Design Engineer - Civil

MWH Treatment Limited; Falmer; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm based in Falmer is seeking a Civil Design Engineer to provide superior quality Engineering Design services. The role involves producing cost-effective design layouts, ensuring compliance with health and safety requirements, and coordinating designs across disciplines. Essential qualifications include an Engineering degree and understanding of water and sewage treatment principles. Hybrid working is available.

Qualifications

• 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 data.
• Ability to present technical proposals clearly and convincingly.
• Computer literacy.

Responsibilities

• Produce design layouts which are cost-effective and meet specifications.
• Monitor and review the procedures and processes.
• Ensure designs take account of environmental issues.
• Ensure that design takes full regard of health and safety requirements.

Skills

Understanding principles of water and sewage treatment

Ability to present technical proposals clearly

Computer literacy

Ability to rationalise designs

Education

Relevant discipline Engineering degree

Relevant discipline Engineering HND

Job description

Overview

We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a Civil Design Engineer based at Falmer with hybrid working available.

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-ordinate the design and produce design documents and drawings taking due account of health and safety requirements, specifications and standards pertaining to the contract.

Key responsibilities

• Produce design layouts which are cost effective, meet the requirements of the specification and which 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 co-ordination of designs with all other disciplines internal and external to MWHT in order to ensure that the design processes carried out on the contract are co-ordinated for the benefit of the contract as a whole.
• To work within a culture where satisfying the customer is recognised as the key to achieving other objectives, and that customers include everyone receiving benefit 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.