MWH Treatment

Engineering Resource Manager

Company
Location
Hattersley, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
6/30/2025
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Description
Location: Flexible, hybrid

Company Overview: We are a dynamic design and build company operating within the process industry. Known for innovation and delivering high-quality solutions, we are investing in the advancement of our engineering capabilities. As we evolve our approach to engineering design and production, we are seeking a visionary and hands-on Engineering Resource Manager to ensure we have the right flow of trained Engineering staff.

About the Role: As an Engineering Resource Manager, you will be responsible for leading the ongoing enhancement of our engineering organisational capacity. This includes evaluating the resource capacity needs, developing a resource strategic plan, supporting recruitment, maximising internalisation, building connections, controlling and coordinating resources and performance.

You will report directly to the Engineering Director. Location is flexible.

Responsibilities: -

Forecasting

  • Lead resource demand forecasting with support from the Regional Engineering Leads for a 3 to 5 year lookahead that includes reports on workload visibility and stability.

Meeting demand

  • Develop a strategic resourcing plan.
  • Plan and establish a supply of capable designers to meet the demand. Support closing the gap if there is misalignment between resource supply and demand and skills.

Supporting Recruitment

  • Support the launching and maintaining recruitment campaigns where required. Coordinate technical leads with authority to conduct first interviews.
  • Find innovative ways and lessons learnt to securing and retaining resources.
  • Support transparency of potential candidates across Engineering whilst working within GDPR requirements.

Internalisation, offshore, external

  • Maximise internationalisation of design if can’t be taken on by MWHT Engineering, particularly HPD.
  • Orientate between design houses to maximise capabilities and sustainability of each entity.
  • Provide pipeline visibility and stability for each design house, understand their complimenting and additive services, whether core design services or specialist call off services.
  • Support the commercial approach and system alignment to their engagement.
  • Support Enterprise/JV’s and support establishing ways to effective recruitment.

Sustainable supplier relationships

  • Support the ELT and REL’s maintaining trusting relationships with RSK internal companies and external design houses.

Building Connections

  • Be the Engineering’s representative at the Building Connections event.
  • Help build people connectivity across Engineering.

Control and Coordination

  • Control and coordinate cross – regional resource allocation. This includes developing, communicating, and upholding the resource protocol.
  • Motivate and promote collaboration.
  • Ensure that the right work environment maximising effective supply and opportunity to deliver.
  • Ensure roles of internal assigned staff are clear. Help induct assigned staff into new frameworks.
  • Be cognisance of margin return across frameworks when assigning staff.
  • Support ensuring that IFS Engineering organograms are up to date.
  • Monitor utilisation and take appropriate management actions to maximise.

Graduate and Apprenticeship Intake

  • Take point on establishing graduate and apprenticeship members for the following years intake.
  • Support the Engineering skills Group.

Evaluation

  • Deliver an annual review of salaries in the Engineering marketplace, promotions and spot bonuses.
  • Support Monitoring and analysing Engineering leaver interviews.
  • Identify measures to monitor attendance and performance and support their automation.

Essential

About You

  • Highly communicative, confident, assertive, and consultative.
  • Persistent, challenging, and supportive.
  • Open-minded and creative approaches to talent acquisition.
  • Data-driven decision maker.
  • Excellent leadership and coordination skills
  • Experience within Engineering and design
  • Experience of recruiting and great hiring practices
  • Experience in the development of new initiatives to increase efficiencies within a large organisation

About Us

MWH Treatment is an integrated design and build provider working in the water sector. With over 1400 staff working across eight regional centres, supporting six long-term water sector frameworks and two recently won frameworks, operating both as a sole contractor but also in joint ventures and alliances.

At MWH Treatment we believe that people matter. We know to build successful, creative teams we need a diverse workforce that can deliver innovative ways of thinking. We provide an environment where you will have the freedom to develop and grow to your full potential, creating opportunity by inviting, embracing, and celebrating difference, our goal as an employer is to motivate, and develop our employees. By fostering a diverse range of talents and perspectives we ensure we have the breadth of viewpoints, experiences, and skills needed to succeed. Embracing diversity of all kinds enables us to provide a work environment and culture that plays a key role in attracting and retaining the right people with the right skills.

As signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, we have made a promise to support our forces, working with the CTP to help ex veterans find work in the civilian world. We also support Mates in Mind, a charitable programme to improve and promote positive mental health in the workplace. We don’t just tick boxes; we live these values every day.

What MWH offer

Packages include - 

A competitive salary

Hybrid Working (Jobs needs dependent)

Car/car allowance (Jobs needs dependent)

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (with an additional 5 days available to buy)

Contribution Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Health Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

And many more benefits including – cycle to work scheme, discounts and savings Hub, Kids Pass etc
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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