Construction Assurance Engineer Ref:31627
- Employer
- Thames Water
- Location
- Reading
- Salary
- On application
- Closing date
- Aug 26, 2022
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- Specialty
- Construction Engineering
- Position Type
- Engineer, Staff Engineer
- Organization Type
- Construction
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.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 doingYou will be ensuring our contractors are delivering the required assets to the time, quality, and cost expected of them.Involved during the design, construction, commissioning, and defects rectification period of the project: Ensuring buildability, efficient and effective delivery whilst safeguarding our site, compliance and process., regulatory and statutory requirements while maximizing benefits to Thames Water.Key Accountabilities
- Promote the Thames Water Three Zeros culture, monitoring contractor health and safety performance. Monitor and audit contractor Health and Safety performance against their Business Management System, and contractual and statutory obligations. Identify deficiencies; escalate and work with the contractor to improve.
- Support the well-being of team members and colleagues.
- Monitor contractor compliance with environmental requirements in asset design and delivery, monitor delivery performance, and work with contractors to address issues and improve.
- Ensure compliance with current CDM regulations.
- Engage with Asset Management and Operations; identifying synergies and using lessons learned from previous projects to agree on the most effective solutions.
- Support the assessment and appointment of contractors.
- Ensure project objectives are clear and agreed upon by all stakeholders.
- Support contractor and Operations liaison during the design process, promoting innovation, best practice, and compliance with quality standards; planning for system integration, operability, and maintainability.
- Support key design reviews (Solutions review / Challenge Workshop, HAZOP, HAZCOM, SWIFT.
- Coach contractors/team members new to TW and/or the AMP7 delivery model
- Support construction team to innovate on-site, assist with the resolution of constructability issues
- Raise technical queries based on the constructed product
- Up-to-date awareness of project risks and aim to minimized/target savings
- Verify the Preconstruction checklist is adequately developed to ensure ‘start on site' milestones are met
- Team up with Asset Integrators to monitor and review component (FAT / SAT) testing and commissioning, ensuring all commissioning activities defined in the commissioning plan are satisfactorily completed.
- HNC or above in an appropriate engineering subject or significant experience in a similar role
- NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate or SMSTS
- Knowledge and understanding of processes used in Water / Wastewater / Networks as appropriate.
- Understanding of the development of design, construction, and operation of infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects.
- Strong written and verbal communication and influencing
- tactical planning
- Technical Knowledge and ability to assimilate new information
- Analytical
- Innovative problem solving
- Team working
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