Construction Assurance Engineer

As a Construction Assurance Engineer at Thames Water, join our Capital Delivery Construction Assurance and Asset Integration teams to oversee the safe and timely delivery of assets. Your role spans the project lifecycle, from design to post-takeover, ensuring quality, cost-efficiency, and compliance. Make an impact with us!

What you’ll be doing as a Construction Assurance Engineer

• Supporting essential design and delivery reviews, identifying risks and issues, and working with stakeholders to resolve them.
• Focused on the construction phase of projects, assessing and reporting project progress, acting to rectify matters, and taking the lead on the escalation process if necessary. Also, ensuring all non-conformance is identified and rectified.
• Ensuring all commissioning activities, including takeover testing, are defined in the commissioning plan and are satisfactorily completed and recorded.
• Managing identification and resolution of snags and after Take Over liaising with Operators and contractors to manage the defects and aftercare process’ and performance testing.
• Monitoring, agreeing, and approving Take Over tests with the project team.
• Ensuring that required project documentation meets our specifications and approving information for taking over.
• Working as an active member of one or more project teams with one or more of our contractors.

Hybrid– Maple Lodge Sewage Treatment Works

36 hours a week, Monday to Friday. This role will require you to be in the office and on-site 3-4 days a week

What you should bring to the role

• Have an HNC or above in Civil engineering subject or background in a similar role.
• Have a significant Health and safety qualification National Examination Board in Occupational Safety or Institution of Occupational Safety and Health or Construction Certificate, hold a Site Management Safety certificate, or be willing to gain one.
• Be driven, resilient, and tenacious under pressure, wanting to deliver projects on time, cost, and quality.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to interact with our stakeholders and contractors.
• Foster a positive Health and safety culture within the team and contractors, ensuring we assert all environmental and Health and safety statutory obligations.

What’s in it for you?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing, highly engaged team that is involved with the construction of various projects within Thames Water. You’ll be at the forefront of the modernisation of Thames Water Assets and modern engineering.

• Competitive salary from £40,000 to £55,000 per annum.
• 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Who are we?

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.

Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water

At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

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 support our 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 some extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.