Senior ICA Design Engineer (Water & Wastewater) - #1801575

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are actively recruiting for a Senior EICA Design Engineer to join our MEICA team where you will leverage your skills across various water and wastewater projects, serving clients both regionally and throughout the UK.

Our Water Design and Engineering team is at the forefront of some of the UK's most intricate and challenging projects. Renowned for our expertise and excellence, we collaborate with some of the nation's most prominent companies to enhance the UK's water infrastructure and environment through a diverse range of projects.

In this role, you will report to the Principal Engineer or Associate Technical Director. You will be responsible for the design output of your engineering discipline, ensuring the technical delivery of projects meets budget, timeline, and quality objectives while exceeding client expectations. Additionally, you will promote Arcadis' comprehensive services during client interactions, contribute to achieving divisional business goals, and foster industry networks.

Role accountabilities:

• Ability to self-start and work both independently and as a team member carrying out production and checking complex electrical detailed designs including calculations, specifications, reports, and drawings.
• Supporting and / or Leading design and advisory services relating to new and existing water and wastewater process plants, pumping stations and ancillary assets.
• Ensuring safety of yourself and others through design leadership and actions.
• Technical delivery of multi-disciplinary projects, in a Design Lead capacity where assigned, using latest digital design techniques.
• Identify and develop innovative and optimised technical solutions based on client needs and drivers
• Lead and co-ordinate work with multi-disciplinary teams (e.g., process, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and ICA)
• Establish and grow relationships with clients and capital alliance partners on project technical, commercial and progress matters
• Ensuring projects meet required technical, legislative, quality, safety and environmental standards and objectives.
• Capturing key project and technical knowledge, including innovations.
• Promote MEICA team capability and achievements both internally and externally.
  
  

Key Skills:

• Lead the design phases (concept, outline, and detail) for Instrumentation Control Automation systems, adhering to international standards. Sound knowledge of ICA design (instrumentation, PLC and SCADA systems), motor control systems (MCC’s), system architecture, fieldbus/communication networks, P&ID’s, ATEX installation practice, functional safety, development of control specifications (URS/FDS), schedules and system requirements within process/industrial environment.
• Development of Design Basis, specifications, P & ID’s, System/Network Architecture, Fieldbus/communication networks, Control philosophy, Functional Design Specifications, PLC/ICA Section General Arrangements, Wiring and Schematic Diagrams, I/O schedules, Loop Diagrams, Instrument schedules and datasheets.
• Review and provide constructive comment on various ICA documentation including, Control Philosophies, Functional Design Specifications, I/O schedules, instrument schedules, communications architecture drawings and MCC/RTU/PLC electrical schematics and General Arrangements, ensuring they satisfy plant design criteria and comply with asset standard requirements
• Participate and manage inspection, testing and commissioning stages relevant to ICA equipment and installations.
• Attend factory acceptance tests for panel, PLC/HMI application software and SCADA.
• Understanding of electrical infrastructure design and their integration with the ICA system, Ensuring contractors designs comply with the latest client specifications and other relevant industry specifications (WIMES, IET wiring regulations etc.) and legislations.
• Prepare and review of specifications, data sheets, drawings and technical documentation.
• Provide technical direction in project delivery, ensuring alignment with industry standards and client requirements including Managing technical client relationships and support project pursuits.
• Knowledge on current UK design standards, working practices and national guidance.
• Awareness of best practise and standards in cybersecurity for industrial automation and control systems.
• Mentor junior team members, fostering professional growth and effective task delegation.
• Engage in global activities, leading multi-disciplinary collaborative efforts and enhancing team capabilities.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or other directly related degree
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status and membership of a professional institution such as IET, InstMC or CIWEM or working towards and nearing application.
• Significant experience and track record in technical delivery of process plant systems on complex water industry engineering projects preferably related to water and wastewater industry.
• Experience of working on design and construct projects using digital design
• Technical / Discipline Team leader with collaborative behaviours
• Feasibility to detailed design stage delivery experience
• Experience with AutoCAD, AutoDesk Plant 3D and Common Data Environments
  
  

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.