Technical Assurance Engineer

Who are we?
Thames Water is the UK's largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km's of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.

At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.

What you will be doing
This is an exciting and rewarding role as we deliver one of the UK's biggest engineering infrastructure programmes to maintain the supply of wholesome drinking water and safe treatment of wastewater which is critical to protecting our environment.
You will play a key role in ensuring projects are delivered to time, cost and quality objectives as well as ensuring and supporting a strong health, safety, and wellbeing culture throughout.

Ensuring contractors and consultants delivering capital projects for Thames Water comply with our requirements, standards, and expectations.

Ensuring the solution developed and delivered meets the technical and environmental requirements of the Project Brief, addresses the needs and meets operations expectations, whilst providing the best Whole Life Cost for Thames Water and its customers.

We're looking for you to:

• Be educated to degree level in an engineering or technical discipline, or with equivalent role-specific experience
• Have significant experience working in a design or related role
• Have detailed knowledge within your discipline plus experience of working across engineering disciplines
• Be commercially aware with a good practical understanding of engineering contracts
• Be a great team player with the ability lead and work collaboratively with all stakeholders
• Have a desire to adopt and demonstrate behaviours aligned with Thames Water's Values
• You will be self-starting, resilient and tenacious under pressure, with a desire to successfully deliver projects safely to time, cost and quality

What's in it for you!
This role provides an excellent challenge for an experienced Technical Assurance Engineer to join Thames Water's Major Projects team, working on some of the most significant and complex wastewater treatment and renewable energy projects that Thames Water needs to safely deliver. The role also offers opportunities for progression within Major Projects, Capital Delivery and more widely across Thames Water.

Our competitive salary package includes:

• An excellent contributory pension
• 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service
• Two days paid volunteer leave a year
• Annual pay review
• Season ticket loans
• Voucher scheme giving you money off in major retail outlets
• Loyalty awards for continuous service
• Our referral scheme, where you can receive £750 for helping someone get a permanent position within the company

We're proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you'll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We're also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader and we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.

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