Process Senior Design Engineer

Job Description

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Galliford Try is one of the UK's most formidable construction businesses with an enviable track record of delivering schemes that strive to provide positive, lasting change for the communities we work in. As a FTSE 250 organisation, we turnover £1.9 billion and employ over 3500 people across three very successful Divisions;
Building, Infrastructure and Specialist Services. As one of the UK's top principal contractors you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment.

Following various acquisitions, we are now the largest Tier 1 Contractor operating in the UK Water / Environment sector with a long-term portfolio trading £500 million a year. As part of our 2030 Strategy we have bought together all aspects of Engineering Design under one Business Unit which is expanding to provide in-house design support to our various Regional Business Units across the UK.

As Senior Design Engineer you will be an important member of the Engineering Design Team and will be required to work with the Principal Engineer(s), Design Team, Design Manager(s) and Design Leads to deliver design to the highest quality to GT process and in compliance with the BMS and H&S Regulations. This is a technical role, engaged directly on projects, which requires competency in technical design delivery in the water and wastewater industry.

The Senior Design Engineer can have line management responsibility for design engineers of the same discipline, plus non-discipline design engineers/others if required.

As well as providing direction and assisting with innovations, you will be expected to contribute to the engineering governance of your discipline design activities, ensuring that design integrates with the other discipline design production activities, providing technical support to the supply chain procurement activities and supporting site activities as required. You will also be expected to support the Discipline Manager and Principal Engineer(s) for knowledge sharing and development of the discipline engineers, including mentoring and support of early careers.

• Provide technical compliance and quality on design outputs. Default checker for design outputs to ensure technical assurance and quality control.
• Operate as discipline lead for a project.
• Seek optimal solutions/efficient designs that balance capital and operational cost benefits.
• Design for buildability, safe construction, and operation, working alongside project delivery peers.
• Assist in ensuring procedural governance is adhered to.
• Working as part of the Design team to ensure scheme designs adhere to client specifications and standards.
• Working as part of the Design team to ensure full compliance with relevant Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation.
• Promoting innovation, value engineering and digital design.
• Technical problem solving throughout the project life cycle (e.g. from concept design through to final construction support), moreover, to ensure that potential issues are identified, mitigated and or safely managed through technical governance and risk and opportunity management.
• Assist with pre-contract design activities.
• Provide lessons learnt on projects to the Design Team and Discipline Design Manager(s), covering good and bad to feedback to be promoted or avoided on future schemes.
• Line Management of multi-disciplinary Design Engineers.
• Sharing and imparting knowledge to our teams, this is essential, as is the need to mentor and develop our expanding design team.
• Developing and supporting staff to encourage them towards accreditation with professional bodies (e.g., ICE, IET, IMechE, IChemE).

• Competent at carrying out Process Calculations, Mass Balances, Heat Balances and Hydraulic Calculations.
• Competent at preparing Process Block Diagrams, PFDs and P&IDs.
• Competent at developing Process Control Philosophies and Process Commissioning Plans.
• HAZOP leadership experience desirable.
• DSEAR experience desirable.
• Educated to Degree level in Engineering or other equivalent qualification.
• Preference for Chartered Member of a recognised professional Engineering body.
• Competent in a contracting / consulting environment, with commercial awareness.
• Competent with strong experience in checking & approving discipline design packages.
• Knowledge of current H&S legislation and British Standards and experience in applying them across designs.
• Excellent Communication and Stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent IT skills - with experience of using Excel, Outlook,…