Principal Engineer - Civil

MWH Treatment; Coleshill CP; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

MWH Treatment in Derby is seeking a Principal Civil Engineer to lead design teams on water and wastewater projects with hybrid working options. You will coordinate multi-disciplinary designs, drive cost-effective layouts, and ensure health and safety compliance across projects.

The role requires Chartered status, a degree in engineering, and proven leadership of staff on complex treatment plant schemes. You will contribute to proposals and help shape department processes.

Qualifications

• Must understand the principles of water and sewage treatment.
• Experience managing staff in designing water/sewage treatment plants.
• Member of a professional institution / chartered.
• Relevant discipline Engineering degree.
• Ability to rationalise designs and produce economical plant layouts.
• Broad knowledge of water treatment disciplines: mechanical, process, electrical and PM.
• Flexible mind able to assimilate large amounts of data.
• Ability to present technical proposals clearly and confidently.
• Computer literacy.
• Driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Produce cost-effective design layouts that meet specification and are constructible and commissionable.
• Utilise standard practices and maintain competitiveness.
• Provide estimates and feedback for Proposals department.
• Develop and monitor department procedures and processes.
• Assist in supervising and developing staff.
• Coordinate designs with other disciplines internal and external to MWHT.
• Maintain files and records and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Ensure health and safety requirements are embedded in all design work and environmental considerations.

Skills

Water and sewage treatment

Staff management

Design presentation

Computer literacy

Driving licence

Design rationalisation

Education

Engineering degree (relevant discipline)

Chartered engineer / professional member

Tools

Engineering software

Job description

We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a Principal CivilEngineer based at Derbywith hybrid working available.

You will report directly to the Regional Discipline Leadand 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. In order to ensure the above the individual must 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 will include:

• 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 where ever 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.

• EssentialStrong understanding of the principles of water and sewage treatment.
• Have experience of managing members of staff in designing relevant discipline aspects of water and sewage treatment plants
• Membership of a professional institution / chartered
• Relevant discipline Engineering degree
• 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
• Driving license