Egis Group
Senior Principal EICA Engineer - Water / Wastewater
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Company Description
Water | Wastewater | Biosolids/Sludge | AMP 8 | SROs | MEP-Led Team
Shape the Future of Water Infrastructure with Egis
Location: London | Bristol | Manchester (Hybrid)
Focus Areas: Electrical/ EICA Engineering Design | UK-Wide | High-Growth Environment
Egis is expanding rapidly in the UK, backed by a global team of more than 23,500 experts across 70+ countries. We design and deliver intelligent, sustainable infrastructure to address climate challenges and strengthen community resilience. As part of our fast-growing UK Water team, you will join an agile environment where progression is quick, visibility is high, and your impact is immediate.
Job Description
About the Role
The UK water sector is entering a period of unprecedented investment and transformation. As Egis accelerates the growth of its Water Business in the UK, we are building a high-performing EICA Engineering team to help shape this next chapter.
We are inviting applicants who want to play a meaningful role in delivering major water and wastewater programmes. Working within a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment, you will contribute to technically robust, sustainable, and innovative treatment solutions across nationally significant projects.
This is a rare opportunity to join at a key stage of our UK growth journey, helping to establish, shape, and expand an EICA engineering capability built on Egis’ global infrastructure expertise and long-term commitment to the sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide senior technical leadership for the discipline within the UK water/wastewater treatment design team.
- Act as discipline lead, sub-lead, or senior technical authority on complex projects across feasibility, optioneering, design, construction support, commissioning, and handover.
- Set and maintain discipline design standards, checking requirements, design risk processes, digital workflows, and quality expectations.
- Lead and assure complex deliverables, key technical decisions, supplier packages, contractor submissions, and multidisciplinary interfaces.
- Drive integrated Process, Mechanical, EICA, MEP, civil/structural, construction, and operational coordination to deliver efficient, buildable, and maintainable solutions.
- Lead senior client engagement, technical workshops, design reviews, optioneering, and value engineering.
- Embed modern delivery approaches, including:
- Digital design
- Simulation
- Automation
- Standardisation
- Data-led decision making
- Supplier integration
- Support project directors and project managers with technical risk, scope, resourcing, programme, budget, change control, and design quality.
- Build and develop the discipline sub-team through:
- Recruitment
- Mentoring
- Line management
- Succession planning
- Professional development
- Support business planning, work winning, client development, bid strategy, and growth of Egis’ UK water/wastewater treatment capability.
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Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- BEng/MEng or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Chartered Engineer or Incorporated Engineer status with a relevant professional institution.
- Typically 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
- Common delivery models
- Deep technical expertise in the relevant discipline, with the 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
- Influence project direction
- Strong commercial and delivery awareness, including:
- Scope development
- Fee estimating
- Programme/resource planning
- Risk management
- Change control
- Strong digital and innovation mindset, with experience embedding:
- Improved tools
- Data workflows
- Simulation
- Automation
- BIM/MEP coordination
- Standardised delivery approaches
Desirable Skills / Knowledge
- Experience as a:
- Discipline lead
- Design manager
- Technical director
- Associate-level lead
- Sub-team lead within:
- Consultancy
- Contractor
- Water company
- Technology provider
- Engineering business
- Strong UK water sector client network and experience supporting:
- Account growth
- Opportunity shaping
- Bid leadership
- Work winning
- Experience developing services around:
- Digital treatment design
- Process optimisation
- Operational intelligence
- Smart assets
- Energy/carbon reduction
- Modular/offsite solutions
- MEP-led delivery
- Experience leading:
- Technical governance
- Communities of practice
- Design standards
- QA frameworks
- Delivery improvement initiatives
- Experience building teams during growth phases, including:
- Skills mapping
- Capability planning
- Creation of a positive, delivery-focused culture
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Additional Information
What’s in It for You?
- An exciting new growth role in a fast-organic growing UK business, with clear and accelerated career progression.
- Top Employers 2025 – Egis is recognised across four continents for excellence in HR practices, having won the prestigious Top Employer 2025 certification (Top Employers Institute, the global authority on people practices).
- A global leader in green infrastructure – We innovate across sustainable infrastructure, mobility, and energy, shaping the entire value chain and aspects of the built environment.
- Highly competitive leadership-level reward package.
- Hybrid and flexible working.
- 26+ days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Support for:
- Professional development
- Chartership
- Global mobility
- A supportive, inclusive culture driven by:
- Sustainability
- Long-term community impact
Ready to Lead?
Join Egis and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of sustainable water infrastructure across the UK.
Commitments
To Our Planet
In each project we design, engineer, and operate, we care deeply about the legacy we leave behind. As part of our team, you’ll have a unique opportunity to use your skills and expertise to shape a better future for communities in the UK, and globally.
- Sustainable-focused initiatives supported by the Egis Foundation.
- Equips projects that address climate challenges.
- Funds educational and social initiatives.
- Drives responsible and sustainable transformation.
Equal Opportunities
Egis is an Equal Opportunities employer and proactively strives to build a workforce that truly reflects the communities we represent. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of:
- Age
- Disability
- Gender
- Gender identity
- Gender expression
- Race
- Religion or belief
- Sexual orientation
- Socioeconomic background
- Any other protected characteristic
Application assessment is done purely based on:
- Experience
- Essential and desirable criteria
- Suitability for the role
We value each contribution to build an inclusive, listening, and respectful culture.
Business Line & Details
- Business Line: Energy and Sustainable Cities
- Service Line: Water Technical
- Region: Europe and Africa
- Job Family: Engineering Management
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