Senior Mechanical Engineer

What you’ll be responsible for

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will lead, motivate and support a team of Mechanical Engineers across Wales to ensure projects are designed within statutory, regulatory and financial outputs of the DCWW business plan whilst engaging and motivating a team to achieve their maximum level of performance. 
 

Your responsibilities will include: 
 

1. Ensure projects are designed safely on time, within budget and to the desired quality, working closely with other members of the Capital Engineering Team and with other business stakeholders.
2. Lead, motivate and support the Engineering Team across Wales to ensure projects are designed within the statutory, regulatory, and financial outputs of the DCWW Business Plan while always complying with DCWW procurement processes.
3. Participate in training & development in accordance with all Human Resource policies and procedures, including regular contact with your line manager, one to one meeting, performance reviews, identification and fulfilment of safety training needs and development needs.
4. Comply with the Capital Delivery Health & Safety plan through the application of appropriate H&S strategies and ensure all designs comply with the CDM Regulations 2015. 
5. Ensure that engineering activities are carried out uniformly and to the appropriate DCWW standard specifications. Engage in a robust design review process of technical proposals, 3rd party designs and provide expert professional guidance to the business as required including mentoring others in the Capital Delivery Team.
6. Contribute to the achievement of the Capital Delivery business plan which will be used to monitor and improve the effectiveness of the in-house engineering department.  This includes working with our alliance partners, major framework contractors, our procurement teams, and our supply chain to ensure that we guarantee cost effective and efficient delivery of the annual project workload.
7. Input into and participate in robust monthly reporting and reviews.
8. Identify and implement best practice from across the water and other sectors of the construction industry.
9. Implement appropriate metrics to measure performance of teams and individuals to ensure a best-in-class engineering department that can demonstrate value for money on all projects.
10. Oversee the selection, induction, performance appraisal and training of the engineering team staff to ensure an overall increase in knowledge, experience, responsibility and individual accountability for work related actions.
11. Develop close working relationships with the Asset Strategy, Asset Planning, Supply Chain, Operations and Delivery Teams to ensure continued alignment of strategy and delivery.
12. Maintenance of key performance indicators to monitor and improve the effectiveness of the Mechanical & Electrical engineering department.

Who you’ll work with

Internal
•    Capital Delivery Team
•    Asset Strategy, Asset Planning, Operations, Commercial and Finance Teams
•    All levels of management within DCWW
•    Programme Delivery Teams
•    Alliance Partner & Major Framework companies.

External
•    Local Authorities including Planning Departments and Highways Departments
•    Distribution Network Operators
•    Framework Suppliers & Partners
•    Regulators NRW/ DWI/ Ofwat, UKWIR, Water UK, Consumer Council for Water Wales
•    Framework Contractors as part of our supply chain

About you

Knowledge, Skills & Experience 

• Qualified to degree level and a Chartered Engineer.
• Design experience, preferably in the Water Industry.
• A wide range of project and people management skills are required, combined with strong experience in the design of capital projects within the water industry or similar.
• An ability to think strategically in terms of lifetime costs; by identifying a range of possible solutions and presenting a coherent rationale for a recommended action.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplined engineering team environment whilst maintaining effective day to day delivery of services.
• The ability to work to tight regulatory and project deadlines.
   

Good to know

• Car allowance is included 

For more information on the role please contact Michael.James@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.