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Job Description\n\n

Note for Recruitment Agencies:\n\n

We prefer to hire directly and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.\n\n

We do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. If speculative CVs are sent, no fee will be applicable – please direct all queries to the relevant Resourcing Partner.\n\n

Mechanical Senior Design Engineer - (Water Sector)\n\n

Can be based anywhere in the UK\n\n

What you will be doing:\n\n

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:\n\n

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). \n\n

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). \n\n

About You:\n\n

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. \n\n

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. \n\n

What We Can Offer in Return:\n\n

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. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.

We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our ‘Be Well’ programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.

We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.

Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when you feel valued and engaged.

Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where and how you work. Where appropriate, site and office-based employees can take advantage of a wide variety of working practices, offering different amounts of structure, regularity and flexibility to suit your needs as well as those of your wider team.

Our benefits:\n\n

We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that by offering a comprehensive range of attractive options to help support your career on top of a competitive salary.

Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidaysA wide range of corporate discountsCycle to Work schemesComprehensive pension planRegular Save as You Earn share purchase schemePrivate medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need itPaid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role\n\n

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\n\n

About us:\n\n

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.

Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.

We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.

Additional Information:\n\n

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.

We encourage you and would be grateful if you could confirm any requirements, we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.

Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. 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.

About The Team\n\n

Central Engineering Services is an in-house team providing engineering capability to the wider business. Acting as an internal consultant providing a high-quality service, the Central Engineering Services team deliver alternative solutions, value engineering, buildability and problem/defect resolution including specification compliance issues. The team also provides design and design checking services for a full range of temporary works requirements from excavations and working platforms to formwork, falsework & scaffolding.

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