Exciting opportunity alert! Join Thames Water's dynamic team as a Senior Engineer. Your role will involve maintaining and developing water networks to deliver life's essential services. Your contribution is vital in upholding high design, delivery, health, safety, and customer needs standards.
What you'll be doing as a Senior Engineer
- Ensure Project Definition Briefs have proper technical outputs and deliver the right outcomes. You will achieve this through collaboration with internal stakeholders and delivery partners.
- Maximise value through a focused understanding of risks and identifying appropriate mitigation that provides sustainable solutions.
- Contribute to and continuously improve Technical Asset Standards and maintain awareness of industry developments and best practice.
- Provide design sign-off between Asset Management and Capital Delivery as the gated delivery process dictates.
- Provide technical assurance during the design development, delivery, commissioning and handover of assets. You will seek to identify opportunities and challenge the process to drive efficiency and innovation.
- Ensure that the design and delivery of projects incorporate Safety, health, and wellbeing practices and promote Thames Water's Zero Compromise policy. This will include undertaking site audits, technical compliance audits, and risk assessment reviews.
Hybrid - Maple Lodge, you must attend the office weekly and complete site visits as required by the business and role.
36 hours a week, Monday to Friday.
A full UK driving licence and access to a car are ideal for this role, but please still apply if you do not have these.
What you should bring to the role
- Engineering HNC or HND / Degree within Civil Engineering.
- Knowledge of design and development of project technical solutions and briefs in their specific discipline.
- Understanding water infrastructure project delivery in various urban and environmentally. sensitive environments. This is desirable, but we are open to other backgrounds.
- Knowledge of CDM, Health and Safety in the Construction and Utility industry.
- Understanding key legislation, regulatory bodies and engineering best practices in the water and utility sector.
What's in it for you?
- Competitive salary from £46,000 to £65,000 per annum.
- 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (Plus bank holidays).
- Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
- Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
- Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.
Who are we?
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.
Water is life's great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we're committed to taking care of it for us all.
But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?
Working at Thames Wate
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At Thames Water we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.
We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills,experiences, background, and differences that each individual brings.
Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.
Find out more about working at Thames Water.
When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you'll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It's also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.