Head of Engineering

Northumbrian Water; Pity Me; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water utility company is seeking a Head of Engineering in Pity Me, UK. The role involves providing leadership to a multi-disciplinary engineering team and ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Candidates should possess strong leadership skills, chartered engineering status, and experience in improving asset management processes. The position requires driving transformational change and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. An inclusive workplace with opportunities for personal development is offered.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement

Company pension scheme

Wellness support

Travel scheme

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven track record of success in engineering leadership.
• Experience in asset management across the full lifecycle.
• Ability to challenge technical solutions effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership to the engineering team.
• Implement TOTEX challenge for maximum investment value.
• Ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory standards.

Skills

Leadership

Engineering expertise

Transformational change

Communication

Project management

Team building

Education

Chartered Engineering Professional

Relevant Master's qualification

Degree in a relevant discipline

Job description

About the role

We’ve an amazing leadership opportunity to become our new Head of Engineering within our Asset Management directorate, reporting into our Asset Management Director.

You’ll provide overall leadership to a dedicated multi‑disciplinary leadership team for the NWL Engineering and Design community to ensure strategic direction and consistency of approach in the development, delivery, and commissioning of efficient engineering solutions across the Asset and Programme Delivery lifecycle and wider operational business.

We’re looking for you to implement appropriate TOTEX challenge, from the earliest lifecycle stages, to maximise the value of the investment, identifying and embedding efficiencies into projects at an appropriate asset risk. You’ll be promoting the application of innovation, industry best practice, and continuous improvement which will be embodied in NWL’s engineering standards & specifications and asset standards.

You’ll be contributing to the strategic and tactical direction as part of the Asset Leadership Team, with focus on your strategic leadership of the engineering community, through development of a high performing team with the capability and capacity to support NWG as a Capable Owner.

We’re looking for you to ensure NWG and supply partner activity aligns to company quality standards, satisfies relevant legislative and regulatory requirements and ensures everyone goes home safe every day, ensuring the team is sufficiently resourced and are fully competent and trained to deliver effective and safe design and construction.

You’ll be leading the transformational change needed to support NWG’s ownership of engineering solutions as a Capable Owner, developing and maintaining key relationships and seek active engagement with other departments, including Service Planning, Maintenance and Operations.

We’re looking for you to establish and maintain technical governance processes and procedures in alignment with the E2E process to ensure appropriate technical decision making, as well as ensuring robust and timely technical scrutiny at each gate with a clear focus on driving value through early technical challenge prior to project initiation.

This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test.

Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date. Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre‑employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre‑employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked.

Please note this role will require a DBS to be completed prior to employment.

NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.

About you

We’re looking for you to be a proven engineering professional, with a proven track record of success through your leadership, delivery of transformational change and technical responsibility for a sizeable portfolio of engineering projects and your high professional standards as a professional / expert engineer.

You’ll have proven experience of Totex engineering and risk and value challenge of asset investment and delivery, Asset management across the full lifecycle, the definition and delivery of transformational change and cost benefit analysis and economic appraisal of options.

We’re looking for you to have proven experience in leading and developing an Engineering team to be able to fulfil the required function, as well as experience in management of SHE.

You’ll be a Chartered Engineering Professional, ideally degree level qualified with supplementary relevant Masters qualification in a relevant discipline, along with the proven skills of strong leadership and team building skills in a complex, dynamic environment. Proven experience of managing teams at senior levels.

You’ll have strong communication skills and emotional intelligence, able to bring people on a change journey, so having credibility as an able engineer with significant intellectual and engineering analytical skills and the ability to draw sound conclusions from large volumes of data would be key to being successful in the role.

We’re looking for you to have the proven ability to challenge technical solutions to deliver minimum viable solutions that satisfy business risks / outcomes, along with your sound and extensive engineering, project management and programme management delivery.

If this sounds like you, then we’d love to see your application come through to us.

Here at Northumbrian Water / Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.

Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.

We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.

About us

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply.

NWG at a glance :

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.

We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.

Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

Our benefits

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include :

• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 28 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 11%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
• Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.