Principal EICA Engineer

MWH Treatment Limited; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

MWH Treatment Limited is seeking a Principal EICA Engineer in Exeter, offering hybrid working options. The role involves delivering high-quality engineering design services, ensuring projects are safe and economically effective.

Key responsibilities include producing design layouts, coordinating with various disciplines, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Candidates should have a strong understanding of water treatment processes, experience in managing design staff, and relevant engineering qualifications.

Qualifications

• Experience managing staff in water and sewage treatment design.
• Relevant discipline Engineering HND with extensive suitable experience.
• Strong general knowledge of water treatment engineering.
• Ability to rationalise designs for economic plant layouts.

Responsibilities

• Produce cost-effective design layouts for projects.
• Ensure co-ordination of designs across all disciplines.
• Develop and update efficient procedures for department.
• Assure customer satisfaction throughout all processes.

Skills

Understanding of water and sewage treatment principles

Managing design aspects of treatment plants

Technical proposal presentation

Computer literacy

Education

Full Membership of a professional institution and Chartered Engineer

Relevant discipline Engineering degree

Job description

We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a Principal EICA Engineer based at Exeter, hybrid working available with an expectation to attend sites on a regular basis.

You will report directly to the RDL 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-ordinate 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 which can be constructed and commissioned effectively. The term ‘cost’ is to embrace all costs associated with the design and the subsequent construction of the design. To be cost effective the whole out turn cost of the design solution must be considered including design time costs, material costs, erection costs and any impact that the design solution might have on other disciplines.
• Ensure that standard practices are utilised wherever possible.
• Maintain competitiveness
• Provide estimates and feedback for Proposals department
• Work to procedures and processes to ensure the continuing development of the department
• Assist in developing procedures and processes.
• 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.
• Maintain files and records throughout the duration of contracts.
• Assure customer satisfaction.
• 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.
• Maintain a personal development plan.
• Assist in supervising and developing staff.
• Assist in ensuring a safe working environment for all staff.
• Reduce waste to a minimum from all departmental activities.
• Ensure designs take account of environmental issues.
• Ensure that design takes full regard of all health and safety requirements.

Essential Requirements

• Strong understanding of the principles of water and sewage treatment.
• Experience of managing members of staff in designing relevant discipline aspects of water and sewage treatment plants.
• Full Membership of a professional institution and Chartered Engineer.

Preferable

• Relevant discipline Engineering degree.

Minimum

• Relevant discipline Engineering HND with extensive suitable experience.
• Ability to rationalise designs and produce economic plant layouts.
• Good general knowledge of all aspects of water treatment, e.g. mechanical engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering and project management.
• 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.
• Ability to get to sites within the region is essential.

Desirable

• Relevant Engineering Master's Degree.