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Job Description
Mechanical Senior Design Engineer - (Water Sector)
Can be based anywhere in the UK
What you will be doing:
As Senior Design Engineer you will be an important member of the Engineering Design Team and will be required to work with the Principal Engineer(s), Design Team, Design Manager(s) and Design Leads to deliver design to the highest quality to GT process and in compliance with the BMS and H&S Regulations. This is a technical role, engaged directly on projects, which requires competency in technical design delivery in the water and wastewater industry. The Senior Design Engineer can have line management responsibility for design engineers and others as required.
As well as providing direction and assisting with innovations, you will be expected to contribute to the engineering governance of your discipline design activities, ensuring that design integrates with the other discipline design production activities, providing technical support to the supply chain procurement activities and supporting site activities as required. You will also be expected to support the Discipline Manager and Principal Engineer(s) for knowledge sharing and development of the discipline engineers, including mentoring and support of early careers.
Some Responsibilities Include:
* Provide technical compliance and quality on design outputs. Default checker for design outputs to ensure technical assurance and quality control.
* Seek optimal solutions/efficient designs that balance capital and operational cost benefits.
* Assist the Principal Designer Lead in ensuring CDM regulations compliance.
* Design for buildability, safe construction, and operation, working alongside project delivery peers.
* Assist in ensuring procedural governance is adhered to.
* Developing and supporting staff to encourage them towards accreditation with professional bodies (e.g., ICE, IET, IMechE, IChemE).
About You:
* Competent in a contracting / consulting environment, with commercial awareness.
* Educated to Degree level in Engineering or other equivalent qualification.
* Excellent knowledge of multi-disciplinary engineering design in water engineering.
* Demonstrable experience of + 7 years working within the Municipal Water and Wastewater Industries, working with a number of clients.
* Competent in reviewing subcontractors documentation.
* Preference for Chartered Member of a recognised professional Engineering body.
* Knowledge of current H&S legislation and British Standards.
* Experience of working in accordance with QA and H&S procedures.
What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £3.2 billion we are one of the industry's leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment.
Our benefits:
* Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
* A wide range of corporate discounts
* Cycle to Work schemes
* Comprehensive pension plan
* Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
* Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
* Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role
About us:
Named Contractor of the Year by the Water Industry Awards, Galliford Try is one of the UK's leading construction businesses with a vision to continuously be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, and/ or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
Don't meet every requirement of the role? At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
A full job description for this role is available upon request.
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