Senior & Principal Design Engineers

Lanesra Technical Recruitment Ltd

West of England, Exeter

Hybrid

GBP 60,000 - 75,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Bonus (DOE)

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Discounts and savings hub

Job summary

Lanesra Technical Recruitment Ltd. is representing a water sector design and build provider hiring Senior & Principal Design Engineers for Civil, EICA, Mechanical and Process disciplines in the South West (Bristol or Exeter).

The role focuses on coordinating design across disciplines, delivering cost-effective, compliant designs and documentation for turnkey contracts while maintaining health and safety standards and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

Experience delivering technical design for water/wastewater projects.
Ability to mentor team members in discipline design areas.
Capable of coordinating multi-discipline design activities.

Responsibilities

Produce cost-effective design layouts and drawings.
Coordinate designs across disciplines and ensure safety standards.
Maintain design records and documentation for contracts.
Assist in developing and improving department procedures.
Ensure customer satisfaction and design quality.

Skills

Water sector experience

Mentoring staff

Design coordination

Driving licence

Education

Engineering qualification

Chartered engineer

Job description

Position: Senior & Principal Design Engineers

Location: Bristol or Exeter with hybrid working available

Rate Guide: £60-75k (Neg DOE) plus car allowance and excellent benefits package

Our Client

Is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1,000 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.

The Role

Our client is looking to strengthen their Engineering team with a Senior and Principal Design Engineers of all disciplines - Civil, EICA, Mechanical and Process. Based in the Southwest region at either Bristol or Exeter, you will report directly to the Principal Engineer or Regional Discipline Lead. 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

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
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 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, and that customers include everyone receiving benefit from our processes, whether end users or other departments within the company.

Assist In

supervising and developing staff.
ensuring a safe working environment for all staff.
designs take account of environmental issues.
design takes full regard of all health and safety requirements.

Experience

Experience in technical delivery of complex water industry engineering projects
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
Relevant discipline Engineering qualification
Ability to rationalise designs and produce economic plant layouts
Good general knowledge of all aspects of water treatment, such as electrical engineering, process engineering, civil 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
Experience of working on design and construct projects using digital design

Package includes

A competitive salary
Car/car allowance (subject to role and level of position)
Bonus (DOE)
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

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