Sector‑leading UK water and wastewater design and delivery specialist with a 200‑year legacy.
Lead multidisciplinary design projects for water treatment, ensuring cost, safety, and quality.
14 days ago ago
Expert & Leadership (13+ years)
Full Time
Totton, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Company Size
1,000 Employees
Service Specialisms
Engineering
Operations
SHEQ
Graduates & Apprentices
Design and Build
Digital Delivery
Asset Performance
Procurement
Sector Specialisms
Water
Wastewater
Industrial Water
Water Treatment
Wastewater Treatment
Water Industry
Wet Infrastructure
Environmental
Role
Description
design delivery
design management
technical support
quality assurance
risk management
client liaison
To ensure that H&S hazards are identified and managed and that all residual risks are communicated effectively to all stakeholders.
Take all reasonable steps to ensure appropriate confidentiality.
To be accountable for the expenditure, drive efficiency and manage the overall outturn costs for design by producing design deliverables within the allocated resource hours and by key dates.
To recognise and provide exceptional customer service both internally and with partners and externally with the client, their customers, and the general public.
Maintain a positive and solution-oriented approach to work, providing open and honest feedback.
To attend and contribute to all relevant programme, project, and technical meetings.
Represent the whole of the MWH business and RSK Group of companies in all client contacts and promote the MWH / RSK reputation.
To organise all elements of design, documenting it in the Design Management Plan and preparing monthly status update reports as necessary.
To provide, where required, technical support during construction, assembly, and commissioning stages.
To ensure that all technical work is undertaken to the correct standards and specifications, following the appropriate systems of work and quality assurance.
To lead the Design team in delivery of their responsibilities and to ensure a focused approach to meet customer requirements and project objectives.
To communicate and work effectively with people from other partner organisations, backgrounds, and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience and add to this with your own experience and knowhow.
To ensure that the technical solution is produced to outperform on costs, whilst maintaining quality standards and delivery on time.
To contribute to achieving sustainability targets, particularly by reducing embodied and operational Carbon Footprints of solutions.
Requirements
water treatment
apm qualification
bim
cdm
chartered engineer
project management
Experience in the Water/Wastewater Treatment Industry.
Must be delivery-driven with the ability to set targets and manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectives.
Working towards or have obtain APM Project Management Qualification.
Ability to embrace collaborative and innovative working.
Be committed to excellence in Health & Safety (H&S) in design, complying fully with relevant local specifications, codes, rules, regulations and requirements and all relevant H&S legislation.
Degree in an engineering-related discipline.
Strategic, operational, technical and management skills.
APM Project Fundamentals Qualification.
Extensive experience in large-scale project delivery.
Experience of working with remote/dispersed teams.
In all internal and external contact, present a professional and positive image of MWH Treatment as well as maintaining mutually constructive, positive and beneficial relationships.
Experience of working for a global organisation.
Ability to present technical proposals clearly, confidently, and convincingly.
Good general knowledge of all aspects of water treatment e.g., related process, civil and MEICA engineering aspects.
Extensive experience of multi-disciplinary design management, in a design-build environment.
Working knowledge of CDM regulations and construction Health & Safety.
Knowledge of BIM procedures and techniques.
Chartered Engineer in an engineering-related discipline.
Merged with RSK Group, enhancing its capabilities and frameworks while retaining brand and leadership.
1,000+
Team Strength
Operates with a team of over 1,000 professionals across major UK water frameworks.
100
Direct Workforce
Manages a historic multi-trade direct workforce of around 100 people in asset management roles.
With roots stretching back to 1820, draws on two centuries of innovation in the UK water sector.
Operates as a turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction specialist, delivering projects from multi-million-pound schemes to capital maintenance.
Teams work across six major UK water frameworks, often in joint ventures and alliances.
Typical projects include water reclamation and wastewater treatment plants, delivered through integrated design-and-build contracts.
Known for pushing digital delivery techniques, winning awards for innovation and asset performance strategies.
Culture + Values
To deliver work safely and sustainably, while making a positive difference to our people, the environment, our clients and the communities we serve and live in.
Keeping safe, looking out for each other and maintaining an Injury Free Environment.
Working and collaborating with clients, partners and supply chains who share our safety, environmental and quality commitments for excellence.
Focusing on well-being and mental health, by ensuring we support our people to maintain a work/life harmony so they can always bring their best.
Providing affordable, low-carbon and nature-based solutions to secure a long-term future with our Clients.
We build trust, providing transparent interactions, professional, resilient, high-quality solutions, for our clients, that underpin our proud heritage.
We are uncompromising in our ethical behaviour, acting with fairness, integrity and making the right decisions, even though they may be tough.
We are one team; respecting and valuing strength from individual’s diversity, experiences and ideas, rallying around a common purpose.
Our people learn from each other and are supported via development to be the best they can be, because we trust them.
Collaborating across our business and our supply chain, we leverage collective expertise for our clients, their customers and communities we serve.
By continuously innovating, improving our delivery and solutions, because what we do together matters, we find solutions and commit to driven delivery, achieving results for our stakeholders.
Technology will remain at the heart of our delivery, as a facilitator of connectivity and efficiency.
Environment + Sustainability
97% waste diversion
Construction Waste Management
Over 97% of construction waste has been diverted from landfills over the past five years.
29.4% emissions drop
Carbon Reduction Achievements
A significant 29.4% reduction in carbon emissions intensity has been achieved since 2014.
31.3% footprint increase
Operational Carbon Footprint
Despite a 31.3% increase in operational carbon footprint in 2024, emissions intensity per turnover decreased by 2.17%.
ISO 14001 certified management system governs environmental expectations and requirements.
Waste strategy of eliminate, reduce, reuse and recycle applied through full project lifecycle.
Calculated organisational carbon footprint for the last ten years, externally verified through Achilles CEMARS/Carbon Reduce scheme.
Target to be operational Net Zero Carbon by 2030, with a published Route Map detailing actions required.
Inclusion & Diversity
April 2025
Real Living Wage Commitment
The company is committed to providing the Real Living Wage to all employees, excluding apprenticeships and placements.
1,250 employees
Team Composition
The company employs over 1,250 employees, including 350 in-house engineers and 700 delivery staff.
Promote a healthy workforce.
Inspire a culture of inclusion.
Connect, engage and communicate.
Attract and retain great people.
Help our people be the best they can be.
Foster a culture of zero harm with rigorous health & safety processes aligned to BS OHSAS 45001.
Employee engagement includes mental health first aiders, occupational health monitoring and an Employee Assistance Programme (per Best Companies profile).
Regular communication via CEO‑led briefings, roadshows, and internal awards (Treatment Excellence Awards) to build community and connection.
Graduate and Apprenticeship scheme supports career progression and development into sector leadership roles.