Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Water & Wastewater AMP8 in Leeds

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Arcadis is currently recruiting for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our MEICA Water team as we look ahead to tackling some of the UK’s most technically challenging projects & AMP8 programmes. As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in utilising your technical expertise on a wide range of clean water and wastewater projects both regionally and across the UK. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

• Ability to self-start and work both independently and as a team member carrying out production, checking, review or approval of mechanical design deliverables.
• Supporting and/or leading design and advisory services relating to new and existing water and wastewater conveyance and treatment assets.
• Ensuring safety of yourself and others through design leadership and actions.
• Technical delivery within a multi-disciplinary team environment, in a mechanical design lead capacity where assigned, using latest digital design processes and resources.
• Identify and develop innovative and optimised technical solutions based on client needs and drivers.
• Co-ordinate work with multi-disciplinary teams (e.g., process, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and ICA).
• Establish and grow relationships with clients and capital alliance partners on project technical, commercial and progress matters.
• Ensuring projects meet required technical, legislative, quality, safety and environmental standards and objectives.
• Capturing key project and technical knowledge, including innovations.
• Promote MEICA team capability and achievements both internally and externally.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or other directly related degree.
• Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status (or approaching) and membership of a relevant professional institution (e.g., IMechE, IET, CIWEM).
• Significant experience and track record in technical delivery of process plant systems on complex engineering projects, preferably related to water and wastewater industry.
• Experience of working on design and construct projects using digital design platforms.
• Team leader with collaborative behaviours.
• Feasibility to detailed design stage delivery experience.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.