Senior Design Engineer

MWH Treatment Limited; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An engineering services provider is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer for their Peterborough office, offering hybrid working options. The successful candidate will report to the Principal Engineer and be responsible for providing high-quality Engineering Design services, coordinating designs, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. Applicants should have a degree in Mechanical Engineering and significant design experience, especially in water and sewage treatment. This role requires a flexible approach and strong technical proposal presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Extensive practical mechanical design experience (8-10 years ideally).
• Ability to rationalise designs and produce economic plant layouts.
• Flexible mind, able to assimilate large amounts of different data.

Responsibilities

• Produce design layouts that are cost effective and meet specifications.
• Ensure standard practices are utilised wherever possible.
• Write, update and monitor efficient procedures for the department.

Skills

Mechanical design experience

Understanding of water and sewage treatment

Ability to present technical proposals

Computer literacy

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a Senior Electrical Engineer based at One Alliance, Peterborough office, with hybrid working available.

You will report directly to the Principal 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 coordinate 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

• 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 coordination 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 coordinated for the benefit of the contract as a whole.
• 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.

Qualifications

Essential: Degree in Mechanical Engineering and have extensive practical mechanical design experience (ideally 8‑10 years if Senior level) in a similar environment. Understand the principles of water and sewage treatment. 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.