We are recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer with design experience in the water sector on a permanent basis.
Read on to fully understand what this job requires in terms of skills and experience If you are a good match, make an application.
Role Accountabilities Project Delivery
- Collaborate with other discipline engineers and manage quality through the design workflow review to achieve time, cost and quality standards.
- Ensure that the mechanical deliverables are produced to the required standards and specifications.
- Check mechanical and hydraulic systems, including pumping systems, plant, building services, and ensure they have been completed to an appropriate level of detail and compliance.
- Check integrated supplier packages and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are adhered to, including meeting DSEAR compliance.
- Check mechanical documentation such as basis of design, specifications, work scope and schedules.
- Review construction site design queries and change requests, to ensure quick but accurate responses and/or the design remains suitable.
- Support the Senior Design Manager and Design Managers to forecast and allocate resources on a best for task basis.
- Support the Project Design Managers and other engineering disciplines to plan and manage the design delivery, and to manage stakeholders regarding mechanical design acceptance.
- Seek support and direction from the Principal Mechanical Engineer.
- Provide knowledge for the creation and reviewing of supplier contracts and deliverables.
Health & Safety (CDM)
- Drive excellence in health, safety and welfare for mechanical engineering.
- Ensure designs comply with all relevant mechanical standards and regulations, including hazardous areas DSEAR compliance (if trained and competent).
- Input into Construction Design Management (CDM) meetings and support preparing information for inclusion in the design risk assessment and Pre-Construction Information.
- Develop designer alerts where lessons are to be learnt.
Personal & Team Development
- Support the Senior Design Manager to recruit Senior Mechanical Engineers and Mechanical Engineers.
Qualifications & Experience
- An engineering, or equivalent, degree, or be able to demonstrate a degree level of ability through relevant experience.
- Preferably Chartered, or working towards Chartered status.
- Experience of water-sector assets and capital projects.
- Knowledge of all relevent regulations, standards and codes of practice
- Experience of mentoring and coaching of junior engineers.
- Ideally, but not essential, experience of a Design & Build environment.
Competencies & Skills Leadership
- Integrity
- Fosters within their team compliance with the organisations business ethics, a respectful attitude to others, positive action to build our reputation, and integrity.
- Communication & Collaboration
- Challenges and addresses poor collaboration and promotes effective communication to all stakeholders.
- Emotional Intelligence
- Demonstrates leadership with emotional intelligence by understanding the needs and views of others.
Champions diversity and inclusion.
- Development & Learning
- Comprehensive understanding of the development and learning needs within the team and actively defines training plans to address competency gaps.
- Decision Making
- Provides support and guidance to others for making complex decisions.
Understands the impact of their decisions and takes full responsibility.
Management
- People Management
- Provides line management for a team and is highly regarded by their team.
- Engineering Management
- Manages engineering activities for a team to achieve efficient engineering outputs.
- Quality
- Ensures that quality procedures are robustly followed and identifies improvements.
- Risk and Opportunities
- Develops and implements strategies to mitigate risks and realise opportunities across multiple projects.
Technical
- Design Production
- Champions good practice in engineering designs including exercising independent judgement.
Desing Output
- Ensures that the Engineering documents, drawings and 3D models are produced to the required standard. xjlbheb
-Innovation
- Champions and delivers innovation concepts to improve efficiency within their teams and portfolio.