Mechanical Design Engineer

RPS Group Plc; Reading; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in the UK seeks a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join their Water Consultancy team. In this role, you will work on water treatment projects, ensuring exceptional services. You'll liaise with clients, produce technical specifications, and mentor junior staff. Candidates should have a degree in mechanical engineering, significant water industry experience, and strong communication skills. This position offers a chance to innovate and make a positive impact on the communities served by the water industry.

Qualifications

• Experience in the water industry is significant.
• Ability to manage projects to time, cost, and quality.
• Chartered Engineer or nearing chartership.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with clients to develop project plans.
• Produce technical outputs and specifications.
• Provide engineering inputs and design outputs.
• Deliver technical presentations to clients.
• Assess existing infrastructure for mechanical design.

Skills

Mechanical engineering principles

Pump selection and design

Knowledge of P&IDs

Technical documentation production

CDM Regulations compliance

Contract procurement methods

Mentoring junior staff

Site inspection and testing

Education

Degree in mechanical engineering or closely-related subject

Postgraduate qualifications

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

We are currently in the market to recruit a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our dynamic and growing Water Consultancy team operating across the UK. You'll work on exciting AMP8 and AMP9 projects, ensuring exceptional water services in a collaborative environment. RPS, Tetra Tech are actively engaged in several long-term wastewater programmes across the UK water industry, helping our clients address major pollution and flooding challenges. As part of these programmes our wastewater consulting team undertake a broad range of projects including urban drainage and water quality modelling studies; WINEP, SOAF, DWMPs and catchment investment planning; and the development of engineering solutions from feasibility through to outline and detailed design. About The Team: As part of Tetra Tech. RPS Water Consulting is a team of engineers, designers, modellers, and data analysts providing asset management and operational strategy development, to our water industry clients to support business planning and delivery. This is an evolving industry, providing challenges and opportunities that require innovation, dedication and teamwork to help us meet our clients' needs.

Responsibilities

• You will be experienced in liaising with the client to understand fully their needs, interpret their data, and develop a project plan. You will be able to coordinate multidisciplinary teams to ensure that the project as a whole meets its goals.
• You will be experienced in producing technical outputs such as technical specifications, schedules, and reports, sizing and designing pumping systems and aeration systems, and be familiar with collaborative planning reviews and designs of solutions.
• You will be able to provide engineering inputs and design outputs in collaboration with other disciplines, producing general arrangement drawings, 3D models, 2D plans and sections, and piping & instrumentation diagrams.
• To be successful in this role, you will have strong communication skills and be able to deliver technical presentations to clients and other design engineers as well as inputting into collaborative design discussions including technical workshops and safety reviews, including HAZOPs and ALMs.
• You will understand how water and wastewater treatment processes operate and be experienced in assessing existing site infrastructure to develop and deliver the mechanical design.
• Balance your workload across a wide variety of projects from a range of major long-term frameworks with water companies and contractors across the UK.
• Seek to achieve positive outcomes for projects and the community.
• Work closely with other senior and principal engineers and other stakeholders supporting project delivery.
• Help to develop the wider team by acting as a mentor and guide to less experienced members, checking their work and providing technical governance and oversight.
• Interpret and understand technical drawings and supervise their production, ideally through AutoCAD and/or Inventor experience.
• Undertake asset condition surveys and prepare reports and recommendations.
• Contribute to the production of process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs).
• Prepare mechanical design deliverables including calculations, reports, specifications, datasheets, drawings, schedules, and procurement documentation.
• Provide support to allow the project team to comply with the duties of Designer under CDM, including through the production of design risk assessments.
• Ensure quality assurance systems and procedures are followed, and that high standards are maintained.
• Act as a project manager, package manager or design team leader as required.

Why Join Us

By joining us, you're not just taking on exciting projects and collaborating with leading minds. You're making a meaningful impact on millions of lives in the UK, leaving a legacy for generations to come. As a valued member of our team, you'll play a crucial role in the water industry, working with the largest water companies in the UK, ensuring a positive and enduring influence on the communities we serve. If you're ready to contribute your skills and expertise to a dynamic and innovative environment, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

Qualifications

• A good technical understanding of mechanical engineering principles.
• Significant water industry experience.
• Proficient in:
  • Pump selection and the design of pumping systems
  • The use of P&IDs to create equipment, valve, and pipe schedules.
  • The production of specifications, reports and technical documentation.
  • Complying with the Construction, Design & Management (CDM) Regulations and designing for safety.
  • Various methods of contract procurement and engagement, ideally including the NEC forms of contract
  • Managing your work to time, cost, and quality criteria.
  • Supporting junior staff in their technical and personal development.
  • The ability to travel and visit operational and construction sites as required, to act in a safe manner, and to survey, inspect, and witness test mechanical equipment and installations.
• Knowledge of design tools and software such as AutoCAD or similar design packages would be an advantage but is not essential.
• A degree-level qualification in mechanical engineering or a closely-allied subject, ideally IMechE accredited. Postgraduate qualifications are an advantage.
• Chartered engineer or working towards and nearing chartership.