Design Manager - Water Recycling West Storm Overflow

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About The Role

We are looking to strengthen our engineering team with a Design Manger at our @One Alliance, Peterborough office with hybrid working available. You will Lead an engineering team to deliver design solutions for a programme of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and sewage treatment works storm overflows, within the west of the Anglian Water region.

The East of England has unique rivers, wetlands and coastlines, yet it is classified as severely water stressed and faces drought and a degrading natural environment. This is due to a combination of a growing economy, the highest rate of new housing development in the UK, climate change and being a major agricultural producer.

Anglian Water's purpose is to bring environmental and social prosperity to the East of England, through our commitment to Love Every Drop. We have an ambitious £9bn 5-year capital investment programme that will provide safe and resilient water supplies, permit sustainable growth, provide climate change resilience, and protect and improve the natural environment. To improve the protection to our natural environment, water ecosystems and customers, we have an ambitious sewage storm overflow discharge reduction plan. This forms part of our Water Industry National Environmental Programme (WINEP) obligations. It comprises a programme of reducing discharges from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and sewage treatment works storm overflows, using a mixture of conventional engineered solutions and nature-based solutions.

As part of the role you will:

• Be part of the @one alliance - one of the most successful, award-winning and progressive water sector capital delivery organisations.
• Deliver a programme of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and sewage treatment works storm overflows, with an approximate value of £100M.
• Work collaboratively with the Water Recycling West Treatment Design Managers to develop holistic catchment (systems) based solutions. which prioritise addressing catchment / network issues and consider the impacts to the receiving water recycling treatment works.
• Develop new ways of working and solutions that focus on delivering outcomes, rather than outputs, to reduce carbon and increase efficiency, using the PAS 2080 hierarchy:
  • Avoid - optimise current systems and assets, such as sewer relining and pumping station operations.
  • Switch - nature-based solutions and sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) to remove surface water from the combined sewers.
  • Improve - conventional engineered solutions, such as attenuation tanks.
• Be technically proficient in the design of solutions and leading your engineering team.
• Manage the Water Recycling (sewage) West Storm Overflow design team in delivering all catchment and pipeline related solutions within this programme area.
• Lead the development, implementation and management of Engineering Project Plans to control scope, programme, cost, risk and resources.
• In collaboration with the Discipline Lead Engineers, provide direction on suitable design methods for undertaking engineering design tasks.
• Using the principle of best for task, assess the complexity of your portfolio projects and assign suitably competent engineering resources to projects.
• Collaborate with the Lead Discipline Engineers and BIM Programme Manager to implement design quality procedures and monitor adherence to achieve a right first-time philosophy.
• Supplier and subcontractor design input - support the engagement, selection, contracting, management and integration of designs for your portfolio.
• End users - support your team to produce acceptable designs with consideration of health & safety, the environment, construction, procurement, the customer, and Anglian Water Operations.
• Lead and conduct portfolio engineering design meetings and hold team members to account.

About You

Essential

• An engineering, or equivalent, degree.
• Experience of wastewater (sewage) assets, including the design of gravity sewers; foul rising mains; pumping station; attenuation tanks and the variety of associated construction techniques.
• Preferably chartered, or working towards, chartered status.
• Preferable experience of water-sector assets and capital projects.
• Id Integrity - fosters within their team compliance with the organisation's business ethics, a respectful attitude to others, positive action to build our reputation, and integrity.
• Communication & Collaboration - challenges and addresses poor collaboration and promotes effective communication to all stakeholders.
• Emotional intelligence - demonstrates leadership with emotional intelligence by understanding the needs and views of others.
• Champions diversity and inclusion.
• Development and learning - comprehensive understanding of the development and learning needs within the team and actively defines training plans to address competency gaps.
• Able to make decisions - provides support and guidance to others for making complex decisions

About Us

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1,000 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need adiverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed. Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills.

As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace. We don't just tick boxes; we live these values every day.

What MWH offer

Packages include -

• A competitive salary
• Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent)
• Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)
• Contribution Pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Health Insurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• And many more benefits including - cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc