Onsite Principal Engineer – Mechanical

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About the role

  • Principal Design Engineer at Severn Trent delivering innovative plug and play designs in mechanical engineering. Leading quality assurance and collaboration with stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead on all technical aspects of opportunity assessment, feasibility, concept development and design for a variety of new infrastructure product and delivery process development projects.
  • Drive innovation into every programme of work, looking for cost efficient solutions to a range of problems considering the whole life cost, safety and environmental impact of all proposed solutions.
  • Lead on the Quality Assurance process for checking, reviewing, and approving the team’s in-house design deliverables.
  • Work with a range of key internal and external stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of solutions that meet the needs of the Customer, Key Stakeholders, and the regulatory requirements of OFWAT and the Environment Agency.
  • Carry out all the duties of a principal designer for prototype programmes within the mechanical engineering space.
  • Create functional design specifications including consideration of: mechanical engineering, CDM regulations, health & safety / buildability / commissioning / operations and maintenance / HAZOPS / appropriate legislation & regulations.
  • Ensure that appropriate mechanical advice is provided to the project team so that the standard solution has an effective handshake between Severn Trent Product Team and Site Design Teams to enable proper installation of products on site!

Requirements

  • Engineering experience within an R&D environment, probably with a background including mechanical engineering.
  • Extensive experience of developing new and innovative design solutions to a wide range of engineering problems.
  • Be able to demonstrate experience of proving the reliability and effectiveness of new solutions through robust test procedures.
  • Proven innovation of design to assist with the development of innovative solutions in the delivery of projects.
  • Experience of working to standards, codes and design manuals.
  • Strong coaching skills and experience of building capability within a Design team.
  • Extensive experience of influencing a disparate set of stakeholders to deliver design objectives.
  • Practice of managing a product life cycle.
  • Degree qualified or equivalent in a mechanical engineering discipline.

Benefits

  • 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
  • Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250, which is subject to eligibility)
  • Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
  • Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
  • Dedicated training and development with our Academy
  • Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
  • Family friendly policies
  • Two paid volunteering days per year

Job title

Principal Engineer – Mechanical

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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