EICA Principal Engineer

EICA Principal Engineer - (Wastewater Treatment Projects) The Role

As the EICA Principal Engineer for Glanua UK, you will hold ultimate accountability for all electrical, instrumentation, control and automation design delivered by Glanua across the UK. You will provide technical leadership, design governance, and delivery assurance across EICA disciplines within water and wastewater infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects, ensuring design excellence from concept through to commissioning.

You will play a key role in supporting project delivery teams, ensuring compliance with technical standards, promoting innovation, and maintaining safety, sustainability and quality across all EICA engineering activities. As the UK’s most senior EICA engineer, you are the named accountable person for all EICA design outputs produced in-house and by specialist subconsultants or subcontractors.

This position sits at the forefront of project design development and delivery, working collaboratively with internal design teams, clients, contractors, and key stakeholders to deliver efficient, cost-effective and sustainable engineering solutions.

You will report to the Group Head of Engineering on a functional basis and be accountable to the UK Operations Director from a delivery standpoint. You will also be a key member of the UK Management team.

• Hold full accountability for all EICA design delivered by Glanua UK, whether produced in-house or by external design partners, ensuring outputs meet the required technical, safety and regulatory standards.
• Provide technical assurance and governance for all EICA works, ensuring compliance with specifications, standards (WIMES, BS EN, IEC), and company procedures.
• Oversee and review designs, calculations, specifications, datasheets, cause and effect diagrams, and drawings for EICA systems, acting as approver and design authority as required.
• Ensure design solutions are practical, safe, buildable, and aligned with operational and maintenance requirements.
• Promote design standardisation, modularisation, and off‑site manufacture to enhance efficiency and safety.
• Develop and implement standard procedures and systems within your discipline to ensure teams are working efficiently. Strive for continuous improvement by challenging and improving existing procedures, as necessary.
• Develop a clear strategy for your remit by developing a UK EICA strategy plan. Within this, team members’ responsibilities need to be clearly defined and interfaces with other design disciplines clarified.
• Develop and build relationships with key supply chain stakeholders to ensure all workload capacities are satisfied.
• Ensure all designs are developed in line with CDM, DSEAR, and functional safety requirements. Act as the competent person and design authority for DSEAR assessments and functional safety lifecycle management, including SIL determination and Safety Instrumented System (SIS) design in accordance with IEC 61508/61511.
• Maintain accountability for all in-house and external EICA design outputs, including electrical design packages, ICA specifications, control system architectures, and functional safety documentation.

• Manage and motivate a team of engineers, designers, and technicians to deliver high‑quality work to defined deadlines and budgets.
• Allocate resources effectively across projects, balancing workload, priorities, and team capacity.
• Conduct regular progress reviews, ensuring technical delivery is aligned with project schedules and milestone requirements.
• Provide mentorship, technical guidance, and performance feedback to the engineering team.
• Foster a proactive culture of accountability, collaboration, and professional development within the EICA discipline team.
• Manage workload by maintaining a 4‑week look‑ahead programme that can be circulated weekly to all team members.
• Provide a monthly performance report on key performance indicators of the function.
• Ensure all line managers in your team conduct 1‑2‑1 meetings on a monthly basis with team members.
• Ensure Learning & Development Plans are in place for all…