Senior Civil Design Engineer

Thames Water; Reading; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent water utility company in Reading seeks a Lead Design Engineer to oversee engineering solutions for water and wastewater treatment. The role involves managing project resources and collaborating with stakeholders. Candidates should have a civil engineering degree and extensive design experience. The competitive salary ranges from £50,000 to £65,000 annually, along with generous benefits including annual leave and a pension scheme.

Benefits

26 days annual leave

Generous Pension Scheme

Health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in water and wastewater treatment design.
• Detailed knowledge of construction buildability.
• Strong understanding of regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Conduct root cause analyses for engineering issues.
• Manage design teams and project resources.
• Produce project deliverables such as reports and plans.

Skills

Civil engineering

Project management

Knowledge of UK water industry standards

Excellent communication skills

Ability to lead design teams

Education

Degree in civil engineering

Job description

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• Undertaking root cause analyses to fully understand the causes/sources of the engineering issues affecting the performance of existing treatment assets.
• Undertaking the Lead Design Engineer/Technical Lead role to manage team resources on schemes as allocated.
• Liaison with internal stakeholders such as capital delivery, operations, permitting, modelling and asset management.
• Identification and definition of the correct optimised cost-effective engineering solutions
• Identifying and specifying survey requirements to inform solution definition and preliminary designs
• Assessing risks to the delivery of schemes and identifying mitigation of identified risks
• Providing civil input into feasibility studies, optioneering, whole life costing and preliminary designs.
• Producing solution options reports and Project Definition Briefs, and associated project deliverables
• Working with CAD technicians to produce site layout plans
• Checking and reviewing reports, calculations and drawings
• Guiding and supporting junior engineers

Working hours: 36 hours per week

What you should bring to the role

• Degree level in civil engineering with professional chartership or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in the design of new and extension/rehabilitation of water and wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations, pipelines and associated supporting infrastructure.
• Detailed knowledge of UK water industry standards, specifications and best practice.
• Ability to assess the buildability of proposed engineering solutions and liaise with contractors to assess the buildability of more complex solutions.
• Strong understanding of the regulatory environment to achieve compliance with our Engineering regulatory requirements.
• Excellent communication skills both internally and externally, with the ability to collaborate and influence colleagues.
• Experience in producing Design Management/execution plans and delivering to plan.
• Experience in undertaking the Lead Design Engineer/Technical Lead role and managing design teams.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary from circa £50,000 to £65,000 per annum depending on experience
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.