Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Water Industry

RPS; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in the UK is looking for a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer for its Water Consultancy team. In this mid-senior level role, you will work on significant projects within the water industry, managing design outputs and collaborating with various stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have extensive water industry experience, a degree in mechanical engineering, and strong communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary and flexible working options.

Benefits

Personal development plan

Flexible work-life balance

Agile office environment

Qualifications

• Experience in liaising with clients and developing project plans.
• Ability to produce technical outputs and deliver design solutions.
• Understanding of water and wastewater treatment processes.

Responsibilities

• Balance workload across various projects.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to junior staff.
• Prepare mechanical design deliverables including calculations and specifications.
• Act as project manager or design team leader as required.

Skills

Technical understanding of mechanical engineering principles

Water industry experience

Proficient in pump selection

Using P&IDs

Producing technical documentation

Managing work to time, cost, and quality

Knowledge of design tools like AutoCAD

Education

Degree in mechanical engineering or closely allied subject

Tools

AutoCAD

Inventor

Job description

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer – Water Industry

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We are currently in the market to recruit a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to join our dynamic and growing Water Consultancy team operating across the UK. You'll work on exciting AMP8 and AMP9 projects, ensuring exceptional water services in a collaborative environment.

RPS (now part of Tetra Tech) is actively engaged in several long‑term wastewater programmes across the UK water industry, helping our clients address major pollution and flooding challenges. Our wastewater consulting team undertakes a broad range of projects including urban drainage and water quality modelling studies, WINEP, SOAF, DWMPs and catchment investment planning, and the development of engineering solutions from feasibility through to outline and detailed design.

About The Team

RPS Water Consulting is a team of engineers, designers, modellers and data analysts providing asset management and operational strategy development to our water industry clients. This is an evolving industry, providing challenges and opportunities that require innovation, dedication and teamwork to help us meet our clients’ needs.

About You

• You will be experienced in liaising with clients to understand their needs, interpret their data, and develop a project plan. You'll coordinate multidisciplinary teams to ensure the project as a whole meets its goals.
• You will be experienced in producing technical outputs such as technical specifications, schedules and reports, sizing and designing pumping systems and aeration systems, and be familiar with collaborative planning reviews and designs of solutions.
• You will provide engineering inputs and design outputs in collaboration with other disciplines, producing general arrangement drawings, 3D models, 2D plans and sections, and piping & instrumentation diagrams.
• You will have strong communication skills and be able to deliver technical presentations to clients and other design engineers, as well as inputting into collaborative design discussions including technical workshops and safety reviews such as HAZOPs and ALMs.
• You will understand how water and wastewater treatment processes operate and be experienced in assessing existing site infrastructure to develop and deliver the mechanical design.
• By joining us, you'll be working on exciting projects, collaborating with leading minds, making a meaningful impact on millions of lives in the UK, and leaving a legacy for future generations.

Your Responsibilities

• Balance your workload across a wide variety of projects from a range of major long‑term frameworks with water companies and contractors across the UK.
• Seek to achieve positive outcomes for projects and the community.
• Work closely with other senior and principal engineers and other stakeholders supporting project delivery.
• Help develop the wider team by acting as a mentor and guide to less experienced members, checking their work and providing technical governance and oversight.
• Interpret and understand technical drawings and supervise their production, ideally through AutoCAD and/or Inventor experience.
• Undertake asset condition surveys and prepare reports and recommendations.
• Contribute to the production of process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs).
• Prepare mechanical design deliverables including calculations, reports, specifications, datasheets, drawings, schedules, and procurement documentation.
• Provide support to allow the project team to comply with the duties of Designer under CDM, including through the production of design risk assessments.
• Ensure quality assurance systems and procedures are followed, and that high standards are maintained.
• Act as a project manager, package manager or design team leader as required.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• A good technical understanding of mechanical engineering principles.
• Significant water industry experience.
• Proficient in pump selection and the design of pumping systems.
• Using P&IDs to create equipment, valve and pipe schedules.
• Producing specifications, reports and technical documentation.
• Complying with the Construction, Design & Management (CDM) Regulations and designing for safety.
• Experience with various contract procurement methods, ideally including NEC forms of contract.
• Managing your work to time, cost and quality criteria.
• Supporting junior staff in their technical and personal development.
• The ability to travel and visit operational and construction sites as required, and to survey, inspect and witness test mechanical equipment and installations.
• Knowledge of design tools and software such as AutoCAD or similar would be an advantage but not essential.

Qualifications

• A degree‑level qualification in mechanical engineering or a closely‑allied subject, ideally IMechE‑accredited. Post‑graduate qualifications are an advantage.
• Chartered engineer or working towards and nearing chartership.

What’s in it for you?

• A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway.
• A diverse community that values different ideas, perspectives and styles of thinking.
• Flexibility and a work‑life balance, with agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard.

Why RPS?

We’re a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly and empower our people to create a work‑life balance that’s right for them.

RPS, a Tetra Tech Company

On 24 January 2023, RPS became part of Tetra Tech. With 27,000 employees in more than 550 offices, we are a global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer market‑leading development and project opportunities.

Come and join our team and truly make a difference in the future of water!

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Business Consulting and Services