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Senior Project Development Engineer
Salary: Competitive, plus annual bonus, car or allowance and other Veolia benefits
Location: Home based with Travel across Durham
When you see the world as we do, you see the chance to help the world take better care of its resources, and help it become a better place for everyone. It’s why we’re looking for someone who’s just as committed as we are, to push for genuine change and bring our ambition of Ecological Transformation to life.
As a Senior Project Development Engineer, you will be responsible for contributing to Veolia’s growth by developing building services, energy generation and distribution solutions that meet our customer requirements for sustainability, resilience, innovation, performance and optimised life cycle cost.
We know that everyone here at Veolia can help us work alongside our communities, look after the environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.
What we can offer you:
- Company car or car allowance
- Access to our company pension scheme
- Discounts on everything from groceries to well known retailers
- Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to
- 24 hour access to a virtual GP, 365 days a year, for you and family members in your household
- One paid days leave every year to volunteer and support your community
- Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential
- Stream - Employee financial wellbeing support: early access to your earned pay, savings, budgeting, financial coaching & reward
What you'll be doing:
- Lead technical development of business opportunities from pre-qualification and concept design through internal approvals, proposal submission, client presentations and handover to construction, ensuring all relevant departments are engaged.
- To support to the sustainable growth of Veolia UK’s business (HVAC, BMS, LTHW, Chilled Water, District Energy, Heat Pumps, Fuel Cells, Low Carbon Heat Network, Steam and CHP)
- Conduct energy audits, site surveys and feasibility studies to assess existing systems, identify Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs), and develop energy generation, efficiency and distribution solutions that improve resilience, reduce carbon emissions and lower energy costs.
- Support commercial and governance decisions by assessing Go/NoGo opportunities, developing outline designs and tender packages, preparing cost and programme inputs, and identifying, managing and escalating project risks.
- Manage technical partnerships and solution development with suppliers, construction teams, Supply Chain and Legal to obtain competitive quotations, validate technologies, challenge scope and costs, and ensure delivery, safety and performance risks are appropriately managed.
- Represent and strengthen the technical function through bid writing, proposal reviews and client presentations, developing innovative solutions and differentiators while sharing knowledge, mentoring team members and promoting continuous improvement. A creative, solution oriented thinker with Technical Optioneering experience in a client facing capacity.
What we're looking for:
Essential:
- Degree (2:1) in Mechanical Engineering, Building Services, Power Generation or similar engineering subject.
- Demonstrable working experience in engineering background.
- Minimum of 5 years experience as designer of energy related systems.
- AutoCAD experience for PIDs and schematics.
- UK Driving licence.
- Presentation skills and general team project management
Desirable:
- Experience with AutoCAD Plant 3D
- Experience with Naviswork
- Experience with Excel/google sheets for complex formulas
What’s next?
Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.
We're proud to have been named as one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work for three consecutive years in 2023, 2024 and 2025. This consistent recognition reflects our commitment to our people, demonstrating that Veolia is not just transforming the environment, we're also transforming what it means to have a rewarding, purposeful career.
We're dedicated to supporting you throughout your application journey, offering adjustments where reasonable and appropriate. As a proud Disability Confident Employer, we will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who opt-in to the Disability Confident scheme, and meet the minimum criteria for our roles.
We're also committed to ensuring that all applicants and colleagues receive fair treatment without discrimination on any grounds, aiming to create a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Skills Required
- Degree at 2:1 level in Mechanical Engineering, Building Services, Power Generation, or a similar engineering subject
- Demonstrable engineering work experience
- At least 5 years of experience designing energy-related systems
- AutoCAD experience for P&IDs and schematics
- Valid UK driving licence
- Presentation skills and general team project-management experience
- Experience with AutoCAD Plant 3D
- Experience with Navisworks
- Experience using Excel or Google Sheets for complex formulas
What We Do
Veolia UK provides solutions for ecological transformation. We are a company of almost 14,000 employees, although we prefer to think of ourselves as “resourcers”. Every day across the country our “resourcers” design and deploy useful and concrete solutions, which help our customers fight against climate change, prevent pollution of our water and create a circular economy where nothing goes to waste. Every year, we serve around 1.8 million people through our municipal wastewater contracts. We complete over 400 million waste collections across our Local Authority contracts, serving over 3 million residential properties; and we treat over 1.5 million tonnes of commercial and industrial waste from our 85,000 private customers. We also produce over 560 MWe of renewable and low carbon electricity, to power over 1.3 million homes. Veolia UK is an exciting and innovative place to work, but don't just take our word for it - we were named as one of the top 10 'Very Big Organisations' to work for in The Sunday Times' Best Places to Work 2024. We're resourcing the world through our purpose of ecological transformation, and we're doing this by working together to constantly progress. We are reinventing the way things work to reduce our environmental impact and increase efficiency, whether in the reuse of wastewater or the recovery of waste, such as plastics. At the same time, we anticipate the needs of tomorrow with innovative solutions that will decarbonise our energy and heating demands. We do this through the development of microgrids and energy management through our Hubgrade solution, which optimises the management of resources using digital and artificial intelligence. We are driven by optimism and passion, not to see the world as it is, but how it should be; and we are tenacious in our efforts to achieve our goals. These aren't just empty words
