Mechanical Standards Engineer

What you’ll be responsible for

As a Mechanical Standards Engineer, you will be responsible for providing a steer on key mechanical engineering considerations for the development of strategic business plans or asset policies.  You will enable the delivery of these strategic business plans and asset policies by setting appropriate mechanical standards for the company, i.e. Technical Specifications, Standard Products, and Standard Drawings; and by assessing the acceptability of requests to deviate from the company’s mechanical standards on a case-by-case basis.

Your responsibilities will include: 
 

1. Develop, review and enable company-wide adoption of mechanical Technical Specifications, mechanical requirements for standard products and Standard Drawings in relation to water and wastewater processes and assets; respond to related Technical Queries.
2. Determine the acceptability of requests to deviate from the company’s mechanical standards based on impacts on cost, risk, performance and other appropriate factors.
3. Assure compliance to the company’s mechanical standards from internal teams and third parties completing work on their behalf.
4. Provide a steer on key mechanical engineering considerations for the development of strategic business plans for water and wastewater services or asset policies.
5. Provide expert mechanical engineering support to the Operations, Local Asset Management and Delivery teams.
6. Ensure that the company stays up-to-date with and adopts good practice by participating in appropriate external knowledge sharing / development and using internal and external benchmarking.
7. Work with Innovation, Operations and the supply chain to drive delivery of good practice in mechanical technology, systems and procedures from across and outside the water sector.
8. Support the Procurement team by preparing technical specifications for inclusion in procurement documents and undertaking technical evaluations of tenders and proposals from the supply chain.
9. Positively represent the Asset Planning team in working with and influencing internal and external stakeholders.

Who you’ll work with

Internal

•    Water and Wastewater Asset Management teams
•    Innovation teams
•    Operations, Capital Delivery, Water Network Alliance, Statutory Maintenance, Security, Energy, and Developer Services
•    Procurement
•    Health & Safety

External

•    UKWIR, Water UK
•    Economic and quality regulators (DWI, EA, NRW, Ofwat, CCW for example)
•    Water Industry Mechanical & Electrical Specifications (WIMES) Group
•    ProductHub Water Company Forum for Standard Products
•    Welsh Water supply chain including design consultants, suppliers and sub-contractors

About you

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience & Skills 
 

• Mechanical Engineering degree, and appropriate experience in mechanical engineering
• Chartered engineer or equivalent experience
• Experience in design engineering would be beneficial
• High level of understanding and experience of mechanical technology, systems and procedures including the requirements for Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (DSEAR)
• Ability to deliver innovative ideas and solutions and to provide support to operations and delivery teams
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team whilst maintaining day-to-day activities and tasks.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to produce a credible technical scope of work for others to follow
   

Good to know

• This role includes hybrid working 

For more information on the role please contact Rob.Dorr@dwrcymru.com

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:
 
 
•    Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
•    Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
•    Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
•    Enhanced family friendly policies
•    Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
•    Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
•    Cycle to work scheme
•    Free on-site parking at all our sites
•    Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
•    Car-leasing scheme
•    Health CashBack scheme
•    An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
 
 
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.
 
 
Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.
 
 
Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business.

 For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.
 

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.


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