Design Engineer - Civil

MWH Treatment Limited; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Exeter is seeking a Civil Engineer to join their team. The role involves producing superior quality engineering design services, ensuring coordination of designs, and considering health and safety requirements. Ideal candidates should have a relevant discipline Engineering HND, and a flexible mind to assimilate technical data. This position offers hybrid working opportunities.

Qualifications

• Understand the principles of water and sewage treatment.
• Relevant discipline Engineering HND.
• Relevant discipline Engineering degree preferable.

Responsibilities

• Produce design layouts which are cost-effective and meet specifications.
• Ensure that standard practices are utilised wherever possible.
• Provide estimates and feedback for proposals department.
• Work to procedures for departmental development.
• Monitor and review the procedures and processes.
• Write and update efficient procedures.
• Ensure coordination of designs with all disciplines.
• Work within a customer satisfaction culture.
• Ensure designs consider environmental issues.
• Ensure designs meet health and safety requirements.

Skills

Understand the principles of water and sewage treatment

Ability to rationalise designs

Economic plant layouts

Computer literacy

Education

Relevant discipline Engineering HND

Relevant discipline Engineering degree

Job description

Overview

We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a Civil Engineer based at our Bristol or Exeter offices with hybrid working available. You will report directly to the Principal Civil Engineer and your role will be to provide superior quality Engineering Design services to allow the company to minimise risks and maximise profits on turnkey and engineering services contracts. You will co‑coordinate the design and produce design documents and drawings taking due account of health and safety requirements, specifications and standards pertaining to the contract.

Responsibilities

• Produce design layouts which are cost effective, meet the requirements of the specification and can be constructed and commissioned effectively.
• Ensure that standard practices are utilised wherever possible.
• Provide estimates and feedback for proposals department.
• Work to procedures and processes to ensure the continuing development of the department.
• Monitor and review the procedures and processes.
• Write, update and monitor efficient procedures to aid the smooth running of the department.
• Ensure coordination of designs with all other disciplines internal and external to MWHT to ensure that the design processes carried out on the contract are coordinated for the benefit of the contract as a whole.
• Work within a culture where satisfying the customer is recognised as the key to achieving other objectives, and that customers include everyone receiving benefits from our processes, whether end users or other departments within the company.
• Ensure designs take account of environmental issues.
• Ensure that design takes full regard of all health and safety requirements.

Qualifications

Essential: Understand the principles of water and sewage treatment.

Minimum: Relevant discipline Engineering HND.

Preferable: Relevant discipline Engineering degree.

Ability to rationalise designs and produce economic plant layouts. A flexible mind, with the ability to assimilate large amounts of different data at one time. Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently and convincingly. Computer literacy.