Costain Group
Principal Mechanical / Piping Designer - Water
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Principal Mechanical / Piping Designer – Water
Due to an increased engineering and design workload in the water sector to support AMP8 for multiple clients including United Utilities, Severn Trent, Thames Water, Southern Water, Northumbrian Water, and Yorkshire Water, Costain are seeking a Principal Mechanical / Piping Designer – Water to support and join our multi-discipline Engineering & Design Services Team based at Aviator Way, Manchester typically 3 days a week with a blended approach to flexible and home working to support wellbeing.
The ideal candidate will have significant experience and proven design capability specifically in water.
Key qualifications include:
- Leadership skills to effectively lead a team.
- Excellent CAD skills, particularly in Revit and AutoCAD.
This is a great opportunity to establish or develop a career in a technically challenging and highly rewarding growing sector which will support the UK’s water sector.
Responsibilities
As Principal Mechanical/Piping Designer you will be leading a team of designers, responsible for all aspects of plant layout and piping design within our water sector, using the very latest CAD and digital technology.
- Produce 3D models and detailed general arrangement drawings (GAs) using Revit.
- Develop layouts from first principles of wet and dry well pumping stations, concrete pump chambers, ductile iron and epoxy coated carbon steel pipework, and similar systems within the waste water industry.
- Coordinate and integrate vendor equipment packages into the design.
- Layout and model access platforms, stairs, handrails, and maintenance accessways in compliance with Client and Industry standards.
- Contribute to design reviews, including Access, Lifting and Maintenance reviews (ALMs).
- Collaborate with civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical disciplines to ensure coordinated and clash-free models.
- Checking and approval of other designers' work in accordance with Company Procedures.
- Review and commenting of vendor information to incorporate into the design.
- To liaise and coordinate with other disciplines as required.
- Attend internal and client meetings to discuss issues & progress etc.
- To plan for adequate resources and manhour usage reporting to the lead engineer, feeding into design progress reports, raising issues & highlighting scope change.
- Undertake site surveys as required.
- To offer advice and support to Junior Designers and/or subordinates on personal and career development.
- To assist the Manager of Piping Design as instructed in administration work within the group including but not necessarily limited to preparation of corporate procedures, standards, and specifications etc.
- With respect to software and day-to-day activities, report back to the Discipline Manager comments and recommendations for continuous improvements in performance and removal of constraints.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential
- A Principal Mechanical Designer (Water) is a designer with specific knowledge and experience within their specialist field and discipline. (i.e. SQEP’d – Suitably Qualified Experienced Person).
- A Principal Mechanical Designer - Water is capable of carrying out Lead Designer roles on a project or group of projects and may support the career development of fellow designers.
- Significant experience in their discipline or a closely related one.
- Proficiency in the delivery of piping and plant design across a number of work categories.
- Exceptional CAD skills including Revit & AutoCAD.
- Experienced in the production of relevant engineering deliverables including 3D models, General Arrangements, Pipe support details.
Desirable
- Experience in one or more of the following specialist mechanical design fields:
- Water treatment
- Waste water treatment
- Biosolids/sludge treatment
- Pumping systems
- Chemical storage and dosing.
- Experience with the following mechanical engineering and design deliverables and activities:
- Material Take offs.
- Engineering schedules, such as valve lists etc.
- Experience in managing and close out of ALM (model review) actions.
Qualifications
Essential
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
- Qualified to City & Guilds or HNC/HND minimum.
Desirable
- EngTech or I-Eng ICE professional qualification.
- Degree or equivalent.
About Costain
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation, and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising, and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation, or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading-edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Application Process
Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at the application phase.
We do share individual feedback following an interview.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that discloses they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal, and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details, please go to the Disability Confident website: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location