Mechanical Engineer

About the role

Job title - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location:
Peterborough

Balfour Beatty play a key role as part of the {(6) Anglian Water's @one Alliance:
Overview | Linked In} @Anglian Water’s one Alliance. The Alliance is a ground‑breaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry‑leading partners:
Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period yet, we are taking on nature‑based, sustainable solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We are setting global benchmarks in environmental infrastructure and empowering our people with exceptional career growth opportunities.

We are seeking a Mechanical Engineer to work within one of the @One Alliances four business units, bolstering our mechanical engineering capabilities in our alliance team and providing fresh ideas and perspective on our ways of working.

• Lead the preparation and analysis of key mechanical options, for review and agreement with the client and key project stakeholders ensuring risks and gaps are mitigated whilst always upholding the Project Basis of Design.
• Design calculations facilitating the sizing of mechanical, hydraulic, power generating and building services equipment.
• Liaise with the supply chain to ensure the latest technologies are assessed and understood as part of the optioneering process.
• Collaborate with the design team to develop 3D models and solutions.
• Oversee the outputs for a number of processes including P&IDs and Data sheets, HAZID and HAZOP studies and mechanical input into commissioning plans, including proposed performance tests.
• Support the team in the drive towards excellence in Health & Safety, demonstrating applied knowledge and skills to produce safe designs to discharge your obligation according to CDM Regulations and standards.
• Identify and promote opportunities to meet the project digital, sustainability, innovation and people objectives.

• A degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Extensive practical mechanical design experience in a similar environment.
• Proven track record of designing hydraulic and mechanical systems and products.
• Possess a good understanding of modular build and construction processes and procedures.
• Collaboration and team work.
• Courage to try new things and work differently to safely deliver.

The Place Based Thinking team delivers some of the largest and most complex projects across the @one Alliance. Made up of six Senior Project Manager teams, we oversee 19 catchments, covering key sites such as Whitlingham, Flag Fen, Great Billing, Cotton Valley, Bedford, Colchester, and Ipswich Cliff Quays. These projects involve managing all parts of the network from rising and gravity mains, pumping stations, high spilling overflows, and water recycling centres.

The Water Business Unit provides strategic support across the clean water network, covering both system performance and infrastructure planning. We assess the future hydraulic state of the network in response to population growth and increased demand, support the design and delivery of capital and infrastructure schemes to ensure hydraulic resilience, and work with optimisation teams to enhance overall network efficiency.

Our Water Recycling Business Unit, split into East and West regions, is responsible for the collection, conveyance, and treatment of wastewater across an extensive network. We operate over 76,000km of sewerage infrastructure and 1,163 treatment centres, ensuring safe and sustainable discharge to the environment while driving innovation and environmental performance.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with one of the UK’s most successful capital delivery alliances. You’ll have the chance to contribute to cutting‑edge projects that shape the future of water infrastructure, working alongside a team of experts across various…