Associate (Wastewater treatment hydraulic lead)

Associate – Water (Hydraulics)

Glasgow / Derby / London

Permanent

Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to be a part of a growing Water Design team? Can you collaborate on projects? Are you experienced in hydraulic design? Then, read on. This could be the next adventure in your career.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow 

To expand our Water discipline, we are seeking an Associate with hydraulic design experience to serve as a Technical Authority.

Your role will be to provide technical leadership, governance, and assurance across water and wastewater treatment projects. This role will act as the subject matter specialist for hydraulic design, ensuring compliance with client standards, promoting engineering quality, and supporting the delivery of safe, efficient, and innovative solutions across a diverse portfolio of projects.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing technical leadership and authority for hydraulic design activities across multiple water & wastewater treatment projects.
• Acting as the recognised subject matter expert for hydraulic engineering design.
• Developing, maintaining, and governing hydraulic design standards, specifications, and best practices.
• Reviewing and approving complex hydraulic calculations, models, and design documentation.
• Ensuring designs meet regulatory, client, safety, environmental, and quality requirements.
• Conducting technical assurance activities, including design reviews, audits, and compliance assessments.
• Supporting risk identification and mitigation relating to hydraulic systems and associated infrastructure.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver integrated engineering solutions.
• Providing technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to engineers and designers.
• Supporting bids, proposals, and client engagements through technical expertise and thought leadership.
• Promoting continuous improvement, innovation, and adoption of new technologies and design methodologies.
• Representing the organisation as a technical authority with clients, regulators, and industry stakeholders.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• A degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering or a related discipline.
• Achieved Chartered Engineer (CEng) status (MICE, MCIWEM, MIStructE or equivalent).
• Significant experience in design of water & wastewater treatment projects.
• Demonstrable expertise in hydraulic modelling using HADES software.
• Solid understanding of relevant UK and international engineering standards and regulations.
• Experience undertaking technical governance, assurance, and independent design reviews.
• Effective communication, report writing, and presentation skills.
• Ability to mentor and develop technical teams while building a culture of engineering excellence.
• Knowledge of digital engineering, BIM, and data-driven design approaches.
• Experience working within highly regulated environments.
• Ability to deliver technical innovation and industry engagement.

A place to work and so much more 

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.  

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. 

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play. 

What we also offer: 

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.  

Some of our benefits include: 

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance
• Maternity Leave: 1-20 weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39 Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)
• Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)

Optional benefits include:

• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Electric vehicle lease
• Corporate gym membership
• Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)

Got more questions? 

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to  Laura Dobson at 

LADN@COWI.COM.  

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI. 

Equal opportunity employer. 

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

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