Design Engineer - Civil

MWH Treatment Limited; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Civil Engineer for its Exeter office, with hybrid working options available. You will provide high-quality engineering design services, coordinating designs and ensuring compliance with health and safety requirements. The ideal candidate should understand water and sewage treatment principles and hold a relevant engineering HND. Strong communication and computer skills are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Minimum: relevant discipline Engineering HND.
• Preferable: relevant discipline Engineering degree.
• Ability to present technical proposals clearly and convincingly.

Responsibilities

• Produce design layouts that are cost-effective and meet specifications.
• Provide estimates and feedback for proposals department.
• Ensure designs take full regard of health and safety requirements.

Skills

Understanding of water and sewage treatment

Ability to rationalise designs

Computer literacy

Education

Relevant discipline Engineering HND

Relevant discipline Engineering degree

Job description

We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a CivilEngineer based at our Bristol or Exeter Offices with hybrid working available.

You will report directly to the Principal Civil Engineer and your role will be to provide 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.
• Ensure that standard practices are utilised wherever possible.
• Provide estimates and feedback for proposals department.
• Work to procedures and processes to ensure the continuing development of the department.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. Minimum: relevant discipline Engineering HND. Preferable: - relevant discipline Engineering degree. Ability to rationalise designs and produce economic plant layouts. A flexible mind, with the ability to assimilate large amounts of different data at one time. Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently and convincingly. Computer literacy.