Senior Designer (Multi-Utility)

Senior Designer (Multi-Utility) – Hamilton, Glasgow

Step into a leading utilities company that champions innovation and service excellence. At Last Mile, we take pride in delivering top-notch solutions across the multi-utility sector. Our dedicated team in Hamilton, Glasgow, is expanding, and we're excited to welcome a talented Senior Designer (Multi-Utility) to join us.

As a Senior Designer working under the Energetics brand, you will play a vital role in designing multi-utility networks for new housing, industrial, commercial, or multi-occupancy projects. You’ll manage the process from quote acceptance through to securing timely design approval for adoption purposes, supporting commercial activities as needed and liaising with sales teams on technical matters.

Each design will require your expertise to secure the necessary technical approvals for construction, along with completion of bill of quantities, design variations, and costings, all in line with commercial and financial procedures.

What’s in it for you as a Senior Designer?

Here at Last Mile, we pride ourselves in providing a great range of benefits including a fantastic amount of annual leave, including a Christmas shut down.

• 25 days holiday, increasing after 2 years by 1 day each year up to 30 days, plus 9 public holidays
• Holiday buy scheme
• Discretionary bonus
• EV and ULEV salary sacrifice scheme (subject to minimum length of service)
• Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme
• Up to 7% employer pension contribution
• Life assurance (x4 annual basic salary)
• Refer a friend incentive
• Wagestream
• Employee assistance programme
• Car allowance
• Hybrid working for eligible roles (3 days in the office, 2 from home) *
• Flexible start and finish times for eligible roles*
• Private medical insurance*
• Company sick pay*

*Some of our benefits are only applicable when you have successfully completed your probation period*

Your responsibilities as a Senior Designer:

• Manage a portfolio of multi-utility design projects ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, standards and technical policies and bulletins
• Responsible for managing all aspects of the design life-cycle from quotation acceptance to adoption, ensuring that time-bound milestones are achieved
• Responsible for ensuring accurate project documentation is recorded
• Liaison with Design Engineers to ensure appropriate technical input and compliance with standards is achieved.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders including Delivery Teams, Operations Team and developers
• Liaise as required with external agencies including gas / electricity network operators and water companies

Experience / Knowledge:

• Experience of designing either single or multi-utility projects in a range of domestic, commercial and multiple-occupancy settings, including large scale multi phase projects,
• Experience of CMD regulations and ability to interpret and apply to design solutions
• Practical knowledge of relevant new roads and streetworks regulations
• Ability to effectively understand and interpret complex engineering drawings and appropriate commercial documentation
• Ability to adapt to or have experience of commercial / in-house design and costing packaging including Gasworks, Windebut and SNAP

Qualifications:

• Minimum of HNC in an Engineering related discipline
• SHEA Power / Water / Gas
• Registered to minimum EngTech level with IET/IGEM/IOW

Have you got the drive to go to the Last Mile as a Senior Designer (Multi-Utility)? Apply now!

About us:

Last Mile designs, builds, owns and operates essential utilities infrastructure so people across Great Britain have access to the heat, power, water and wastewater services they need, every day.

We are one of the largest last-mile multi-utility connections businesses in the UK. We own and manage approximately 670,000 installed connections, linking distribution networks to residential and commercial customers.

Energetics is one of the Last Mile design and build brands, working with the UK’s leading housebuilders, construction firms and independent consulting companies. We provide multi-utility connections to new residential and commercial developments for customers across the North of England, North Wales, and Scotland.

It’s our people that make us. We want to attract and retain the best talent to deliver utilities infrastructure in a way we can be proud of. To achieve this, we need to be at our very best in everything we do – and employ experienced, enthusiastic and committed people.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse working environment, where employee wellbeing is at the forefront and our people feel valued. We provide tailored ongoing training and development, but most importantly, long term career opportunities for you to learn, develop and grow in your role. If you are motivated to succeed and have a ‘can-do’ attitude, we would love to hear from you!

For further enquiries contact – recruitment@lastmile-group.com or visit our website www.lastmile-group.com