Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer - Water Sector

Overview

As Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across major water and wastewater projects, shaping design across feasibility to commissioning. You’ll guide multidisciplinary teams, uphold quality and safety, and mentor engineers to grow regional capability. Your role strengthens client relationships and drives innovation within the North West water programme. This is a chance to influence national-scale infrastructure delivery while advancing Stantec’s mechanical engineering capability. You will work in a collaborative, growth-focused environment that values technical excellence and impactful community outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• bonus schemes
• enhanced pension plan
• private medical insurance
• life assurance
• gym membership

Responsibilities

• Lead mechanical design across major infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects
• Provide technical governance and quality assurance across project teams
• Act as trusted advisor to clients and support strategic decisions
• Lead multidisciplinary design reviews and collaborate with PMs, contractors and supply chain
• Provide line management, mentoring and technical development for engineers in the region
• Support business growth through client engagement, framework development and technical innovation

Key requirements

• Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer (CEng/IEng)
• Significant experience delivering mechanical engineering solutions within the UK water sector
• Strong experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on complex infrastructure projects
• Experience producing and reviewing technical specifications, calculations and mechanical designs
• Excellent stakeholder management and client relationship skills
• Experience mentoring, developing and line managing engineers

• stakeholder management
• leadership and mentoring
• communication
• mechanical design for water infrastructure
• technical governance and quality assurance
• feasibility to commissioning lifecycle

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