Mechanical Engineer

RSK Group; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9-day working fortnight

Competitive pension scheme

33 days annual leave

Paid volunteering day each year

Enhanced parental leave

Private medical cover

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to lead the design and delivery of innovative water infrastructure solutions. You will guide junior engineers, drive sustainable and cost-effective decisions, and ensure safety and compliance across projects.

Join the @one Alliance to deliver high-quality designs, mentor colleagues, and contribute to strategic decisions with a focus on future-proof, low-carbon solutions.

Qualifications

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering (or related).
• Chartered status or working towards chartered preferred.
• Proven experience in mechanical design, ideally in water/infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of industry standards and health and safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and review mechanical designs for safety and performance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Promote digital tools and modular construction techniques.
• Drive safety by design and reduce life-cycle costs.
• Champion sustainability and innovation across the design lifecycle.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster technical excellence.
• Work with project leaders on strategic engineering decisions.

Skills

Mechanical design experience

Leadership experience

Strong communication skills

Mentoring junior engineers

Health and safety knowledge

Decision-making

Collaborative mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Chartered status or working towards

Tools

CAD

Engineering software

Job description

At Anglian Water, we're Always Exploring - ensuring we remain competitive, attractive, and rewarding for both existing and prospective employees. By Doing The Right Thing, we're committed to recognising and rewarding our people fairly and transparently, while Building Trust through a culture that prioritises health, safety, and wellbeing.

Your Purpose

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer within one of our four business units, you'll be at the forefront of designing and delivering innovative water solutions. You'll lead technical delivery, drive sustainable and cost-effective design decisions, and guide junior engineers to deliver work that's safe, future-proof, and built to last.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and review mechanical designs to ensure compliance, safety, and performance excellence.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver projects on time, within budget, and to high quality standards.
• Promote the use of digital tools and modular construction techniques.
• Drive Health & Safety by design, identifying improvements and reducing whole-life costs.
• Champion sustainability, carbon reduction, and innovation across the design lifecycle.
• Mentor junior engineers and create a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Work closely with project and engineering leaders, contributing to strategic decisions.

You will ideally have:

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering (or related discipline).
• Preferably chartered, or working towards chartered status.
• Proven experience in mechanical design-ideally in the water sector or similar complex infrastructure environment.
• Strong understanding of industry standards, health and safety legislation, and construction principles.
• Leadership experience with a passion for coaching, mentoring and developing others.
• Proficiency in CAD and engineering software.
• Confident decision-maker, with a collaborative mindset and strong communication skills.

Binnies an RSK Group company is looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join us as part of our @one Alliance., Depending on your skills, experience, and interests, you could be aligned to one of our four business units:

Place Based Thinking

The Place Based Thinking team delivers some of the largest and most complex projects across the @one Alliance. Made up of six Senior Project Manager teams, we oversee 19 catchments, covering key sites such as Whitlingham, Flag Fen, Great Billing, Cotton Valley, Bedford, Colchester, and Ipswich Cliff Quays. These projects involve managing all parts of the network from rising and gravity mains, pumping stations, high spilling overflows, and water recycling centres.

Water

The Water Business Unit provides strategic support across the clean water network, covering both system performance and infrastructure planning. We assess the future hydraulic state of the network in response to population growth and increased demand, support the design and delivery of capital and infrastructure schemes to ensure hydraulic resilience, and work with optimisation teams to enhance overall network efficiency.

Water Recycling (East and West)

Our Water Recycling Business Unit, split into East and West regions, is responsible for the collection, conveyance, and treatment of wastewater across an extensive network. We operate over 76,000 km of sewerage infrastructure and 1,163 treatment centres, ensuring safe and sustainable discharge to the environment while driving innovation and environmental performance.

Why Join Us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with one of the UK's most successful capital delivery alliances. You'll have the chance to contribute to cutting-edge projects that shape the future of water infrastructure, working alongside a team of experts across various disciplines. We offer a culture that values innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth, with a focus on delivering sustainable solutions that make a positive environmental impact.

At Anglian Water's @one Alliance, we believe in Safer Every Day

Safety is at the heart of everything we do. Being Safer Every Day means making positive choices, moment by moment, to protect ourselves and those around us. We create a culture where health, safety and wellbeing come first.

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We develop intelligent solutions using our award-winning integrated planning and design approach to deliver functional infrastructure and lasting environmental and social legacies. This is backed by a culture that has stayed true since our foundation over 100 years ago. We create new possibilities for humanity through our innovative approach to delivery.

Together with our clients, we are always striving to find a smarter way to deliver projects. From providing low carbon, sustainable and resilient water solutions, flood alleviation and environment services, to connecting people with insights and data. Our business exists to improve the quality of life for our local communities today and for generations to come.

Binnies is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then. In fact, Environment Analyst recently highlighted RSK's growth commenting, "Few companies in the environmental services sector can claim to be expanding at the same pace as RSK."

RSK operates as a group of synergistic businesses with a growth strategy centred on diversification to build a resilient business that can withstand external pressures while also bringing more value to clients and opportunities to employees.

• 9-day working fortnight
• Competitive pension scheme
• 33 days annual leave
• Paid volunteering day each year
• Enhanced parental leave
• Private medical cover