Senior Mechanical Engineer

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 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 and .

- 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