Principal Mechanical Engineer

Location:

Preferred Northwest of England or Yorkshire. Remote working with frequent office and client sites visits.

What this role requires:

• A general understanding of water and sewage treatment processes and the associated equipment/system requirements.
• Experience in drainage design including Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDS).
• Knowledge of industry standard drainage networks design.
• Competence in the use of AutoCAD
• Proven track record in coordinating and delivering technically excellent projects on time and to budget.
• First class written and oral communication skills.
• A natural curiosity for developing innovative, sustainable and cost-effective solutions for our clients.
• Experience of team working on multi-disciplinary projects.
• Sound commercial understanding.
• Team builder, developing the technical excellence of our team.
• Able to develop and motivate others.
• Proven record of developing client relationships.
• Attained or working towards relevant professional qualification.

Qualifications

Personal qualities:

The engineering services we offer to our clients require us to be able to deliver in an agile way. The following are therefore examples of the type of skills and qualities we need you to have or be working towards:

• Recognition that satisfying the customer is the key to achieving other objectives, and that customers include everyone receiving benefits from our processes, whether end-users or other departments within the company.
• Ability to work remotely whilst successfully achieving deliverable-based outcomes through a virtual team.
• Ability to prioritise a varied workload and demonstrate good time management to comply with deadlines.
• Organised, structured and professional, with a passion for excellence.
• Encouraging and motivating those around you to work to your own high standards of quality and compliance.
• Desire for continual learning and drive to improve those around you by sharing information, lessons learnt and best practice.
• Being driven to push yourself and work outside of your comfort zone when the need arises with a “can do” attitude, willingness to work through problems and make decisions.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Trustworthy and ethical approach, exercising discretion where required.

Desirable Skills/Attributes

• Undertaking Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA).
• Undertaking Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Assessments.
• Undertaking DSEAR assessments.
• HVAC.