Kier Group
Mechanical Principal Engineer
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Principal Engineer (Mechanical)
Location
Kier Water Division, national remit
Hours
Full-time - some flexibility on hours available if desired.
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About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to provide senior mechanical engineering guidance, independent assurance and specialist support to our Water framework teams. You'll play a key role in strengthening mechanical governance, quality and technical consistency while supporting local teams across the country. Working on a proportionate, risk-based approach, you'll focus on significant mechanical risks, assurance priorities, escalations and complex technical issues.
Responsibilities
As a Principal Engineer (Mechanical), you'll be working within the Mechanical Assurance, Governance and Framework Support Team, supporting them in delivering mechanical engineering excellence and assurance across our Water Frameworks. Your day to day will include:
- Providing principal-level mechanical advice, assurance and constructive challenges to Framework teams
- Supporting teams with complex or escalated mechanical design, installation, testing and commissioning matters
- Conducting risk-based assurance through targeted reviews, audits and technical health checks
- Leading the Mechanical Working Group to drive governance, lessons learned and continuous improvement
- Mentoring and supporting mechanical engineers and Authorising Engineers to build capability and consistency
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Requirements
This role of Principal Engineer (Mechanical) is great for you if:
- You hold a degree, higher technical qualification or equivalent demonstrable competence in mechanical engineering
- You have extensive mechanical engineering experience within the water, wastewater or similar industry
- You possess strong knowledge of mechanical governance, assurance, quality management and relevant industry standards
- You have proven experience resolving complex mechanical issues and influencing across functions
- You demonstrate sound engineering judgement, independent assurance skills and the ability to provide constructive challenge
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We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards And Benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and Inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
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