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 level