Senior/Principal Engineer - Civil

MWH Treatment Limited; Falmer; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Senior Civil Engineer in Brighton. The role involves providing engineering design services, coordinating designs, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. The ideal candidate will have experience in water treatment design and a relevant engineering degree or HND. This position offers a hybrid working option and opportunities for personal and staff development.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing/mentoring staff in water treatment design.
• Good general knowledge of mechanical, process, and electrical engineering.
• Ability to rationalise designs and produce economic layouts.

Responsibilities

• Produce design layouts that meet specifications and cost-efficiency.
• Ensure coordination of designs with all disciplines.
• Maintain personal development and assist in staff development.

Skills

Understanding principles of water and sewage treatment

Management/mentoring skills

Technical proposal presentation

Education

Relevant discipline Engineering degree

Engineering HND

Tools

Computer literacy

Job description

We arelooking to strengthen our engineering team with a Senior CivilEngineer based at Brightonwith hybrid working available.

You will report directly to the Principaland your role will be toprovide 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 where ever 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 MWHT in order 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.
• To 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.
• 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 plantsMembership of a professional institution chartered or nearing chartershipPreferable: - relevant discipline Engineering degreeMinimum:- relevant discipline Engineering HNDAbility to rationalise designs and produce economic plant layoutsGood general knowledge of all aspects of water treatment, e.g. mechanical engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering and project managementA flexible mind, with the ability to assimilate large amounts of different data at one timeAbility to present technical proposals clearly, confidently and convincinglyComputer literacyDriving licenseDesirable:Working towards Chartered Engineer status.Relevant Engineering Master's Degree