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Civil Engineer

Employer
Pertemps Thames Water
Location
Reading, RG1
Salary
£40000 - £50000/annum
Closing date
Nov 27, 2024
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Specialty
Other
Position Type
Engineer, Staff Engineer
Organization Type
Firm, Consulting Engineering
Join our innovative Civil Engineering team as a Civil Engineer, where your skills will be essential in solving engineering challenges and delivering top-notch designs, calculations, drawings, specifications, and reports while ensuring regulatory compliance. Collaborating with the Senior Civil Engineer, you will conceptualise water and wastewater treatment works and infrastructure designs.

Your insights will help develop project briefs, ensuring we achieve optimal engineering solutions throughout our projects. Please become part of a sustainable engineering framework guiding Thames Water's success as we move into AMP8 and beyond, positively impacting our community and the environment.

What you'll be doing

Analysing root causes of problems at our treatment works or in the network.
Undertaking site visits.
Ensuring that safe, sustainable designs are developed.
Preparing calculations, designs, study reports, specifications, drawings and H&S documentation.
Liaising with other engineering disciplines to ensure that the civil engineering design caters for their requirements.
Provide civil engineering input into asset surveys, plant condition assessments, feasibility. studies, optioneering, whole-life costing, and preliminary designs.Based in Hybrid, Clearwater Court, you will be required on-site as part of your role requires you to, on average 2-3 days a week.

36 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

What you should bring to the role

Be educated to degree level or other appropriate technical qualification in Civil Engineering.
Understand the regulatory environment to achieve compliance with our Engineering regulatory requirements.
Possess the ability to use your initiative and undertake tasks efficiently and independently.
Have excellent communication and influencing skills to engage with our colleagues and stakeholders clearly.
Deliver exceptional service through a passionate and positive approach, taking accountability for your role while working accurately and flexibly within a busy team.What's in it for you?

Competitive salary from £40,000 to £50,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience of the successful candidate.
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 includes our benefits hub, which is packed with offers and information to save 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 complimentary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, background, 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

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