Principal Designer

M Group Water; Colchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Designer, where you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and efficiency of water infrastructure projects. This exciting position allows you to influence design solutions while collaborating with diverse teams to tackle complex challenges. Your expertise will help safeguard water supply and improve environmental performance, all within a supportive and innovative environment. With opportunities for professional growth and a range of benefits, this role is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the construction industry.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave

Personal Accident Cover

Qualifications

• Experience in design within the construction industry.
• Ability to manage health and safety risks effectively.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for signing off pre-construction information.
• Develop and modify designs for construction teams and clients.

Skills

Design Engineering

Health and Safety Management

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Technical Expertise

Education

Degree in a relevant technical field

Membership of a relevant professional body

Job description

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.

Want to be a part of it?

About The Role

As our Principle Designer, you will be appointed by the client to take responsibility and accountability for signing off pre-construction information. You will influence how risks to health and safety are managed throughout a project and support sound design of solutions to remove risk.

You will provide and modify design for Construction teams, Contractors, and the Client. You need to understand issues across the water sector asset base, collaborate effectively, and communicate clear, workable outcomes for construction.

You will research and discover problems, develop insights, and provide focused definitions. You will develop, explore, and create potential solutions, then test, listen, and receive feedback to find optimal solutions.

You must consider pre-construction information, eliminate foreseeable health and safety risks, and take steps to reduce or control remaining risks. Demonstrating the necessary skills, knowledge, experience, and organizational capability is essential.

This role requires you to be innovative, challenged, engaged, and self-motivated to develop your technical expertise continuously. Bringing innovation and questioning established practices are key aspects of the role.

You will apply sound engineering judgment, understand and apply design guidance documents, standards, and specifications, and develop new ways of working.

Site visits and travel throughout the region are required.

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in a relevant technical field
• Membership of a relevant professional body
• Professional experience as a designer in the construction industry

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits to support your life in and out of work, including:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24/7
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal with retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance, and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers:

• Company car and fuel card with EV and hybrid vehicles
• My Car Choice salary sacrifice scheme
• Health Care Cash Plan for medical expenses
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Personal Accident Cover

About Us

We aim to be an employer of choice, attracting diverse and talented people. We support and recruit army veterans and foster an inclusive environment through our ENABLE networks. Our values shape our culture and how we work together:

• Responsibility and going further for our people, clients, communities, and the planet
• Openness and seeking new ways to exceed expectations
• Unity and teamwork
• Ambition and leadership in infrastructure services

We provide industry-recognized programs, training, and development for all career stages. Join us at an exciting time at M Group.

Please note: Job adverts may close early. Successful candidates may undergo background checks, and some roles require drug and alcohol testing.