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Electrical Design Engineer – Water (6324)

Stantec is currently searching for an Electrical Design Engineer to join our thriving water business in Newcastle
By: Stantec UK

The Opportunity

Shape the future of the UK water industry with ground-breaking projects at Stantec.

We are a leading innovator in engineering consultancy, renowned for exceeding client expectations and delivering award-winning solutions to complex industry challenges. We’re currently searching for an Electrical Design Engineer to join our thriving water business in Newcastle, to keep this success going.

As an experienced Electrical Engineer, you will play a key role in providing EICA design services for a range of projects, across the whole project life cycle from optioneering through to detailed design and installation. You will also work on feasibility studies, site surveys, and investigations.

You will have the opportunity to learn and develop from a close-knit team of experienced engineers, and you will be encouraged to mentor and guide less experienced members of the team.

We offer a competitive benefits package, a strong culture of learning and development, and a great environment to work in. As we look to further diversify and grow our wider Stantec UK business, you will be presented with future opportunities across our diversified business lines to further your career.

About you

You will be an experienced Electrical Engineer with a Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related subject.

You will be experienced in writing technical specifications, control philosophies, schedules, reports and be familiar with collaborative reviews and designs of solutions.

You will be able to produce Single Line Diagrams, Block Cable Diagrams, Network Infrastructure Diagrams as well as providing engineering input to collaborative design outputs, such as General Arrangement Drawings, 3D models and Process & Instrumentation Diagrams.

Experience in the Water sector is an advantage but we would also be interested in speaking with candidates with experience in the energy, infrastructure & environmental sectors.

Why Join us?

Our People Culture: We’re a close knit team and very proud of our friendly and collaborative environment.

Awards: Stantec were awarded the International Consulting Firm of the Year and Best place to work – Large Consulting Firms at the 2024 NCE awards as well as being consistently recognised in the top 10 Corporate Knights most sustainable companies in the world.

Great Benefits: Competitive salary, pension plan, holidays, free private medical insurance, discounted gym membership and lots more.

Flexible working arrangements.

Great Projects in all of our sectors across the UK&I.

Industry leading training and development as well as paid for professional subscriptions.

To hear what some of our employees say about life at Stantec, please click on My Stantec Stories.

 

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities. 

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities. 

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

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Woolston WwT Scheme - Part 5 (2020)
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Barston STW (2019)
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BRP - Treated Water Project - Birmingham Resilience Project (2019)
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Childrey Warren WTW Abstraction Closure (2019)
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Finham STW Activated Sludge Plant (2019)
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River Yare Pipeline Crossing & Tunnel Decommissioning (2019)
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Scaynes Hill WwTW (2019)
Scaynes Hill Wastewater Treatment Works serves a population of approximately 38,000 from Haywards Heath and surrounding areas in West Sussex, with capacity to treat up to 337 l/s of incoming wastewater flow. The treatment works also receives imported cess via tanker from customers not connected to the mains drainage system, plus liquid sludge via tanker […]
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Thames Water AMP6 Pressure Management Programme (2019)
Thames Water’s water distribution network totals some 31,000km of mains that provides about 2.6 billion litres of water every day. This network has been built up over many years and includes pipes that were laid during the Victorian age. Pressure management is an established way of leakage reduction and network protection, ensuring that customers receive […]
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Waterworks Bridge Reconstruction (2019)
Waterworks Bridge is an oblique three-span structure of approximately 30m length crossing the Waterworks River in Stratford, East London and forms a key part of the Greenway footpath and cycleway providing access to/from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from the south-east. Most significantly, Waterworks Bride houses a section of the Northern Outfall Sewer (NOS). Built […]
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Woolston WwT Scheme - Part 4 (2019)
Woolston WwTW uses a conventional activated sludge plant (ASP), built in 1966, treating sewage flows from part of the Southampton conurbation, serving a population of approximately 62,000 people. The site occupies an area of 1.26 hectares. The existing sewerage system which feeds into the WwTW collects both wastewater and stormwater from the Woolston catchment area. […]
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BRP - Treated Water Project - Birmingham Resilience Project (2018)
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Elan Valley Aqueduct (EVA) has conveyed raw water 118km from the Elan Valley in Wales under gravity to Frankley Water Treatment Works (WTW) in Birmingham. The treatment works was inaugurated at the same time as the EVA and has treated water, to supply the residents and industries […]
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Countess Wear Stormwater UV Irradiation Plant (2018)
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Euston 42” Trunk Main Diversion (Phase 1) (2018)
High Speed 2 (HS2) Phase 1 will intersect a large number of critical third-party assets along its 190km route, with a significant impact on several of the UK’s water and wastewater companies. In London, approximately 50kms of Thames Water’s buried assets are affected by construction of the new railway, including a number of highly strategic […]
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Killingworth & Longbenton Water Management (2018)
Since 2010, the Risk Management Authorities (RMAs) for the Tyneside drainage catchment have developed and implemented an area-based prioritisation process to identify and investigate those drainage areas at greatest risk of performance failure. The Killingworth, Longbenton and Forest Hall area was one of those areas identified, something supported by the published 2010 Strategic Flood Risk […]
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King’s Scholars’ Pond Sewer (2018)
There was evidence of significant internal degradation and deterioration of the King’s Scholars’ Pond Sewer in the vicinity of the Baker Street tube station London Underground tunnel. Degradation included significant cracking of the sewer brickwork as a consequence of considerable settlement of the LUL railway tunnel beneath. The sewer is situated beneath a key artery […]
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Knostrop Sludge Treatment Facility (2018)
The Yorkshire Water sewage sludge incinerator at Knostrop WwTW is approaching the end of its asset life in AMP7. This, along with high operating costs has driven a business need to review the long-term treatment of sludges in the Yorkshire/Leeds catchment. Following a strategy review, Yorkshire Water Services (YWS) decided to progress with conventional mesophilic […]
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Lockwood Reservoir (2018)
Lockwood Reservoir is one of ten Walthamstow reservoirs in north London and makes up part of Walthamstow Wetlands; Europe’s largest urban wetland nature reserve. It is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and a Special Protected Area (SPA). The Wetlands attract 250,000 visitors a year and is a key site in London for […]
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New Malden Trunk Mains (2018)
New Malden pipe-track contains 3 (No.) 30” and 1 (No.) 48” trunk mains, with the oldest main being nearly 170 years old. The mains feed the Surbiton supply zone and serve as bulk transfer mains to supply south-west London. Kingston Council is going to build a new cycleway over the track; however, these mains are […]
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Nine Elms, Battersea Growth & SuDS (2018)
The Nine Elms redevelopment area within Battersea includes 21,000 new dwellings, office, leisure and retail space creating 8000 new jobs including the new US Embassy, a relocated New Covent Garden Market site and the Northern Line extension. An integrated water management study completed by Thames Water (TW) in partnership with the Greater London Authority, ARUP […]
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Plymouth Central STW Stormwater UV Irradiation (2018)
The European Union’s (EUs) revised Bathing Water Directive (rBWD) (2006/7/EC) came into force in March 2006 replacing Bathing Water Directive (BWD) (76/1160/EEC). The overall objective of the revised directive is the protection of public health. From November 2015, a new classification system for bathing waters (excellent, good, sufficient or poor) was introduced, with more stringent […]
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Thames Water UPM Scoping Studies (2018)
The Environment Agency (EA) identified a number of waterbodies which were deemed to be at risk of deterioration or failure to achieve the Water Framework Directive (WFD) ‘good’ status due to the impacts from wet weather discharges from the urban wastewater network. Seventeen of these waterbodies were within the Thames Water region and the risk […]
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Trinity Broads Mud Pumping Project (2018)
The Norfolk Broads is a low-lying landscape of interconnected lakes (broads) and streams and large parts are also Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) and contain a number of protected species of flora and fauna. One area of the Norfolk Broads; the Trinity Broads, provides raw water to Ormesby Water Treatment Works (WTW) operated by […]
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Woolston WwT Scheme - Part 3 (2018)
Built in 1966, Woolston Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) uses a conventional Activated Sludge Plant (ASP) to treat sewage flows from part of the Southampton conurbation. Serving a population of approximately 62,000, the site occupies an area of 1.26 hectares. The existing sewerage system which feeds into the WwTW collects both wastewater and stormwater from the […]
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Basingstoke Sludge Treatment Centre (2017)
The Basingstoke Sludge Treatment Centre (STC) incorporates liquid and caked, raw sludge import facilities together with thermal hydrolysis and anaerobic digestion plant which will process 53tDS/day of sludge from Basingstoke, Farnham, Fleet, Guilford and Newbury. This will fulfil Thames Water’s strategy to cease unsustainable liming activities at the four satellite sites up to the 2036 […]
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Beckton to Riverside Sludge Mains Refurbishment (2017)
Thames Water Utilities Limited (TWUL) currently transfer a proportion of the wastewater sludge generated by Beckton Sewage Treatment Works (STW) in East London to Riverside STW using 2 (No.) 8km buried pipelines. These twin pipelines were originally installed in the late 1960s to pump sludge in the opposite direction from Riverside to Beckton where it […]
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BRP - PAC Dosing System - Birmingham Resilience Project (2017)
Frankley Water treatment Works (WTW) provides a potable water supply to the metropolitan area of Birmingham, and has done so for over a century. Currently it treats water that is conveyed by gravity from the Elan Valley in Powys, Wales. Severn Trent Water is in the process of upgrading Frankley WTW to accommodate a new […]
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Cowley Trunk Main Project (2017)
Following a burst on the existing 24” trunk main running along the Oxford Eastern Bypass in September 2014 causing severe flooding, Thames Water made the decision to replace the high risk section of the main to prevent future pipe failures. The Optimise Joint Venture delivered the £6m project, installing 2km of replacement trunk main along […]
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Heybridge Sea Gate & Lock Gate Replacement (2017)
At the start of construction for the Hanningfield Raw Water Reservoir, an Act of Parliament The Hanningfield Water Order 1950 was passed with agreements put in place for the maintenance of the lock between the navigation company (Essex Waterways) and Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), parent company of Essex and Suffolk Water. NWG abstracts water from […]
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Horsley WTW (2017)
Northumbrian Water’s Horsley WTW serves around 800,000 people in the Newcastle and Tyneside area. The original works was constructed in 1977 and last extended in 2003. It draws its supply from the nearby River Tyne at Ovingham and the Whittle Dene complex of reservoirs fed from Kielder Water. The existing works has a capacity of […]
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Littlemore Sewage Pumping Station (2017)
As part of the Thames Water AMP5 programme of works, Optimise was instructed to carry out an upgrade to the terminal pump station feeding Oxford STW located in Littlemore, Oxford. The terminal pump station handles flow from a population of 200,000 and the condition of the station was of considerable concern to the Environment Agency, […]
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Llyn Teifi Spillway Rehabilitation Works (2017)
Llyn Teifi Reservoir is situated in a remote area on the western slopes of the Cambrian Mountains in Ceredigion, west Wales, and was created in the early 1960s by raising a natural lake. It is impounded behind six embankments constructed across natural low spots along its south-western margin, covering an area of just over 25 […]
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Margate & Broadstairs Wastewater Pumping Stations (2017)
In 2008, Southern Water completed significant improvements to the wastewater treatment infrastructure serving the North Thanet catchments of Margate and Broadstairs to meet the requirements of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive. The existing marine head works at Joss Bay, Broadstairs and at North Foreland, Margate were upgraded to process screened flows and remove grit, […]
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Mogden STW (2017)
Mogden Sewage Treatment Works is the second largest in the UK. The first phase was built between 1931 and 1935 at a cost of £1.7 million and covers an area of 55 hectares. The facility treats wastewater from a population equivalent of 1.9 million across a 60 square mile catchment area of north and west […]
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Netheridge STW (2017)
Netheridge Sewage Treatment Works (STW) is one of Severn Trent Water’s key sites in the south west of the region serving the city of Gloucester, discharging final effluent to the River Severn. The works currently serves a population equivalent of 197,940 which is predicted to increase to 218,815 by the 2034-35 design horizon. The site […]
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Saltend WwTW (2017)
Yorkshire Water’s Saltend WwTW had a history of environmental under-performance which resulted in a significant number of customer complaints due to odour. Between September 2015 and May 2016, £18m of refurbishment and upgrade work was carried out on a fast track basis to improve this performance. Commercial arrangements were adjusted from normal framework conditions to […]
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Walton Eel Screens (2017)
In January 2010 the Eels (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 came into force which gave the Environment Agency new powers to protect and to conserve the population of eels in the rivers of England and Wales. The abstraction point for Thames Water’s Walton Advanced Water Treatment Works in Walton, Surrey, removed a maximum of 900ML/D […]
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Whitburn Spill Reduction (2017)
Northumbrian Water is required to provide investment to reduce spills at Whitburn and St Peter’s, Sunderland in order to comply with the requirements of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) by December 2017. Sunderland (north) is an urban catchment of predominantly residential properties and is home to Sunderland’s Blue Flag award winning beaches at […]
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Woolmans Wood Phase 2 (2017)
Between 2011 to 2013, Southern Water invested £14m replacing old water mains in the Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester. An additional £8 million is now being invested to replace a further 28km of 85-year-old water mains and service pipes to further improve water supply pipes and reduce the risk of discoloured water. The Chatham supply zone […]
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Woolston WwT Scheme - Part 2 (2017)
Built in 1966, Southern Water’s Woolston WwTW uses conventional activated sludge plant (ASP) to treat sewage flows from part of the Southampton conurbation, serving a population of approximately 62,000 people. The site occupies an area of 1.26 hectares. The existing sewerage system which feeds into the WwTW collects both wastewater and stormwater from the Woolston […]
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BRP - Treated Water Project - Birmingham Resilience Project (2016)
Frankley WTW is located to the south west of Birmingham city centre. It is the primary water treatment works supplying potable water to the city of Birmingham. The Elan Valley Aqueduct (EVA) is a 118km gravity aqueduct that conveys raw water from the Elan Reservoirs in mid Wales to Frankley WTW. The Elan Reservoirs are […]
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Fellgate Surface Water Management (2016)
Fellgate estate in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear has a history of flooding and suffered extensive property flooding in 2012, affecting 175 properties. Flooding originated from sewers, highway drainage, runoff from land, small water courses and ditches during heavy rainfall. Northumbrian Water and the local authority South Tyneside Council share responsibility for surface water management and […]
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Hastings Bathing Water Improvement Scheme (2016)
Hastings Beach on the southern coast of the UK was identified at risk of failing the European Union revised Bathing Water Directive. If the bathing water failed, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) would be legally required to put up signs warning the public of poor water quality. MWH (now Stantec UK) targeted ‘high beneficial’ interventions by […]
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Highbridge SPS Stormwater UV Disinfection (2016)
Being classed as ‘poor’ quality, the bathing water at Burnham Jetty was predicted to fail under the revised Bathing Water Directive (rBWD). Investigations during AMP5 showed that improvements to sewage overflows at Highbridge and Bridgwater were necessary to improve compliance; with disinfection of the stormwater discharge at Highbridge Sewage Pumping Station (SPS) being identified for […]
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Turners Road Penstock Chambers Upgrade (2016)
As part of the Thames Water (TW) AMP5 programme of works, it was necessary to remove and upgrade condemned platforms within two interlinked penstock chambers on the Low Level No. 1 (LL1) and Low Level No. 2 (LL2) sewers, which are two of the largest and most important in London. The chambers sit beneath a […]
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Woolston WwT Scheme - Part 1 (2016)
Construction works are now in their second year on Southern Water’s £63 million environmental improvement scheme to redevelop and completely modernise Woolston WwTW. (The first year of the Woolston WwT Scheme was detailed in the 2015 edition of UK Water Projects). The existing works uses a conventional activated sludge plant (ASP), built in 1966, treating […]
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Woolston WwT Scheme (2015)
Work has started on a £63m environmental improvement scheme to redevelop and completely modernise Woolston WwTW. The existing works uses a conventional activated sludge plant (ASP), built in 1966, treating sewage flows from part of the Southampton conurbation, serving a population of approximately 62,000 people. The site occupies an area of 1.26 hectares. The existing […]
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