Join our dynamic Civil Engineering team as a Senior Civil Engineer, where your expertise will be vital in tackling engineering challenges and producing exceptional designs, calculations, drawings, specifications, and reports—all while ensuring we meet regulatory standards. Working closely with the Principal Civil Engineer, you will have the opportunity to envision and create innovative water and wastewater treatment systems and infrastructure designs.
Your valuable insights will play a key role in developing and mentoring your colleagues and guiding project briefs to ensure we achieve outstanding engineering solutions on every project and being part of our commitment to sustainable engineering, which drives Thames Water’s success into AMP8 and beyond. Your contributions can genuinely change lives and make a meaningful difference in our community and for the environment.
What you’ll be doing
- Undertaking root cause analyses to fully understand causes/sources of the engineering issues affecting the performance of existing wastewater network assets.
- Liaison with internal stakeholders in areas such as operations, network modelling, and asset management.
- Identification and definition of the correct optimised engineering solutions.
- Provide civil infrastructure input into feasibility studies, optioneering, whole life costing, and preliminary designs.
- Providing the technical input into Project Definition Briefs.
- Supporting the establishment of a cohesive, sustainable Engineering structure from Graduate to Industry experts that leads Thames’s Engineering requirements into AMP8 and beyond.
Based in Hybrid, Clearwater Court, you will be required on-site as part of your role requires you to, on average 2-3 days a week
36 hours a week, Monday to Friday
What you should bring to the role
- Degree level or equivalent in their Engineering Discipline and preferably with professional chartership.
- Experience in designing new and rehabilitating wastewater utility civil infrastructure such as sewers, pumping stations, rising mains, CSOs and storage tanks.
- Ability to assess the buildability of proposed engineering solutions.
- Understanding of the regulatory environment to achieve compliance with our Engineering regulatory requirements.
- Good internal and external communication skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence colleagues.
- Experience in producing Design Management plans and delivering to plan.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary from £41,600 to £62,400 per annum depending on skills and experience.
- 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 includes our benefits hub, which is packed with offers and information to save 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 Water
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 complimentary 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.
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