We are recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer with design experience in the water sector on a permanent basis.

Role Accountabilities Project Delivery - Collaborate with other discipline engineers and manage quality through the design workflow review to achieve time, cost and quality standards. - Ensure that the mechanical deliverables are produced to the required standards and specifications. - Check mechanical and hydraulic systems, including pumping systems, plant, building services, and ensure they have been completed to an appropriate level of detail and compliance. - Check integrated supplier packages and 3D models to ensure quality, safety, and technical standards are adhered to, including meeting DSEAR compliance. - Check mechanical documentation such as basis of design, specifications, work scope and schedules. - Review construction site design queries and change requests, to ensure quick but accurate responses and/or the design remains suitable. - Support the Senior Design Manager and Design Managers to forecast and allocate resources on a best for task basis. - Support the Project Design Managers and other engineering disciplines to plan and manage the design delivery, and to manage stakeholders regarding mechanical design acceptance. - Seek support and direction from the Principal Mechanical Engineer. - Provide knowledge for the creation and reviewing of supplier contracts and deliverables.

Health & Safety (CDM) - Drive excellence in health, safety and welfare for mechanical engineering. - Ensure designs comply with all relevant mechanical standards and regulations, including hazardous areas DSEAR compliance (if trained and competent). - Input into Construction Design Management (CDM) meetings and support preparing information for inclusion in the design risk assessment and Pre-Construction Information. - Develop designer alerts where lessons are to be learnt. Personal & Team Development - Support the Senior Design Manager to recruit Senior Mechanical Engineers and Mechanical Engineers.Qualifications & Experience - An engineering, or equivalent, degree, or be able to demonstrate a degree level of ability through relevant experience. - Preferably Chartered, or working towards Chartered status. - Experience of water-sector assets and capital projects. - Knowledge of all relevent regulations, standards and codes of practice - Experience of mentoring and coaching of junior engineers. - Ideally, but not essential, experience of a Design & Build environment. Competencies & Skills Leadership - Integrity - Fosters within their team compliance with the organisations business ethics, a respectful attitude to others, positive action to build our reputation, and integrity. - Communication & Collaboration - Challenges and addresses poor collaboration and promotes effective communication to all stakeholders. - Emotional Intelligence - Demonstrates leadership with emotional intelligence by understanding the needs and views of others. Champions diversity and inclusion. - Development & Learning - Comprehensive understanding of the development and learning needs within the team and actively defines training plans to address competency gaps. - Decision Making - Provides support and guidance to others for making complex decisions. Understands the impact of their decisions and takes full responsibility. Management - People Management - Provides line management for a team and is highly regarded by their team. - Engineering Management - Manages engineering activities for a team to achieve efficient engineering outputs. - Quality - Ensures that quality procedures are robustly followed and identifies improvements. - Risk and Opportunities - Develops and implements strategies to mitigate risks and realise opportunities across multiple projects.Technical - Design Production - Champions good practice in engineering designs including exercising independent judgement. Desing Output - Ensures that the Engineering documents, drawings and 3D models are produced to the required standard. -Innovation - Champions and delivers innovation concepts to improve efficiency within their teams and portfolio.