Principal Mechanical Engineer - Water

Principal Mechanical Engineer - Water

Role Overview:
An opportunity has arisen with a leading construction business, for a Principal Mechanical Engineer based to join the design team in the North West.

Reporting to the Regional Design Manager, the successful applicant will be responsible for leading the mechanical design function and output from numerous locations to support all clients in the North.

This is predominantly a technical role and we are seeking candidates with significant experience and a strong track record in technical design delivery in the water industry.

The client:

One of the UK's most recognisable construction businesses. With a vision to be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by their values to deliver lasting change for stakeholders and the communities they conduct their business in.

Improving people's lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for employees to learn, grow and progress, working with the supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment.

Holding true to company values, delivering excellence for clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of the business and doing the right thing, the client has built a strong and lasting reputation.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical leadership for the mechanical design function - effectively you will 'own' our process design procedures and be responsible for managing and further developing sub-processes and process design activities we undertake.

Ensuring technical excellence - working across design teams to you will seek optimum solutions and drive our teams to produce efficient designs that balance capital and operational costs and benefits, identifying and managing opportunities and risks, promoting innovation in our outputs, and ensuring that procedural technical governance is adhered to.

Industry practice champion - you will be responsible for ensuring that applicable industry standards and codes of practice are upheld, and working with designers, ensure that they abide by client particular specifications and requirements.

Design for safe construction and operation - working with our wider project delivery teams you will ensure that health and safety is at the heart of what we do, safeguarding our workforce, our clients' personnel and the public by implementing designs that can be safely and efficiently built, commissioned, optimised, operated and decommissioned.

Trouble shooting - you will be involved with technical problem solving on projects in delivery. Moreover, you will be responsible for ensuring that these issues are identified, avoided, reduced, or safely managed, through technical governance and risk and opportunity management. Lessons learnt on projects, both good and bad must be fed back and promoted or avoided on future schemes.

Technical development of staff - whilst this role does not include line management responsibilities, a strong drive to share and impart knowledge to our teams is essential as is the need to mentor and develop our expanding design team.

Professional development of staff - chartered status is desirable as we want to develop strong links to professional bodies (IMechE, IET, Institute of Water etc), encourage and support development of our staff towards professional accreditation and chartered status, as well as STEM engagement with local schools, colleges and universities to encourage engineering as a career.

Experience and Qualifications:

Essential attributes:

Industry applicable BEng, BSc or equivalent in a mechanical discipline

Significant experience and understanding of water and sewage treatment and their component processes

Extensive water industry mechanical design expertise

Working knowledge of CDM

Commercial and contractual awareness and the implications of design in effective project delivery

Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and / or Google software packages

The ability to work in a busy environment under pressure

Good time management skills to prioritise a varied workload to comply with tight deadlines

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

A "can do" attitude and the ability provide to support and mentoring to other members of the team

Prepare and/or check process calculations

Prepare and/or check PBDs, PFDs and P&IDs

Support the preparation and implementation of commissioning plans and impact assessments

Highly recommended attributes:

Chartered Engineer (or able and ready to progress to chartered status)

Experience with AutoCAD, Revit and FEA software's would be an advantage

Strong team player but also able to work as an individual

What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £3.2 billion we are one of the industry's leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we're poised for further growth and success, so if you're committed, talented and enthusiastic, this is the right place for you.

We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our 'Be Well' programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.

We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.

For more information, contact Doug Smith of PSR Solutions on dsmith @ psrsolutions. co. uk