specifications and Datasheets
* Pumping system calculations


Qualifications


Essential

* Be on track or have achieved professional qualifications such as Chartership or Incorporated Status
* Educational experience relevant to their engineering discipline, ideally degree qualified to a 2:1 or better
* Secondary level education, such as A levels, BTEC, T levels etc
* Safety passport or similar


Desirable

* Additional technically focused qualifications / training


About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future‑shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that disclose they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign

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