Senior Design Engineer (Water)
York
Permanent
Office/Home Hybrid Working
Do you want to be a part of a growing Water team? Can you collaborate with colleagues across UK and International projects? Are you experienced in the Civil or Mechanical design of water or wastewater schemes? Then this could be the next adventure in your career.
Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow
To further strengthen our civil and mechanical capability on water and wastewater treatment projects, we are looking for a Senior Design Engineer with a water utilities background to join us. Your primary task will be to deliver engineering work related to the design of elements including water supply and wastewater infrastructure and non-infrastructure equipment. This includes pressurised mains, pumping stations, treatment works apparatus and other relevant equipment and structures.
Your role will be focused on the design environment which, while based in the UK, will involve interacting day-to-day with colleagues across our global hubs. There may also be opportunities to broaden your contribution to other areas within the Civils or MEICA discipline as well as client-side or site-based roles in a variety of major infrastructure settings.
Your key responsibilities will be:
1. Contributing towards the design of projects for a wide range of clients in the UK water sector
2. Planning design work and deliverables together with wider civils and MEICA teams
3. Development and technical assurance of design including use of relevant software and engineering calculations
4. Ensuring compliance with both local and international standards
5. Coordination of multi-disciplinary aspects of projects including civil, mechanical, electrical and process interfaces
6. Mentoring junior team members in design and supporting the development of graduate engineers
7. Contributing to the building of relationships with clients and other stakeholders
8. Acting as a technical link between senior discipline leads and junior engineers or international delivery teams
Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.
On top of that, you’ll have:
9. A degree in civil or mechanical engineering
10. Achieved Chartered Engineer status (or equivalent)or be working towards Chartership with a recognised professional institution
11. Relevant experience within civil engineering, structural engineering or mechanical systems design in the water sector
12. A solid understanding of water-based systems such as pressurised water supply mains, pumping stations and treatment works apparatus
13. Experience with hydraulic modelling of pipe networks, steady state and transient analysis calculations
14. Knowledge of pipe support and stress calculations
15. Experience in the design or specification of mechanical equipment within water or wastewater treatment works (e.g. pumps, screens, pipework systems, valves, or sludge handling equipment)
16. Experience of pressure pipeline systems including surge considerations and associated civil interfaces such as thrust blocks
17. Awareness of hazardous area classification and relevant regulations such as DSEAR would be advantageous
18. Exposure to other mechanical equipment such as lifting equipment, actuated hydraulic gates and building services would be an advantage
19. Experience with 3D and BIM design
20. Knowledge of relevant Water Industry Specifications (WIMES)
21. Experience of applying CDM regulations to design tasks
22. Experience of design and build projects would be beneficial which may include designer's representation on site