Design Manager

Hybrid working with 2-3 days per week in United Utilities Lingley Mere office. Site visits as required. Permanent full-time (40 hours) Competitive salary plus benefits.

Aqua Consultants have an exciting opportunity to work with our partner United Utilities on their Better Rivers Programme of work. You will be involved in projects that improve their infrastructure and reduce spills to watercourse by 60%. You will be delivering project tasks, designs and managing a multi-disciplinary team delivering solutions on wastewater infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects at various stages in the project life cycle, ensuring they are delivered within agreed timeframes and budget.

The role requires:

• Extensive experience and understanding of the water industry, and water and sewage treatment processes together with equipment/system requirements.
• Extensive experience in feasibility, outline, detailed design and technical reviews.
• Understanding of DSEAR, CDM, WIMES, British and European Standards and other statutory, regulatory, and non-regulatory provisions and guidance.
• The ability to generate innovative and/or technically differentiated solutions to problems, to deliver added value for clients.
• Responsibility for providing a safe working culture within project teams and promoting safety.
• Delivery of complex projects successfully within budget and on schedule to our clients' requirements.
• Fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Commitment to supporting your team to ensure a high-quality service in delivery.
• Leadership of your team of diverse individuals, actively encouraging new ways of thinking to provide an agile delivery environment.
• The provision of a proactive risk identification and mitigation environment that allows for innovation and creative agile delivery.
• Line management and mentoring of junior engineers including training and development.
• Ability to foster and develop positive relationships through support of business partners and key clients.
• Experience in implementing and having input into company technical assurance.
• Managing client relationships and frameworks to ensure mutual value, hitting KPIs while exceeding client expectations.
• Generation of business in line with existing frameworks and new project and framework opportunities.
• Commercial and contractual awareness.
• Desire to understand and promote the Company purpose, vision, values, and culture.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft (Office) 365 packages.
• An industry applicable BEng, BSc, or equivalent in any engineering discipline. Chartered Engineer or working towards this. Relevant experience will also be considered.

The engineering services we offer to our clients require us to be able to deliver in an agile way. The following are therefore examples of the type of skills and qualities we need you to have or be working towards:

• Recognition that satisfying the customer is the key to achieving other objectives, and that customers include everyone receiving benefits from our processes, whether end-users or other departments within the company.
• The ability to work remotely whilst successfully achieving deliverable-based outcomes through a virtual team.
• The ability to prioritise a varied workload and demonstrate good time management to comply with deadlines.
• Organisational skills, and a passion for excellence.
• Motivational skills and the ability to encourage those around you to work to your own high standards of quality and compliance.
• A desire for continual learning and drive to improve those around you by sharing information, lessons learnt and best practice.
• A drive to push yourself and work outside of your comfort zone when the need arises with a "can do" attitude, willingness to work through problems and make decisions.
• The ability to build and maintain strong relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• A trustworthy and ethical approach, exercising discretion where required.

Examples of work types:

• Site surveys and plant capacity assessments.
• Technical report writing at all stages of project lifecycle.
• Production of design risk assessments, project plans, project quality plans, method and risk assessment, forecasting reports (utilisation, work to date and cost to complete).
• Fee proposals or offers of service; development of activity schedules/work plans.
• Participation in Hazard Studies including HAZOP, HAZCON and HAZCOM.
• Development of standard and bespoke design solutions for the water industry and beyond.
• Review of calculations, drawings and reports prepared by others.

Qualifications:

• NEC accreditation.
• Knowledge of United Utilities engineering standards and specification.
• Experience of designing CSOs and storage tanks.

What we would like to offer you:

• Competitive salary + discretionary bonus.
• Company pension.
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays + option to purchase additional leave.
• Salary Sacrifice Pension scheme.
• Company mobile phone and laptop provided.
• Training and career progression opportunities.
• Life Assurance Scheme 4 x annual salary.
• Employee Assistance Programme (with access to GP appointments, Physio appointments and Mental Health Support).
• Medicash cash plan (Money back on everyday healthcare costs such as dental, glasses, contact lenses).
• Refer a friend scheme.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay and leave.

Adler and Allan are committed to fostering diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We proudly embrace equal opportunities for all applicants, regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.