Principle Designer

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

**Where will you be working?**

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.

Want to be a part of it?

**About the role**

As our Principle Designer you're appointed by the client to take responsibility and accountability of signing off pre construction information. You'll influence how risks to health and safety are managed throughout a project and support sound design of solutions to remove risk.

You'll be providing & modifying Design for Construction teams, Contractors & the Client. You need to be able to understand issues in any part of the water sector asset base. Collaborate to communicate clearly a workable outcome for others to construct.

You'll be required to research and discover problems, develop insight and then provide a focused definition. You will develop, explore and create potential solutions, before testing, listening and receiving feedback to find a solution.

You'll need to take account of any pre-construction information, eliminate foreseeable health and safety risks to anyone affected by the project. Take steps to reduce or control any risks that cannot be eliminated. You must be able to demonstrate you have the skills, knowledge, experience and the organisational capability, to carry out the work.

The role needs you to be free thinking, challenging, engaged and self motivated to continuously develop your level of technical expertise. Bringing innovation into the business and questioning established thought is a key part of the role.

Site visits are a requirement, as is travel throughout the region.

**What you’ll bring**

Degree in relevant technical field
Membership of relevant professional body
Professional experience as a designer in the construction industry

**What’s in it for you?**

**We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;**
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme

**In addition, this role offers;**
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Personal Accident Cover

**About us**

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re **responsible**and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re **open** and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re **together**and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re **ambitious**and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

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