Mechanical Design Manager - Water United Kingdom Derby, Glasgow, London, York Application Deadl[...]

Do you want to be a part of a growing M&E team? Can you collaborate with colleagues across UK and International projects? Are you an experienced Mechanical Engineering Manager working within the UK water sector? Then, this could be the next adventure in your career.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow. To further expand our capability in delivering water sector MEP projects, we are looking for an experienced Mechanical Design Manager to join us. You will use your experience to oversee the delivery of our Water projects to time and budget. Your role will be focused on the design environment, which while based in the UK, will involve day-to-day interaction with colleagues across our global hubs.

• Leading and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to deliver water sector project work to agreed quality, time and budget requirements.
• Using your mechanical delivery experience to provide an effective technical gatekeeping role on delivery quality in recognition of client requirements.
• Ensuring compliance with standards relevant to the UK water industry.
• Communicating with clients and other stakeholders including ensuring requirements are understood and documented and feeding this back into the project team's approach.
• Effectively handling project risk using contractual processes and escalating matters as appropriate.
• Managing scope and change control effectively, professionally challenging requests when the need arises.
• Mentoring team members in mechanical design development.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future. The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

• A degree in mechanical engineering.
• Membership of a recognised professional institution.
• Chartered Engineer status or equivalent.
• Demonstrable inter-personal Client facing skills and experience leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience programming design activities with other disciplines.
• A solid understanding of water-based systems such as pressurised water supply mains, pumping stations and treatment works apparatus.
• Experience with hydraulic modelling of pipe networks, steady state and transient analysis calculations.
• Knowledgeable on pipe support and stress calculations.
• Broad experience in mechanical system design for the UK water sector.
• Experience in developing control philosophies.
• Experienced in 3D and BIM delivery.
• Knowledge of relevant Water Industry Specifications (WIMES).
• Experience of applying CDM2015 regulations to design tasks.

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays.
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities.
• Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents.
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions.
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions.
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange.
• Life assurance.

Equal opportunity employer. COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.