Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Water AMP8

ARCADIS; Exeter; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is recruiting a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our MEICA Water team as we tackle AMP8 programmes across the UK. The role involves leading mechanical design deliverables for water and wastewater assets, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring safety and quality throughout the project lifecycle.

Based in Exeter, you'll engage with clients and delivery partners, drive innovative solutions, and help grow relationships within the water sector.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status (or nearing).
• Extensive experience delivering process plant systems in water/wastewater.
• Experience with design and construct projects using digital design platforms.
• Proven leadership and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Self-start and work independently or in a team on mechanical design deliverables.
• Lead or support design and advisory services for water assets.
• Ensure safety through design leadership and actions.
• Deliver technically within a multi-disciplinary team using digital design processes.
• Coordinate with process, civil, structural, electrical teams.
• Build relationships with clients and partners on technical and commercial matters.
• Ensure compliance with standards and environmental objectives.
• Capture knowledge and innovations.
• Promote MEICA team capabilities externally.

Skills

Mechanical design

Team leadership

Digital design platforms

Water/wastewater projects

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Chartered Engineer

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is currently recruiting for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our MEICA Water team as we look ahead to tackling some of the UK's most technically challenging projects & AMP8 programmes.

Arcadis continues to grow its water sector engineering team following the successful appointment to a number of long‑term design partner agreements across the UK. We are working alongside collaborative delivery partners in the north of England, as well as with design‑and‑build contractors and water utility clients in the south. With several of these frameworks extending well into AMP9, this role offers people the chance to build lasting relationships, develop their careers within a stable pipeline of work, and play a meaningful part in shaping resilient water infrastructure for the future.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large‑scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

• Ability to self‑start and work both independently and as a team member carrying out production, checking, review or approval of mechanical design deliverables.
• Supporting and / or Leading design and advisory services relating to new and existing water and wastewater conveyance and treatment assets.
• Ensuring safety of yourself and others through design leadership and actions.
• Technical delivery within a multi‑disciplinary team environment, in a mechanical design Lead capacity where assigned, using latest digital design processes and resources.
• Identify and develop innovative and optimised technical solutions based on client needs and drivers
• Co‑ordinate work with multi‑disciplinary teams (e.g., process, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and ICA)
• Establish and grow relationships with clients and capital alliance partners on project technical, commercial and progress matters
• Ensuring projects meet required technical, legislative, quality, safety and environmental standards and objectives.
• Capturing key project and technical knowledge, including innovations.
• Promote MEICA team capability and achievements both internally and externally.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or other directly related degree
• Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status (or approaching) and membership of a relevant professional institution (e.g., IMechE, IET, CIWEM)
• Significant experience and track record in technical delivery of process plant systems on complex engineering projects, preferably related to water and wastewater industry.
• Experience of working on design and construct projects using digital design platforms
• Team leader with collaborative behaviours
• Feasibility to detailed design stage delivery experience

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.