Senior Principal EICA Engineer - Water / Wastewater
HybridBristol, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Provide senior technical leadership for the UK water/wastewater treatment design team, acting as discipline lead or sub-lead across feasibility, optioneering, design, construction support, commissioning, and handover. Set and maintain discipline design standards, checking requirements, design risk processes, and quality expectations while leading complex deliverables and multidisciplinary interfaces. Drive integrated Process, Mechanical, EICA, MEP, and civil/structural coordination to deliver efficient, buildable solutions. Lead senior client engagement, technical workshops, design reviews, and value engineering. Embed modern delivery approaches including digital design, simulation, automation, and data-led decision making. Support project directors with technical risk, scope, resourcing, programme, budget, and change control. Build and develop the discipline sub-team through recruitment, mentoring, line management, and succession planning. Support business planning, work winning, client development, and bid strategy to expand Egis' UK water/wastewater treatment capability.
Required Qualifications
- BEng/MEng or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline
- Chartered Engineer or Incorporated Engineer status with a relevant professional institution
- 10–12+ years' relevant experience, including significant UK water/wastewater treatment, utilities, process, energy or infrastructure design experience
- Proven track record leading discipline design and technical assurance on complex multidisciplinary projects
- Strong understanding of UK regulated water sector drivers, water company asset standards, CDM 2015, safety-by-design, environmental/regulatory requirements and common delivery models
- Deep technical expertise in the relevant discipline, with ability to guide, review and approve complex engineering decisions
- Demonstrable experience developing people, including mentoring, line management, technical coaching, recruitment or resource planning
- Strong client and stakeholder management skills, with credibility to lead senior technical conversations and influence project direction
- Strong commercial and delivery awareness, including scope development, fee estimating, programme/resource planning, risk management and change control
- Strong digital and innovation mindset, with experience embedding improved tools, data workflows, simulation, automation, BIM/MEP coordination or standardised delivery approaches
- Right to work in the UK
Desired Qualifications
- Experience as discipline lead, design manager, technical director, associate-level lead or sub-team lead within consultancy, contractor, water company, technology provider or engineering business
- Strong UK water sector client network and experience supporting account growth, opportunity shaping, bid leadership and work winning
- Experience developing services around digital treatment design, process optimisation, operational intelligence, smart assets, energy/carbon reduction, modular/offsite solutions or MEP-led delivery
- Experience leading technical governance, communities of practice, design standards, QA frameworks or delivery improvement initiatives
- Experience building teams during growth phases, including skills mapping, capability planning and creation of a positive, delivery-focused culture
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