Mechanical Design Manager - Water Job Glasgow area,Scotland UK,Engineering

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

Do you want to be a part of a growing M&E team? Can you collaborate with colleagues across UK and International projects? Are you an experienced Mechanical Engineering Manager working within the UK water sector? Then, this could be the next adventure in your career.

To further expand our capability in delivering water sector MEP projects, we are looking for an experienced Mechanical Design Manager to join us. You will use your experience to oversee the delivery of our Water projects to time and budget. Your role will be focused on the design environment, which while based in the UK, will involve day-to-day interaction with colleagues across our global hubs.

Your

key responsibilities will be:

Leading and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to deliver water sector project work to agreed quality, time and budget requirements
Using your mechanical delivery experience to provide an effective technical gatekeeping role on delivery quality in recognition of client requirements. Ensuring compliance with standards relevant to the UK water industry
Communicating with clients and other stakeholders including ensuring requirements are understood and documented and feeding this back into the project team's approach
Effectively handling project risk using contractual processes and escalating matters as appropriate. Managing scope and change control effectively, professionally challenging requests when the need arises
Mentoring team members in mechanical design development

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll have:

A degree in mechanical engineering
Membership of a recognised professional institution
Chartered Engineer status or equivalent
Demonstrable inter-personal Client facing skills and experience leading multi-disciplinary teams
Experience programming design activities with other disciplines
A solid understanding of water-based systems such as pressurised water supply mains, pumping stations and treatment works apparatus
Experience with hydraulic modelling of pipe networks, steady state and transient analysis calculations
Knowledgeable on pipe support and stress calculations
Broad experience in mechanical system design for the UK water sector. Experience in developing control philosophies
Experienced in 3D and BIM delivery
Knowledge of relevant Water Industry Specifications (WIMES)
Experience of applying CDM
2015 regulations to design tasks

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity - and sometimes even our courage - to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarilylocatedin the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring theirexpertisein engineering, architecture,energyand environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include:

28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents
Flexible and hybrid working conditions
Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of…