Senior Project Engineer

We are expanding our Engineering Team and looking for a Senior Project Engineer to deliver projects in our Southern operating region. The advert intentionally seeks an internal candidate to provide a development opportunity for current NWG Project Engineers. We are looking for Project Engineers who can demonstrate previous experience delivering high complexity / value projects within NWG.

You will work for a Principal Engineer, and work as part of a team of Project Engineers within the Assets Directorate at Northumbrian Water. The Engineering team are accountable for providing Engineering support and input to our construction projects, writing technical standards, supporting option studies, ensuring our contracts are correctly set up for success, working with the Project Management team and Contractors to design and build our projects and ensuring commissioning and handover is done correctly. You will play a key part in ensuring delivery of safe, reliable assets that provide reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

You will be expected to take proactive ownership of a range of improvement initiatives for the benefit of the Engineering department wider business.

You will operate as a trusted project professional, ensuring NWG makes the best TOTEX and value-based decisions with asset longevity at the forefront of delivery. The role requires a strong Health and Safety focus to implement safe systems of work and address any practices which pose a risk to colleagues. You will support the onsite delivery of construction projects through stakeholder management of the supply chain and ensure the assets in construction maintain operational performance whilst optimising the integration of new equipment into our asset base.

In support of our position as a Capable Owner, you will champion the Engineering Team as a technical authority, providing technical challenge where needed, particularly in the early lifecycle stages, ensuring accurate and robust technical documentation and contractual documentation is in place at the earliest stages. This includes providing engineering assurance throughout the lifecycle to ensure our contractors design and build assets that are fit for purpose and then ensuring the handover to Operations is effective. You will provide technical advice and guidance as needed to business stakeholders.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team which means we have a wide range of technical disciplines including mechanical, electrical, civil, instrumentation, geo-technical, environmental and process.

The successful candidate will have experience working effectively as part of a team. This means you will be prepared to ask questions and offer answers and advice whilst demonstrating the ability to work independently and autonomously.

You will demonstrate a structured approach and capability to offer impartial and balanced engineering views, supported by data and analysis where appropriate. You will be a proven engineering professional with experience of successfully delivering complex water and waste-water projects, be able to demonstrate effective leadership, communications skills and company values. This will include developing and driving team initiatives in areas such as process governance, technical assurance, innovation and HSEQ.

In addition you will be able to build strong and successful stakeholder relationships within the Engineering Team as well as other departments including Capital Delivery, Asset Intelligence, Maintenance and Operational Teams.

The successful candidate must support the continuing establishment, growth, and promotion of the team. This role requires excellent interpersonal skills and established leadership behaviours that encourage and support development, inclusivity, and progression at both an individual and departmental level.

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

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