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Senior Mechanical Engineer (Water Utilities) United Kingdom

COWI A/S

London

Hybrid

GBP 50,000 - 80,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Mechanical Engineer, where you'll play a vital role in shaping sustainable water utilities infrastructure. This position offers the chance to collaborate with a dynamic M&E team while working on impactful projects across the UK and internationally. You'll be responsible for designing essential elements such as pressurized mains and pumping stations, ensuring compliance with local and international standards. With a focus on innovation and teamwork, this role promises to be a rewarding adventure in your engineering career, allowing you to make a tangible difference in creating solutions for a better tomorrow.

Benefits

28 days' holiday
Private health care
Flexible working conditions
Annual subscription fees for Professional Institutions
Group personal pension scheme
Life assurance

Qualifications

  • Experience in mechanical systems design and water-based systems.
  • Ability to provide technically sound solutions and act as a discipline lead.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver engineering work related to water supply and wastewater infrastructure.
  • Mentor junior team members and ensure compliance with standards.

Skills

Mechanical Infrastructure Design
Hydraulic Modelling
3D and BIM Design
Technical Assurance
Mentoring
Client Relationship Management

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Chartered Engineer Status

Tools

Water Industry Specifications (WIMES)
CDM2015 Regulations

Job description

Principal Mechanical Engineer (Water Utilities)

Location: London / Glasgow / Bristol / Derby / York
Type: Permanent

Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to be a part of a growing M&E team? Can you collaborate with colleagues across UK and International projects? Are you experienced in Mechanical Infrastructure Design? Then, this could be the next adventure in your career.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

To further our mechanical capability on Infrastructure projects, we are looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer with a Water Utilities background to join us. Your primary task will be to deliver engineering work related to the design of elements including water supply and wastewater infrastructure and non–infrastructure equipment. This includes pressurised mains, pumping stations, treatment works apparatus and other relevant equipment. Your role will be focused on the design environment, which, while based in the UK, will involve interacting day–to–day with colleagues across our global hubs.

Your key responsibilities will be:

  • Contributing towards the design of projects for a wide range of clients
  • Planning design work and deliverables together with wider MEP team
  • Development and technical assurance of design including use of relevant software
  • Ensuring compliance with both local and international standards
  • Coordination of multi–disciplinary aspects of projects
  • Mentoring junior team members in design
  • Contributing to the building of relationships with clients and other stakeholders

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises.

On top of that, you'll have:

  • A degree in mechanical engineering or similar
  • Achieved Chartered Engineer status (or equivalent)
  • Relevant experience within mechanical systems design
  • The ability to provide technically sound solutions alone and where required, acting as a discipline lead
  • A solid mechanical understanding of water–based systems such as pressurised water supply mains, pumping stations and treatment works apparatus
  • Experience with hydraulic modelling of pipe networks, steady state and transient analysis calculations
  • Knowledge on pipe support and stress calculations
  • Exposure to other mechanical equipment such as lifting equipment, actuated hydraulic gates and building services would be an advantage
  • Experience with 3D and BIM design
  • Knowledge of relevant Water Industry Specifications (WIMES)
  • Experience of applying CDM2015 regulations to design tasks
  • Experience of design and build projects would be beneficial which may include designer's representation on site

A place to work and so much more.

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

What we also offer:

  • 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
  • Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
  • Private health care, for you and your immediate dependents
  • Flexible and hybrid working conditions
  • Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
  • Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
  • Life assurance

As part of our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, we partner with the wisecampaign.org.uk to recruit for a better gender balance in our teams.

Got more questions?

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Specialist.

Equal opportunity employer.

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability.

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