Project 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 serviceand 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’ll be doing**
You will manage the end-to-end delivery cycle of engineering projects from the initial scoping of the need, through to commission/setting to work and handing back the completed project to the client.
We are seeking a Project Engineer that has managed multiple projects from start to finish. You will be confident procuring qualified contractors and must be articulate, numerical and commercially minded. Your key duties will include:

- Health & Safety management for your portfolio of projects
- Writing specification documents
- Assessing tenders
- Financial management
- Programme management
- Technical assurance
- Communication with key stakeholders/customers
- Ensuring all asset data is captured and updated at the end of a project
- This is a Full-Time position
- We are looking for multiple Project Engineers so your base could be at key locations within the Thames Water South West area, including Bracknell, Crawley, Guildford, Farnham, Camberley, Woking, Leatherhead
- Required to travel to other sites 3-4 days per week within an approximately 60 mile radius with some working from home
- 36 hours per week, Monday-Friday

**We’re looking for you to**:

- Have knowledge of wastewater treatment processes
- Have experience within a commercial and/or technical role
- Hold at least HNC/HND in mechanical, electrical, chemical or civil engineering or the relevant experience
- Have an awareness of Health and Safety and CDM 2015
- Have experience managing the delivery, design and estimating of engineering projects
- Hold a full UK driving licence and have your own transport
- Have the ability to work unsupervised and use your own initiative to deliver specified outputs
- Graduates will be considered that have some experience with wastewater treatment

**What’s in it for you?**
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
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’re moving to a hybrid approach where we’ll provide optionsaround 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 DiversityChampion and Disability Confident Leader and we’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
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