Senior Mechanical Engineer

We are recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer with design experience in the water sector on a permanent basis.

Role Accountabilities

Project Delivery

• Collaborate with other discipline engineers and manage quality through the design workflow review to achieve time, cost and quality standards.
• Ensure that the mechanical deliverables are produced to the required standards and specifications.
• Check mechanical and hydraulic systems, including pumping systems, plant, building services, and ensure they have been completed to an appropriate level of detail and compliance.
• Check integrated supplier packages and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are adhered to, including meeting DSEAR compliance.
• Check mechanical documentation such as basis of design, specifications, work scope and schedules.
• Review construction site design queries and change requests, to ensure quick but accurate responses and/or the design remains suitable.
• Support the Senior Design Manager and Design Managers to forecast and allocate resources on a best for task basis.
• Support the Project Design Managers and other engineering disciplines to plan and manage the design delivery, and to manage stakeholders regarding mechanical design acceptance.
• Seek support and direction from the Principal Mechanical Engineer.
• Provide knowledge for the creation and reviewing of supplier contracts and deliverables.

Health & Safety (CDM)

• Drive excellence in health, safety and welfare for mechanical engineering.
• Ensure designs comply with all relevant mechanical standards and regulations, including hazardous areas DSEAR compliance (if trained and competent).
• Input into Construction Design Management (CDM) meetings and support preparing information for inclusion in the design risk assessment and Pre–Construction Information.
• Develop designer alerts where lessons are to be learnt.

Personal & Team Development

• Support the Senior Design Manager to recruit Senior Mechanical Engineers and Mechanical Engineers.

Qualifications & Experience

• An engineering, or equivalent, degree, or be able to demonstrate a degree level of ability through relevant experience.
• Preferably Chartered, or working towards Chartered status.
• Experience of water–sector assets and capital projects.
• Knowledge of all relevant regulations, standards and codes of practice.
• Experience of mentoring and coaching of junior engineers.
• Ideally, but not essential, experience of a Design & Build environment.

Competencies & Skills

• Leadership
  • Integrity – Fosters within their team compliance with the organisations business ethics, a respectful attitude to others, positive action to build our reputation, and integrity.
  • Communication & Collaboration – Challenges and addresses poor collaboration and promotes effective communication to all stakeholders.
  • Emotional Intelligence – Demonstrates leadership with emotional intelligence by understanding the needs and views of others. Champions diversity and inclusion.
  • Development & Learning – Comprehensive understanding of the development and learning needs within the team and actively defines training plans to address competency gaps.
  • Decision Making – Provides support and guidance to others for making complex decisions. Understands the impact of their decisions and takes full responsibility.
• Management
  • People Management – Provides line management for a team and is highly regarded by their team.
  • Engineering Management – Manages engineering activities for a team to achieve efficient engineering outputs.
  • Quality – Ensures that quality procedures are robustly followed and identifies improvements.
  • Risk and Opportunities – Develops and implements strategies to mitigate risks and realise opportunities across multiple projects.
• Technical
  • Design Production – Champions good practice in engineering designs including exercising independent judgement.
  • Design Output – Ensures that the Engineering documents, drawings and 3D models are produced to the required standard.
  • Innovation – Champions and delivers innovation concepts to improve efficiency within their teams and portfolio.