The Opportunity

Our client provides a range of services to major Water Utility companies throughout the UK and Ireland, including planning, design, manufacture, through to installation and commissioning. Increased work load has created a new opportunity for an experienced Head of Engineering.

The Role

• Production of Designs and manufacturing Drawings and all relevant calculations
• Have a sound working knowledge of BS EN 1090
• Provide guidance and authority on design, production methods and use of software (primarily Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD).
• Staff management, organization and delegation of projects within the engineering departmental resource and pre-production engineers, in recognition of differing skill sets.
• Promote the appropriate training and CPD of the Engineering department team members.
• Monitoring and upholding the standards of drawing work produced, covering proposals, detailed designs and production drawings.
• Ensuring suitable time is both allocated to and taken by drawing office team members for tasks.
• Ensuring Engineering Department team members are aware of scheme specific design and budget constraints.
• Supporting product qualification and approvals.
• Develop and implement policies, standards and procedures for the design and engineering dept.
• Direct, review, and approve product design and changes.
• Work closely with all manufacturing dept, ensuring document control is maintained and that manufacturing procedures are practical and easy to follow.
• Act as a designer and/or draughtsperson on schemes as required.

The Person

• Experience in mechanical engineering of water-related structure/products and experience in the design and production of equipment in stainless steel sheet and pipework would be highly desirable.
• A high level of experience with AutoDesk Inventor is essential, experience AutoDesk AutoCAD with Solidworks, BySoft, Navisworks and AutoDesk Plant 3D is also beneficial but not essential.
• Experience in people management will be essential as is a thorough competency with Microsoft office suite software.
• Relevant degree and associated chartership (CEng) desirable.

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