Lead Design Engineer

Huntingdon-Hybrid working

Salary - Circa £70k plus car allowance

Monday - Friday days

Your new role:

You will be joining a well-known UK water and wastewater treatment and manufacturing business who, through continuous growth, are looking for an Experienced Design Engineer within the water industry!

The Lead Design engineer will be responsible for the concept and development of a range of large scale and smaller scale projects. Working alongside a team of design engineers, project managers, process engineers and more.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Process design including calculations, equipment specifications, timelines etc.
• Creation of Plant layouts
• Develop design briefs, specifications, and scopes for specialist technologies, equipment suppliers, and installation work.
• Review and validate third-party design submissions (process partners, suppliers, subcontractors)
• Create BOM's and timelines for the use of all relevant partners, including supply chain, logistics, engineering teams and more.
• Promote proposal benefits and features and collaborate with customer engineering teams to build credibility and strong relationships.

This is just a summed-up list, and other duties will be required.

Skills & Experience required:

• Educated to a degree level, or a completed apprenticeship in a relevant subject, I.E. Mechanical engineering, process engineering or chemical engineering
• Experience in a similar design role within the industrial water industry
• Strong understanding of civil and MEICA engineering disciplines.
• Proven track record of delivering design packages for major projects.
• Experience working with projects north of £5m plus.

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