Construction 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 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**
As a **Construction Assurance Engineer**, you’ll ensure contractors are safely delivering the required assets to time, quality, and cost. You’ll be involved during the design, construction, commissioning, and defects rectification period of theproject: Ensuring buildability, efficient and effective delivery whilst safeguarding our site compliance and process. Meeting regulatory and statutory requirements and maximising benefits to Thames Water.
You’ll be accountable for overseeing all construction activities on your projects from conception to completion monitoring compliance with our asset standards, safety, environmental, and quality standards, and with wider regulations.
You’ll actively promote the Thames Water ‘Three Zeros’ culture, monitoring contractor health and safety performance.
**Key role responsibilities include**:

- Engaging with Asset Management and Operations to agree on the most effective solutions
- Assisting with the assessment and appointment of contractors
- Using learnings from previous projects to optimise the construction and handover phase of projects and innovate where practicable
- Supporting key design reviews (Solutions review/Challenge Workshop, HAZOP, HAZCOM, SWIFT)
- Verifying and approving project plans
- Identifying risks and issues and working with stakeholders to resolve
- Liaising with Operations and contractors to approve passing through key milestones
- Assessing and reporting project progress, acting to rectify issues, and escalating as necessary
- Assuring the project as it moves through the construction phase ensuring all non-conformance is identified and rectified
- Monitoring and reviewing component (FAT/SAT) testing and commissioning, ensuring all commissioning activities defined in the commissioning plan are satisfactorily completed
- Auditing contractor compliance with site procedures, following up, and ensuring corrective actions are closed out
- Managing identification and resolution of snags prior to commencement of taking Over procedures
- Monitoring, agreeing and approving Take Over tests
- Liaising with Operations and contractors to manage the defects process and performance testing

**We’re looking for you to**:

- **Be qualified in NEBOSH or IOSH General or Construction Certificate or SMSTS** or willing to gain
- **Be knowledgeable in the processes used in water and/or wastewater** as appropriate
- **Understand the development of design, construction, and operation** of infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects
- **Be self-starting, resilient, and tenacious under pressure**, with a desire to successfully deliver projects to time, cost, and quality
- **Have excellent communication** and stakeholder management skills, to clearly interact with our stakeholders and contractors
- **Possess excellent organisation and workload management skills**:

- **Deliver an exceptional service** through a passionate and positive approach, taking accountability for your role while working accurately and flexibly within a busy team
- **Foster a positive Health & Safety culture** within the team and contractors, ensuring we fulfill environmental and Health & Safety statutory obligations
- **Have a full driving licence**as travel will be required to construction and operational sites across the Thames Water catchment area

**What’s in it for you?**
This is a challenging role, key to the successful delivery of our Major Projects portfolio.You’ll be working on some of the largest projects in the water/wastewater sector with an impressive variety of work. Working with some of the leading contractors andconsultants in the sector this role is vital for successful delivery within the Thames Water intelligent client model. **We are flexible on the level of the role and both L7 and L6 opportunities are available.**
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service, and a wider benefits scheme.**The base location for the role is flexible within the Thames Water area.**
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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