Design MEICA Engineer

Elvet Recruitment are currently recruiting on behalf of a known main contractor, for a MEICA Design Engineer in Wakefield to work across a water framework. This companyworks with clients ranging from Private developers, local authorities, water companies and blue chip organisations to deliver projects whilst maintaining excellent relationships with their clients.

Duties Include:

• Performing and coordinating internal and external activities associated with MEICA for drainage/waste treatment design, in line with client, specifications and design standards.
• Design duties will include preparation of design solutions at various stages of a project; preparation of drawings, reports, specifications, and estimates; document management; attendance at meetings and checking the work of other team members to ensure accuracy.
• Collaborating with a wide range of discipline inputs; monitoring and protecting our client relationships; assisting with planning and programming; commercial management and presenting projects for audit.
• Attend Engineering Expos and implement the very latest technologies in the Industry, staying up to date with developments.
• Maintaining on-going communication with relevant Team Leaders / Senior Managers and clients when required to ensure effective communications on matters relevant to the project.
• Contributing to the resolution of technical issues on projects and providing technical guidance to other team members, such as junior engineers, technicians, and apprentices.
• Working in collaboration with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design.
• Being familiar with, and compliant with, relevant Health & Safety regulations and to promote a culture of awareness within the team.
• Maintain quality and environmental control procedures in accordance with ISO 9001and ISO 14001.
• Create and maintain good relations with clients, design teams and neighbours as well as any other stakeholders.

Personal attributes:

• Be a qualified Engineer and ideally chartered or a member of a relevant institution E.g. ImechE/CEng/IET
• Have suitable civil design experience, inc. drainage, gained through working on infrastructure projects within the UK water sector.
• Have knowledge of the UK Water Industry and Sewer Sector Guidance standards for drainage design.
• Have expertise in software design methods such as, AutoCAD and knowledge of integration with BIM models would be desirable.
• Be technically competent in fundamental asset design principles and ability to apply manual calculation methods where software methods are not available.
• Have excellent soft skills.
• Have a full UK driving license.