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Lead design engineer: water infrastructure projects

Sunderland
Jn Bentley
Design engineer
Posted: 10h ago
Offer description

Mott MacDonald Bentley is a fully integrated design and build business combining the design expertise of Mott MacDonald with the contracting experience of JN Bentley to deliver award‑winning projects. We have joined a new partnership in Northumbrian Water’s Living Water Enterprise, an innovative vehicle to deliver large‑scale construction programmes supporting a £3.6bn workload. The Project Design Engineer role merges Project Management and Design Engineering, managing projects through the outline and detailed design lifecycle, supported by our multi‑disciplinary teams.


Responsibilities

* Work as part of a project triangle with a Site Manager and Quantity Surveyor, ensuring technical, constructability and commercial aspects are considered throughout.
* Lead the design of treatment or infrastructure projects from initial outline to detailed design, through construction, commissioning and handover.
* Coordinate the project team including civil, electrical, mechanical, process designers, BIM modelers and technical specialists to deliver designs on programme, within budget and to required quality.
* Undertake design within your discipline and mentor less experienced colleagues where appropriate.
* Build positive relationships with the client’s project, operational and technical assurance teams, promoting a "one‑team" approach.


Qualifications

* Accredited Degree in Engineering – Civil, Mechanical, Process or Electrical.
* Incorporated Member of an Engineering Institution.
* Experience in outline and detailed design of water or wastewater projects.
* Knowledge of Designer or Principal Designer duties under CDM 2015.


Benefits

* MMB matches employee pension contributions between 4.5 % and 7 %.
* Annual bonus schemes shared across the business.
* Payment of annual professional institution subscription costs.
* Minimum 33 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays; ability to buy, sell or carry over annual leave through a flexible benefits programme.
* Life Assurance, Private Medical Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance and health screening options.
* Flexible working arrangements to support work‑life balance.
* Participation in Advanced Employee Networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
* Enhanced family leave policies including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, two weeks paid paternity/partner leave, and option for shared parental leave.
* Up to 2 paid additional days of leave for those with significant caring responsibilities.
* Structured development schemes supporting professional chartership and career progress.
* Fast‑tracked opportunity toward chartership reviews, mentorship, hands‑on experience and tailored training.


Immigration

MMB is not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. We continue to welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship.

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