Principal Engineer – Risk & Lifecycle Planning

Scottish Water Inverness, Scotland May 12, 2026

Type Temporary
Pay £54,776
Work Onsite
Contract Permanent

Principal Engineer focuses on full technical support to the existing dsear compliance programme, working acrossassessments, remediation planning, and verification tomaintainregulatory compliance and operational.

What the role involves

  • Full technical support to the existing DSEAR Compliance Programme, working acrossassessments, remediation planning, and verification tomaintainregulatory compliance and operational.
  • Manage current and future risks to service,thusproviding assets that are safe, reliable, resilient, and capable of achieving expected performance.
  • Empowered with the autonomy to manage your own tasks, you will collaborate with industry professionals.
  • Also provide technicalexpertiseand opinion across a variety of projects.
  • Scottish Water in reaching net zero emissions by 2040.
  • Scottish Water is adopting new tools and technologies, including Generative Design, to enhance investment and risk planning.

Skills and requirements

  • Relevant technical, electrical, mechanical, maintenance, gas, plumbing, or engineering experience may be required.

Confirmed role details

  • Wastewater Directorateas a Principal Process Engineer on a permanent basis.

Candidate fit

  • technical judgement, safe working habits, careful diagnostics, and practical problem-solving
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