Overview

Are you an experienced Mechanical Engineer with a passion for creating sustainable solutions? Join Stantec and help us tackle our communities' urgent climate, environmental, and efficiency challenges. We are seeking a Principal Mechanical Engineer to join us in our office in Leeds or Cambridge. With hybrid working allowing for a combination of in-office and home working, this role would suit an experienced Mechanical Engineer who wants to take their next step in their career within an industry-leading consultancy by working on exciting projects in the water sector.

Across Stantec, we are building on a highly successful period of growth. We enable the delivery of sustainable development and infrastructure projects that adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. We are also responding to the current ecological crisis in the UK by designing infrastructure that conforms to the Eel Regulations 2009.

Responsibilities

• Involve in the whole project life cycle from feasibility and optioneering through to detailed design and construction support, including site surveys and investigations.
• Collaborate with project managers, technical leaders, design engineers, clients, supply chain partners, contractors, planners, and other stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes for projects and the community.
• Provide leadership and guidance to junior team members and support their development.

About You

• Experienced Mechanical Engineer, ideally chartered with the IMechE.
• Experience in mechanical design with emphasis on pump station optioneering, design, construction management, and commissioning.
• Proven ability to produce and review technical outputs such as specifications, reports, and pumping/water system designs; familiar with schedules and collaborative planning reviews.
• Ability to deliver construction and commissioning services and provide engineering input to design outputs in collaboration with other disciplines (e.g., General Arrangement Drawings, 3D models, Control Philosophies, Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams).
• Strong communication skills with ability to deliver technical presentations to clients and design engineers; capable of contributing to collaborative design discussions, technical workshops, safety reviews (including HAZOPs and ALMs).
• Ability to provide technical leadership to the Flood and Coastal Mechanical team and support the development of junior engineers.
• Understanding of how lowland drainage pumping stations operate and experience assessing existing site infrastructure to develop and deliver mechanical designs; awareness of the Eel Regulations 2009 and their implications on flood and coastal pumping stations.
• Interest in the energy, infrastructure & water sectors in a mechanical engineering capacity is welcome.

Most importantly, you will embody and support our values of client focus, designing with community in mind, collaboration and service excellence.

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees across 450 locations on 6 continents. We have been working with clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years, planning, designing, delivering and managing development and infrastructure to support sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans, and efficient designs based on technical excellence and market insight. We strive for clean growth, radical changes in our economy, and meeting the needs of future communities.

EEO and Contact

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and prohibits discrimination on grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, marital status, genetic information, or expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions regarding recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, training, terminations, or any other condition of employment. Stantec complies with applicable laws and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply. If you need support or adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please contact careers.UK@stantec.com; we will discuss how we can support you.

ReqID: 7600