Senior EICA Design Engineer

Description

Join Trant Engineering and help shape the delivery of complex, high-impact projects. Trant Engineering is a leading EPC contractor with a strong reputation for delivering innovative engineering solutions across the UK and internationally. With over 1,000 employees and a £150m turnover, we’re growing—and now looking for an experienced Senior EICA Design Engineer to play a key role in our project delivery teams.

30 October 2026

Electrical

Southampton

• Independently applies extensive and diverse knowledge of EICA engineering principles and practices across broad areas of assignments and related fields.
• Modifies or extends accepted theories and practices to complete complex assignments.
• Demonstrates professional attitudes such as creativity, curiosity, flexibility, and dependability.
• Actively promotes consideration of sustainability principles throughout the design lifecycle.
• Keeps informed of updates to standards, regulations, and best practices.

• Leads tasks and projects of moderately complex scope or major project components.
• Designs complete projects, systems, components, or processes.
• Develops EICA specifications, drawings, and other project documents.
• Reviews complete project documentation for compliance and quality assurance.
• Analyzes complex engineering projects to determine design requirements, uncertainties, and constraints.
• Formulates solutions for unconventional or challenging engineering problems.
• Assists upper-level management and staff as a technical specialist or advisor.

• Develops work plans with resource-loaded schedules, scopes, and budgets.
• Performs basic schedule analysis and assesses project risks.
• Reviews and monitors scopes, budgets, and schedules for assignments.
• Leads tasks on major projects or multiple projects of moderate scope with complex features.
• Proactively implements change management practices and assesses the commercial impact of decisions.

• Supervises all staff necessary to complete assignments.
• Mentors direct reports and other engineers, providing guidance and reviewing work outputs.
• Receives supervision and guidance on overall objectives, critical issues, and policy matters.
• Provides direction on unusual conditions and developments.

• Possesses advanced oral and written communication skills, including interpretation of complex technical and contractual language.
• Communicates professionally with colleagues, clients, and design partners.
• Leads project meetings and represents the organization in communications related to engineering assignments.
• Considers the needs of diverse project stakeholders and fosters inclusion.
• Sustains a team culture built around Trant's core values.
• Demonstrates empathy, critical listening, and effective conflict resolution skills.

Upholds and promotes the Company's Core Values – Care, Trust, Respect and Sustainability.

• Higher Education (NVQ+)

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related discipline (Master’s preferred).
• Incorporated/Chartered Membership of a Professional Engineering Institution
• CSCS Card or SHEA Water Qualification
• EUSR Water Hygiene Qualification Experience
  • Typically 7+ years of engineering experience, including project leadership and technical oversight.
  Why Join Trant

  At Trant Engineering, we deliver complex, high-value engineering and construction projects across the UK. From process and water treatment to energy infrastructure upgrades, we play a key role in delivering and protecting critical national infrastructure – shaping the systems that communities and…