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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer


Thames Water Utilites
Location 

Reading

Employment Hours 

Full Time

Employment Type 

Permanent

Salary 

£48,080 - £72,120 per annum

Job Highlights
  • Are you a Senior Mechanical Engineer with a passion for innovation and problem-solving? Join our team to support the creation of the 'Intelligent Client' driving our AMP8 ambitions and beyond.
  • Your role will involve leading complex design processes in the water and wastewater industry, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring compliance with stringent design codes.
  • We offer 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays).
Job Requirements/Description

Are you a Senior Mechanical Engineer with a passion for innovation and problem-solving? Join our team to support the creation of the 'Intelligent Client' driving our AMP8 ambitions and beyond. Your role will involve leading complex design processes in the water and wastewater industry, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring compliance with stringent design codes.

As a critical team member, you will conduct root cause analysis investigations, provide technical input into project briefs, and oversee the development of new technologies for research projects. Additionally, you will be crucial in establishing a 'Centre of Excellence' for engineering and nurturing a sustainable engineering structure from graduate to industry experts.

Join us in shaping Thames Water's future of engineering. Your expertise and leadership will ensure our success in AMP8 and beyond.

What you’ll be doing as a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

  • Complete the design of complex engineering processes in the water and wastewater industry.
  • Support multidisciplinary teams in developing solutions to engineering challenges for operational plants to ensure adherence to stringent design codes.
  • Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams for mechanically biased projects.
  • Undertake equipment failure root cause analysis investigations to establish failure methods and reduce the impact and future occurrence.
  • Provide technical input into project definition briefs.
  • Provide mechanical input into asset surveys and plant condition assessments, feasibility studies, optioneering, whole-life costing, and preliminary designs.
  • Provide the technical sign-off and assurance during technical delivery, including handover.
  • Ensure we are compliant with engineering-based regulatory requirements in their area.
  • Support testing and development of new technologies for implementation in research projects.
  • Provide the technical sign-off (accountability) and assurance that the project needs will be fulfilled during technical delivery, including handover and commissioning.
  • Develop new tools (software, programs, Apps, etc.) to enhance the Engineering team's capabilities.
  • Support the establishment of a ‘Centre of Excellence’ for engineering.
  • Support the establishment of a cohesive, sustainable engineering structure from graduate to industry experts that leads Thames Water’s engineering requirements into AMP8 and beyond.
  • You must have a driver's licence and access to a vehicle for this role.

What you should bring to the role

  • Be a recognised senior engineer (Chartered or close to achieving Chartered Status) in Mechanical Engineering with considerable experience in the water industry or a closely related equivalent sector.
  • Be degree qualified or equivalent in mechanical engineering with chartership through a relevant awarding body/working towards chartership.
  • Have design engineer knowledge of a detailed design level.
  • Provide background on supporting quantity surveyors/cost estimating teams in the scope development for cost modelling and budgetary proposals.
  • Be knowledgeable in any of the following: pumps/pipe systems, sludge, gas/CHP systems, water/wastewater treatment process equipment.
  • Understand the regulatory environment to achieve compliance with our engineering regulatory requirements.

What’s in it for you? 

  • Competitive salary from £48,080 to £72,120 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 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.

Hybrid – Clearwater Court, you will be required in the office and on-site 2-3 days a week and as the business requires.

36 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

Thames Water Utilites
Location 

Reading

Employment Hours 

Full Time

Employment Type 

Permanent

Salary 

£48,080 - £72,120 per annum

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