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 of pipes_,_ keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open.
**What you’ll be doing**
As a **Construction Assurance Engineer**, you’ll be responsible for ensuring contractors are safely delivering the required assets to our project delivery process, time, quality, and cost. This means you will be involved during the design, construction,commissioning, and defects rectification period of the project and therefore, ensuring buildability, efficient and effective delivery in line with our site compliance processes.
You’ll be assuring the meeting of regulatory and statutory requirements, maximising the benefits to Thames Water, and taking responsibility for overseeing all construction activities on your projects from conception to completion whilst monitoring compliancewith our asset standards, safety, environmental, and quality standards, and with wider regulations.
You will actively promote the Thames Water ‘Three Zeros’ culture associated with our health and safety performance. These are, ‘Zero Incidents, Zero Harm & Zero Compromise.’
**What you should bring to the role**:

- **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**project delivery mechanisms, development of design, construction, and operation of infrastructure or 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 an exciting role, the key to the successful delivery of our portfolio of projects across various sites in the London area.You’ll be overseeing all construction activities on your projects from conception to completion monitoring compliance with ourasset standards, safety, environmental, and quality standards, and wider regulations.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days of holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service, and a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to saveyou money and support your wellbeing.
Thames Water is a dynamic, rewarding, and diverse place to work, with opportunities around every corner.If you join our team, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career, flexible working arrangements, and really great benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunityemployer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, and Disability Confident Leader employer.
Find out more about working at Thames Water
We deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities, and the environment can thrive. This means, that when a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to supportour customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues, and earn a bit of extra money along theway.