Principal Civil Engineer – Wastewater treatment

Advance Training and Recruitment Services seeks a Principal Civil Engineer for wastewater projects in Coventry or Derby, offering a salary of £75,000 – £80,000 plus benefits. The role involves leading technical aspects of design, mentoring team members, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and driving innovation in wastewater treatment solutions. Hybrid working is available, providing flexibility in work location.
Job Role: Principal Civil Engineer – Wastewater projects

Salary: £75,000 – £80,000 + package depending on level of experience

Location: Coventry or Derby (Hybrid working available)

If you are a Principal Civil Engineer looking for a new challenge, I want to hear from you!

This is a brilliant opportunity to join our client’s Capital and Commercial Services team as a Principal Engineer in the Wastewater Team. They are investing a huge amount into waste treatment over the next five years, making a big difference to the environment and surrounding communities.

About the role:
• To stand as the technical authority and so lead on all technical aspects of optioneering and design for a variety of waste treatment projects, driving innovative, efficient, environment friendly, safe to build and operate with least whole life cost solutions.
• To provide technical support to the Waste Treatment Core Design Team and play a key role in developing the technical capability of team members through coaching, mentoring and supporting the Design Managers and Business Leads to identify development opportunities for individual designers.
• To supervise the creation of designs and specifications for wastewater treatment projects which include consideration of health & safety; environment; buildability; customer impact; third party constraints/permissions/approvals; commissioning; operation and maintenance; appropriate legislation and regulations.
• Identify and review deviations from our client’s standards and support the Project Management Team in taking these deviations to the relevant standards owners or Standards Approval Board for approval.
• Ensure our client’s H&S standards are adhered to in relation to the design, in particular standards relating to functional safety, HazOp, HazCon, DSEAR and the CDM Regs.
• Communicate lessons learned from the project to the wider business and develop younger and less experienced engineers working on the programme of work, driving innovation and develop new approaches and solutions
• Establish network of internal and external stakeholders across your discipline to capture learnings, understand innovation and best practice and build into the plans for Capital Design technical standards.

About you:
• UK experience with the design of clean and wastewater projects.
• Civil Degree qualified (or equivalent) Engineer
• Ideally be chartered, or a member of a relevant engineering institution e.g. ICE.
• A passion for solving engineering problems, the ability to lead and inspire, and the confidence to drive through challenging solutions.

Benefits package:
• 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 per annum based on company performance)
• Leading pension scheme – double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
• Sharesave
• Dedicated training and development with ‘Academy’
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
• Family friendly policies
• Two volunteering days per year

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please reach out to Charlie Knight @ Advance TRS.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.