Environmental Engineering Manager

The Environmental Engineering Manager at Thames Water is crucial in driving environmental initiatives and ensuring regulatory compliance. They lead a team responsible for key functions, including setting environmental expectations on capital projects, developing the carbon strategy, and providing environmental input in various projects and initiatives. Their work is instrumental in promoting sustainability, biodiversity, and nature-based solutions within the organisation. By staying updated on environmental legislation and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, they ensure that Thames Water meets its environmental responsibilities effectively.

This role is a secondment role for up to 6 months.

What you’ll be doing as an Environmental Engineering Manager

• Managing the Environmental Engineering team.
• Establishing a cohesive, sustainable engineering structure from graduates to industry experts that lead Thames Water’s engineering requirements into AMP8 and beyond.
• Developing and enabling our carbon strategy.
• Including Biodiversity and Heritage protection from the project definition.
• Providing environmental support to Asset management projects definition.
• Providing environmental input in PR 24.
• Raising awareness of environmental developments and engineering solutions.
• Keeping up to date with relevant changes in environmental legislation and initiatives.
• Working with consultants, contractors, and teams across Thames Water to identify risks and constraints and implement solutions at project definition stages.
• Setting environmental expectations on capital schemes, carbon, increasing biodiversity and promoting nature-based solutions.
• Define, develop, and maintain environmental engineering competencies across the business.
• Provide technical sign-off and assurance during technical delivery, including handover.
• Devising the best tools and systems to monitor performance and implement strategies.
• Assessing, analysing, and collating environmental performance data and reporting information to stakeholders.

Hybrid – Clearwater Court, you will be required in the office and on-site as the business requires you.

36 hours a week, Monday - Friday.

What you should bring to the role

• Be a highly experienced and recognised environmental engineering leader with several years working within the water industry.
• Understand the regulatory environment to achieve compliance with our engineering regulatory requirements.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, both internally and externally.
• Be collaborative and can influence senior colleagues.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent, likely in an engineering discipline with a postgraduate qualification and preferably with a professional chartership.
• A passion for continuous professional development and an active approach to driving diversity within our engineering function at Thames Water.
• Good budget management experience.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary.
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays) 
• Car Allowance.
• Annual Bonus.
• Private Medical Health Care.
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of your and your family’s health and well-being, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

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Who are we?

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Learn more about our purpose and values

Working at Thames Water

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.
Whether you’re interested in a role in one of our call centres or science labs, we’re looking for people like you with real passion and a burning desire to make things better.

So, if you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region and our planet.

The real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.

Our overarching aim is to ensure that Thames Water is a great, diverse and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process. We aim to remove any real or perceived barriers to success, so if you need assistance, we’re here to help and support you.

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.