Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This Assistant Design Engineer role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
What will you be doing?
As part of the prestigious Southern Water contract, you will work under the supervision of a Lead Designer, managing and coordinating all activities and tasks within batch or scheme contracts to ensure the design of schemes/solutions within Pre-Tender, Investigation, Design, Construction and Completion stages.
You will also ensure work is carried out in a productive and timely manner, maintaining a focus on minimising risk in all functions of Safety, Health, Environmental, Quality and Commercial aspects, having a focus on good customer service and creating long-lasting relationships with clients to encourage profitable repeat business to meet the MGW corporate objectives.
A key element of the Assistant Design Engineer role will be to produce design drawings and construction packages to reflect the work that is to be delivered in accordance with the relevant Engineering Specification and all relevant Asset Standards or equivalent to the specific contract.
Additional responsibilities:
- Deliver investigation, design, construction and project completion activities in line with client requirements, company standards, national regulations and industry best practice.
- Prepare, maintain and manage all project documentation, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely completion of health & safety files and project records.
- Collaborate with internal teams, clients, contractors and external stakeholders to ensure efficient, cost-effective project delivery from design through to construction.
- Ensure full compliance with CDM regulations, health, safety and environmental standards, promoting sustainable and safe engineering solutions.
- Develop and implement innovative construction methods, materials and safe systems of work, while identifying opportunities for efficiencies and project outperformance.
- Provide technical support, reporting and customer-focused service, with strong attention to detail and effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
Want to be a part of it?
What you’ll bring
- Degree educated in Engineering OR relevant equivalent.
- Experience of using Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams.
- Ability to demonstrate initiative to work on your own and as part of a team.
- Have an understanding of or knowledge of water and wastewater systems including associated MEICAT equipment (desirable).
- Experience of using AutoCAD 2D or GIS or Revit software.
- Knowledge or understanding of CDM 2015 Regulations.
- Awareness of Process Safety.
- Good communication skills that can adapt to the audience (e.g. internal, clients, customers).
- Understanding of network modelling software and application per client.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice - our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- Private Healthcare – Single cover
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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