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Principal Engineer / Technical Lead
Job Posted: 18 days ago
Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Manchester
Expire in: 9 days
Job Description
Principal Engineer / Technical Lead (Water)
Location: UK (Hybrid), Manchester
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £90,000 + Benefits
Why This Role Stands Out
- Key technical leadership role across major water projects
- Strong pipeline of long-term asset management programme work
- Opportunity to influence standards and design quality
- Blend of technical delivery, governance, and mentoring
- Senior position with real impact on engineering capability
Key Responsibilities
- Overseeing design outputs to ensure safety, quality, and compliance
- Reviewing and approving technical deliverables, reports, and specifications
- Developing efficient design solutions based on scope and site inputs
- Providing technical leadership to engineers, technicians, and graduates
- Ensuring designs align with industry standards and client requirements
- Managing and recording design changes across project lifecycles
- Supporting planning and estimating of design activities
- Attending and contributing to technical review meetings and workshops
- Interpreting and implementing engineering standards and updates
- Acting as a technical authority across projects and supporting tenders
Requirements
- Strong background in design engineering within the UK water sector
- Experience across clean water and wastewater projects
- Experience delivering both outline and detailed design
- Understanding of infrastructure and non-infrastructure schemes
- Experience with hydraulic calculations and system profiling
- Chartered Engineer (or working towards)
- Strong technical, leadership, and problem-solving capability
- Experience mentoring and developing junior engineers
- Degree, HND, or equivalent experience
- Full UK driving licence
This is a fantastic chance for an experienced engineer ready to step into a senior technical leadership role with major impact on design quality and long-term project delivery in the water sector. Apply now to take your career to the next levelBefore You Apply
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