Job Description
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.
