Join Our Team as a Lead Construction & Integration Engineer!
Are you a skilled engineer passionate about overseeing complex construction projects from start to finish? Do you thrive in a role where your leadership directly impacts efficiency, compliance, and customer satisfaction? If so, we want you on our team!
As our Lead Construction and Integration Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our water and wastewater network projects, ensuring smooth execution while maximizing Thames Water's benefits. Your expertise will guide projects through feasibility, design, and construction phases, ensuring buildability and seamless delivery.
What you’ll be doing as a Lead Construction Assurance & Integration Engineer
1. Manage the team, which includes direct reports and delivery partners. Your leadership will be instrumental in ensuring the team achieves project delivery outputs, driving performance and development, and fostering brilliant customer engagement.
2. Take responsibility for team performance and improve engagement of all key stakeholders throughout the stage gate process (end to end).
3. Encourage the team's capability to maintain a challenging assurance culture and ensure that engineers can competently and constructively review and advise.
4. Input into lessons learned reviews and ensure results are used in future projects.
5. Identify risks and issues; report to key stakeholders; work with stakeholders to resolve them.
6. Liaison with Operations and contractors to approve passing through key milestones.
7. Monitor and review the contractor's construction assurance documentation.
8. Work with the design teams and contractors to resolve issues promptly to minimize the impact on the programme and cost.
9. Assist the design teams (contractors and internal) with practical, buildable solutions to meet the brief.
10. Promote and monitor contractor health and safety and work with contractors to address issues and improve site health and safety performance.
11. Ensure compliance with environmental requirements in asset design and delivery, monitoring delivery performance and working with contractors to address issues and improve.
Hybrid Work Environment
Maple Lodge or Hampton Coal Wharf – Hybrid. As part of this role, you must be on site 3-4 days a week, 36 hours a week, Monday to Friday.
The successful candidate must drive and have a car - this role comes with a car allowance of £4,500 a year.
What you should bring to the role
1. Hold a Civil or Mechanical Engineering degree.
2. Hold a NEBOSH General Certificate or have a strong knowledge of health and safety.
3. Extensive knowledge of defining and supporting solutions to complex works.
4. Background in working in multi-stakeholder environments.
5. Understanding of the development of design, construction, and operation of infrastructure or non-infrastructure projects.
6. Understanding of performance and quality management.
7. Understanding of the stage gate process and intelligent client model.
What’s in it for you?
1. Competitive salary from £50,000 to £67,000 per annum.
2. Car allowance of £4,500 a year.
3. 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (Plus bank holidays).
4. Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% - 2x employee contribution.
5. Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
6. Wider benefits scheme, including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your well-being.
Who are we?
We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people and the planet to thrive.
Working at Thames Water
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and excellent benefits.
Our overarching aim is to ensure that Thames Water is a great, diverse and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.
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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