Why This Role?
As our EICA Engineering Lead, youâll take a national leadership position shaping and expanding our electrical and ICA engineering capabilities. Youâll guide the delivery of major water and wastewater infrastructure programmes, influence strategic decisions for highâprofile UK water clients, and play a pivotal role in embedding best practice across the business. This is your opportunity to shape direction, raise standards, and build a highâperforming EICA engineering team from the ground up.
If youâre energised by joining a fastâgrowing, newlyâformed UK water practice, where you can directly influence the teamâs trajectory and help shape the future of national water infrastructure, then this role offers you the platform to make a genuine, lasting impact.
Key Responsibilities
Technical & Design Leadership
- Lead the Electrical, Instrumentations, Control and Automation (EICA) Design of municipal water and wastewater treatment projects across the UK, covering feasibility, optioneering, concept, outline and detailed design across major programmes (e.g. AMP8, WINEP, SROs, etc).
- Set and uphold the EICA design approach for treatment work: in-house standards (in line with water industry asset standards), checking, and consistency of outputs across projects and teams.
- Fulfil Designer duties under CDM 2015 for EICA systems, addressing hazardous area, electrical and control system risks and contributing to coordinated project-level design risk management.
- Take ownership of the EICA scope within multidisciplinary delivery, driving clear decisions on operability, maintainability, access, and whole-life performance.
- Lead and assure core EICA deliverables, including development and review of technical specifications, calculations, reports, control philosophies, user requirement specifications, schedules, network architecture drawings, and associated design documentation; support inspection, testing, factory acceptance testing (FAT), and commissioning activities for ICA systems where required.
Client Engagement & Delivery
- Act as a senior client-facing technical lead, running workshops and design reviews, advising clients, and building long-term relationships with regulated water stakeholders.
- Provide design assurance and technical support during delivery phases, including reviewing contractor submissions, answering design queries, and supporting handover/commissioning activities when required.
Business Growth & Team Development
- Grow the EICA capability through business development and work winning: identify opportunities, shape scopes, contribute to bids, and build a healthy forward pipeline.
- Help translate the UK water growth strategy into practical actions: target sectors, priority accounts, capability gaps, and delivery plans focused on treatment.
- Build the EICA arm of the UK water consultancy team through recruitment, mentoring and skills development, including pathways, coaching and technical governance.
- Work with the wider business to evolve new and improved service offerings, including sustainability-led and value-focused EICA solutions for treatment assets.