Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Water AMP8

ARCADIS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is recruiting a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join the MEICA Water team in the UK. The role involves leading design deliverables, coordinating with multi-disciplinary teams, and developing innovative solutions for water infrastructure projects.

We value Chartered Engineer status and a strong track record in process plant system delivery, particularly in water and wastewater sectors, with a focus on safety and compliance.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status and professional membership.
• Significant experience delivering process plant systems on complex projects (water/wastewater preferred).
• Experience with design and construct projects using digital design platforms.
• Team leader with collaborative behaviours.

Responsibilities

• Self-start and work independently or in a team on mechanical design deliverables.
• Lead design and advisory services for water and wastewater assets.
• Ensure safety through design leadership and actions.
• Deliver technically within a multi-disciplinary team using digital design resources.
• Identify and develop innovative, optimized solutions based on client needs.
• Coordinate work with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Establish and grow relationships with clients and partners on project matters.
• Ensure projects meet technical, legislative, quality, safety and environmental standards.
• Capture key project knowledge and innovations.
• Promote MEICA team capability and achievements.

Skills

Mechanical design

Team leadership

Client coordination

Self-starting

Safety leadership

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Chartered Engineer status

Tools

Digital design platforms

Job description

Arcadis Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

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.

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.

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.