Principal Engineer - Mechanical

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

Job summary

MWH Treatment is seeking a Principal Mechanical Engineer for its Bristol offices, offering a hybrid working model. The successful candidate will oversee engineering design services, ensuring cost-effective solutions while enhancing safety and satisfying customer needs. This role requires significant experience in water industry projects and strong technical skills in engineering design.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Car/car allowance

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Discounts and savings Hub

Qualifications

• Significant experience in complex water industry projects.
• Experience managing design aspects of water treatment plants.
• Ability to present technical proposals clearly.

Responsibilities

• Produce cost-effective design layouts and maintain competitiveness.
• Co-ordinate designs with all internal and external disciplines.
• Ensure customer satisfaction and a safe working environment.

Skills

Technical delivery of process plant systems

Understanding of water and sewage treatment principles

Ability to rationalise designs

Good general knowledge of water treatment aspects

Computer literacy

Education

Relevant discipline Engineering degree

Membership of a professional institution/chartered

Job description

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We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a Principal Mechanical Engineer based at our Bristol offices with hybrid working available.

You will report directly to the Regional Discipline Lead 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. 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.
  
  

About You

Essential

• Significant experience in technical delivery of process plant systems on complex water industry engineering projects.
• Strong 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
• Experience of working on design and construct projects using digital design
• Computer literacy
• Driving license
  
  

About Us

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1400 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed.Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills.

As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace.We don’t just tick boxes; we live these values every day.

What MWH offer

Packages include -

A competitive salary

Hybrid Working(Jobs needs dependent)

Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)

Contribution Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

And many more benefits including – cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Construction

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