Senior / Principal EICA Engineer - Water

COSTAIN GROUP; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm seeks a Senior/Principal EICA Engineer to join its team. The role involves managing a team and ensuring project compliance in the water sector, requiring strong electrical engineering skills and team management. Candidates should hold a relevant degree and preferably chartered status. The position is based in Greater Manchester with remote flexibility.

Qualifications

• Experience in the Water sectors with documented construction approval.
• Knowledge of UK legislation and installation requirements.
• Strong awareness of HSE requirements and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Managing a small team to deliver multiple projects.
• Approval of Electrical and Instrumentation project deliverables.
• Developing affordable solutions for regulatory compliance.

Skills

Team management

Electrical engineering

Control engineering

Instrumentation

Communication skills

Education

Degree in relevant engineering discipline

Chartered or Incorporated engineer status

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a Senior/Principal Electrical, Instrumentation, Control, and Automation (EICA) Engineer to join our Engineering Services team on a full-time basis. Must have good experience in E, C & I on water projects and be capable of leading a small team and delegating tasks & able to juggle multiple projects. Ideally local and can spend 1-2 days per week in the Manchester or London office. Site visits (per month or bi-monthly) required on CMDP (Southern Water South Coast).

Engineering and design work with customers as a primary provider of engineering support through ECI and FEED phases to take their project through to detailed design and construction. Currently, we have a surge in our engineering and design workload in the water sector to support AMP8 for clients including United Utilities, Severn Trent Water, Southern Water, Thames Water and Northumbrian Water. As an experienced Senior/Principal EICA Engineer you'll be working in our Water sector providing technical expertise in Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (EICA), contributing to the whole project life cycle from feasibility and conceptual design through to commissioning support and handover.

This role requires a motivated and dynamic Principal or Senior Engineer with recent experience in documentation approvals and team management. You'll also hold responsibility for liaison and coordination with our clients, supply chain partners, contractors, and third parties as required.

Responsibilities

• Managing a small team of engineers and designers to deliver multiple projects from a technical perspective
• Approval of Electrical, Control and Instrumentation project deliverables
• Ideally within commutable distance and able to spend 2-3 days per week in the London or Manchester office.
• Site visits (1 per month or bi-monthly) required on South Coast.

Further responsibilities

• Development of affordable solutions to meet EA regulatory compliance
• Collaborating with sub-contractors on intrusive site surveys to define required modifications and power requirement/upgrades
• Completing Electrical Load Schedules and identifying telemetry requirements
• Development of Best Practice and achieving our Net Zero sustainability target
• Ensuring strict compliance with all applicable national and international codes of practice, legislation and company/client standards and procedures. Specifically WIMES
• Preparing equipment and materials requisitions for a range of electrical, electronic and instrumentation and Control equipment
• Preparing sub-contractor installation scopes of work
• Reviewing supplier and sub-contractor quotations and completing technical bid assessments

Qualifications

• Degree in relevant engineering discipline (e.g. Electronic / Electrical / Control Engineering); Apprenticeships may be considered
• Chartered or Incorporated engineer status with a relevant professional body or evidence of working towards gaining these professional titles
• Good knowledge of design working practices and installation requirements of the discipline within the water sector
• Significant and proven engineering experience in the Water sectors with recent experience approved documentation for construction or engineering
• Awareness of risk identification, quantification, management and of HSE requirements
• Knowledge of UK legislation and standards
• Knowledge in the requirements for installation of equipment in process plants involving potentially explosive areas
• Experience in the requirements for CE/UKCA marking of plant and equipment, including ATEX, PED, Low Voltage Directive, Machinery Directive and EMC Compliance
• Highly motivated and dynamic
• Good communication skills and confident engaging with colleagues and relevant stakeholders
• Works with safety and risk management at the forefront of their minds
• Customer focussed

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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