Principal Clean Water Engineer – WSP (UK & Ireland)
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Job Description
What if you could shape a career as unique as you? At WSP, you can always find opportunities to grow and do what matters to you. Make the most of our global reach to discover new challenges and chances to work with diverse, talented individuals who will help you expand your horizons.
As a Principal Clean Water Engineer, you'll provide technical leadership and guidance to a team in the delivery of a variety of water clean water modelling and network analysis projects, ensuring accurate and efficient project delivery for internal and external clients. The role will enable you to further develop and use your technical skills, applying your expertise to help us continue driving forward in terms of both technical quality and service efficiency.
A Typical Week
* Leading technical delivery and providing technical guidance to the project team;
* Client liaison and report preparation;
* Assist in the preparation of proposals within current frameworks and the development of additional clients;
* Training and mentoring of staff, especially more junior staff;
* Develop and maintain project‑related health and safety strategies, including risk assessments;
* Operate in accordance with corporate health and safety, environment and quality standards and ensure the project team complies with such standards.
Work as part of an award‑winning water team within a larger team of over 600 professionals across the UK, supported by our Global Water Team. We are currently engaged with an expanding portfolio of clients, including Severn Trent Water, Northern Ireland Water, Welsh Water, Southern Water, Wessex Water, United Utilities, Uisce Éireann, Southern Water, and Scottish Water Horizons. The opportunity for progression is a real possibility, combining your technical and industry knowledge with the right behaviours to encourage and develop others.
Qualifications and Experience
* A relevant degree and professional qualification with membership of an applicable institution, ICE/CIWEM or international equivalent;
* Significant experience in network modelling and analysis, encompassing emerging technologies specifically optimizer software;
* Undertaken detailed analysis of water supply networks and have led modelling teams for projects and studies including:
o Analysis of data to evaluate the performance of existing assets to develop site condition reports;
o Ensure that safety issues are fully considered within projects via CDM 2015;
o Ensure technical excellence in modelling outputs to design;
o Co‑ordination of a design to ensure good interface with all other disciplines;
o Participation in design reviews and technical audits;
o Input into multi‑discipline design programmes;
o Integration with other technical disciplines in the delivery of multi‑disciplinary project activities;
o Lead technical meetings and discussions with client engineers, suppliers and regulators;
o Contributing to design delivery processes to maintain change & cost control;
o Support/generate cost and man‑hours estimates for proposals, studies and projects;
o Act as Lead modelling engineer on selected projects controlling design, specifications, costs, hours, quality and programme;
o Keep up to date with developments in the CW modelling sector, from a technical and legislative perspective and seek out opportunities to develop a strong professional profile at a National level (make technical presentations internally, to clients and at conferences);
o Develop the strength of the expertise within the modelling and wider engineering teams.
We have multiple roles to fulfil and therefore can consider a range of skills and experience, to collectively strengthen our team’s capacity and technical and applied project management capabilities.
Seniority Level
Mid‑Senior level | Full‑time | Engineering and Information Technology | Professional Services
Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. Please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.
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