Senior or Principle Engineer - EICA

MWH Treatment; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior or Principal EICA Engineer to enhance their engineering team in Cambridge. This role offers hybrid working options and focuses on delivering high-quality engineering design services for water and sewage treatment projects. You will be responsible for producing cost-effective design layouts, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and mentoring staff. This position is ideal for a motivated individual who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about driving sustainable engineering solutions. Join a forward-thinking company that values customer satisfaction and professional development.

Qualifications

• Experience in water and sewage treatment design and management.
• Ability to produce cost-effective and compliant design layouts.

Responsibilities

• Produce design layouts that are cost-effective and meet specifications.
• Ensure coordination of designs with all internal and external disciplines.

Skills

Water and sewage treatment principles

Design rationalization

Computer literacy

Technical proposal presentation

Project management

Mentoring and managing staff

Environmental considerations in design

Education

Relevant Engineering Master's Degree

Membership of a professional institution

Tools

Design software

Job description

We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a Senior or Principal EICA Engineer based at Cambridge with hybrid working available.

You will report directly to the EICA Integration 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. 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.

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 wherever possible, maintain competitiveness, and provide estimates and feedback for the Proposals department.
• Work to procedures and processes to ensure the continuing development of the department.
• Assist in developing procedures and processes and monitor and review them.
• 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 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.
• Work within a culture where satisfying the customer is recognised as the key to achieving other objectives, including 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:

• Understand the principles of water and sewage treatment.
• Have experience of managing/mentoring members of staff in designing relevant discipline aspects of water and sewage treatment plants.
• Membership of a professional institution chartered or nearing chartership.
• 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.

Desirable:

• Working towards Chartered Engineer status.
• Relevant Engineering Master's Degree.