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Job ID REF45422L-744000091596454 Date posted 01/02/2026 Location United Kingdom Category Engineering, Design, Projects
Design Engineer
Company Description
Water Technologies offers employees a wide range of career development opportunities within a major international group, as well as the chance to develop their skills through its training programs.
Present in 130 countries and employing more than 10,000 people worldwide, Water Technologies activities rely on a culture of innovation, combined with strong expertise and a global organization to provide solutions to the most complex water, wastewater and process problems.
We have a range of products and services, complemented by chemicals, equipment and digital offerings, to help our customers optimize their production, while preserving water resources and overcoming process challenges.
We work with all industrial sectors, including the food, metal & mining, electrical, chemical & pharmaceutical, oil & gas downstream & upstream, petrochemical, pulp & paper and municipal industries.
At Water Technologies , we're at the forefront of activities designed to save water and reduce energy consumption for industrial customers. The collective expertise and passion of our people, combined with a broad portfolio of over 10,000 technologies, makes us uniquely positioned to deliver solutions that positively impact the environment.

Design Engineer
This role is based at our offices in Peterborough.
Salary is between 35k to 45k dependent on experience
The Peterborough, UK facility has two functional areas; an engineering facility that designs and builds mobile water treatment equipment, and a plant that regenerates ion exchange resin and works with cutting edge membrane technologies to provide mobile water treatment equipment for customers.
The Design Engineer will report to Global Engineering and Asset Leader and operationally report to Team Leader. You will be working on projects relating to the Peterborough facility and Global Asset design engineering.
Interested in how things work, you will have a natural curiosity that will prompt you to explore where we could be working smarter. You will have a service in mind design approach, and we will see the output from this in cost savings, smart solutions, quality and on time delivery. You will understand early on that our customers matter to us.
Key duties:

• Develop 3D model designs in Solid Works or Autocad and produce detailed fabrication drawing and reviews
• Support design and project engineering of Mobile Assets water treatment systems for Build, Own and Operate plants and Mobile fleets upgrades.
• Work very closely with the design team to support drafting and develop designs.
• Material and Equipment selection for the designs, comply with specifications and certifications.
• Manage the customer deliverable for customer facing projects.
• Work in SAP business tool: Material Master, Inventory, drawing and BOM
• Support Environment Health & Safety (EHS), Quality, MOC engineering actions and HAZOPs.
• Provide support for finding suppliers and parts; Technical review of the quotes
• Support Manufacturing, Engineering, and Drawing management to shop floors in Peterborough, Wuxi, Norfolk, Minnetonka, Guelph and other build locations
• Provide extended support for Commercial Engineering team, Mobile PM team and Plant support.
• Training and Coaching for engineering interns, new starters and outsourced engineering
• Site visits and as built surveys.

Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally, B.Sc / M.Eng / M.Sc in Engineering, Mechanical, Chemical
• Industrial, Electrical, Environmental Engineering background
• Experience in, or an industrial placement training in the Water Industry

Preferred Specialist skills/knowledge

• SAP, Auto CAD and Solid works

Additional Information
At Veolia, we know that at certain crucial moments in life, we all need a little help, protection and support.
That's why we are proud to offer our innovative Veolia Cares program, which demonstrates our commitment to our employees. From the very first day of employment, this commitment is reflected in an array of benefits that is generous, and relevant.
These include:
Health & Welfare:
Holiday allowance 26 days plus Bank Holidays with the option to buy or sell additional days off
Private Healthcare - currently BUPA, with an option to add your family members
Dental Plan providing cover or monetary cash back on appointments and treatments
Enhanced Maternity / Primary Care pay of 13 weeks full pay from Day 1
Enhanced Paternity / Secondary Care pay of 2 weeks full pay from Day 1
Adoption Leave of 13 weeks full pay for Parental, and 2 weeks full Co-parental pay from day 1 of employment
Support for Carers offering flexibility for longer term caring needs such as considering options of remote work, flexible work hours, adjusted schedules, and paid or unpaid leave
A Lifestyle Account where we put in 60 to start you off, then match you for on every activity you buy up to 360
Discounted Gym Memberships
All employees receive one day of paid volunteering leave per year
Monetary Benefits:
Leading pension contribution of 10% of your earnings from us every month, doubling your own contribution of 5%
Option to buy shares at preferential rates
Salary Sacrifice Schemes
The Bigger Picture - protecting you and your loved ones in the longer term
Industry leading Life Insurance providing you 10 x your salary as a benefit paid to your nominated person(s)
Income Protection that covers you for 5 years at up to 60% of your salary, with 2 x your salary as a lump sum should you be unable to return to work.
As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.
Save for Later Job ID REF45422L-744000091596454 Date posted 02/01/2026 Localisation Peterborough, United Kingdom Job Engineering, Design, Projects Contract type Standard
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