Design Lead - to be a manager in Leeds

Aqua Consultants have an exciting opportunity to work with our partner United Utilities delivering Waste Water projects for AMP8. You will be involved in projects that improve their infrastructure over a range of project types. You will be delivering project related tasks, managing a multi-disciplinary team where necessary, delivering solutions on wastewater infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects at various stages in the project life cycle.

Extensive experience and understanding of the waste water industry, and treatment processes together with equipment/system requirements.

• Extensive experience in feasibility and outline design phases and technical reviews.
• Understanding of DSEAR, CDM, WIMES, British and European Standards and other statutory, regulatory, and non-regulatory provisions and guidance.
• 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.
• 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.
• Generation of business in line with existing frameworks and new project and framework opportunities.
• Commercial and contractual awareness.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft (Office) 365 packages.
• An industry applicable BEng, BSc, or equivalent in any engineering or project related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer or Project Manager or working towards this.

Personal qualities:

• 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.
• Motivational skills and the ability to encourage those around you to work to your own high standards of quality and compliance.
• 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).
• Development of standard and bespoke design solutions for the water industry and beyond.

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, professional membership fees paid, 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.