Project Engineer

At Alpheus, we deliver innovative water and wastewater treatment solutions for industrial clients. Our projects are critical to environmental sustainability and operational excellence, and we’re looking for a highly skilled Project Engineer to develop, plan and deliver these capital projects to budget, on time and to the required specification.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for planning and delivering a range of capital projects on budget.
• Full budgetary responsibility and accountability for delivering small to large schemes up to £1-2M.
• Manage and deliver projects from start to successful completion, on time and to quality requirements, including detail engineering design, procurement, site construction/installation, commissioning and handover.
• Directly oversee all critical elements of construction delivery to ensure robust achievement of key milestones, such as the installation of key process kit and the delivery of key civil engineering.
• Respond to customer enquiries and develop technical designs, specifications, costs, and approved proposals.
• Prepare/review contracts and subcontracts to ensure technical requirements are satisfied and commercial risks are acceptable.
• Liaise with all project stakeholders—including customers, suppliers, designers, subcontractors, site supervisors, and end‑users/operators—to ensure work progresses according to plans and all requirements are met.
• Lead on and deliver full CDM compliance, often in the role of Principal Contractor/Principal Designer.
• Manage full compliance with process and documentation to ensure compliance with internal and external audits.
• Oversee the delivery of construction safety on site where required, and where necessary the day‑to‑day coordination and supervision of contractors and work activities.

Requirements

• Proven experience of independently managing design & build engineering projects.
• Proven skills and knowledge in the management of CDM, contractors and on‑site construction teams.
• Educated to degree level with an engineering background, ideally with water/wastewater experience.
• Sound engineering knowledge and judgement.
• Excellent communication and organisation skills.
• Proactive, flexible and hands‑on in your approach, prepared to work to tight deadlines with fluctuating workloads.
• Ability and flexibility to travel, potentially across the UK, but with a focus within the greater Anglian region.
• IOSH/NEBOSH or similar H&S management experience and qualifications an advantage.

What’s in it for you?

• Personal private health care.
• 25 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion.
• Life Cover at 8x your salary.
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary.
• Flexible working.
• Car Allowance.
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double‑matches your contributions up to 6%.
• Bonus scheme.
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

We’re part of the Anglian Water Group, delivering sustainable water solutions that make a real difference. If you’re passionate about engineering excellence and want to help shape the future of water treatment, we’d love to hear from you.

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment.