Structural/Civil Engineer (Welsh Water)

What you’ll be responsible for

What we do

The Civil design team in Dwr Cymru/Welsh Water (DCWW) are responsible for the delivery of a planned capital maintenance programme that will spend approximately £80M per year until 2025 on new and existing potable and wastewater assets in Wales.  The design engineering department are part of the internal capital delivery team of DCWW and as such are part of the capital delivery alliance that along with partner companies design and deliver a wide range of capital projects throughout Wales.

What you’ll do

As a competent Civil design engineer you will join part of our Capital Delivery team providing engineering support to our major investment programme as part of the Capital Delivery Alliance in AMP7 and beyond. The projects included within the programme vary in scale and complexity encompassing maintenance and improvement works to all of Welsh Water’s assets. This could include dams, pipelines, treatment works, pumping stations, and various others within our ownership throughout Wales providing a varied range of projects in the water industry.  

1.    Ensure projects are designed safely on time and within budget, working closely with other members of the Capital Engineering Team and with other business stakeholders.

2.    Lead, motivate and support the Civil Engineering Team across Wales to ensure projects are designed within the statutory, regulatory, and financial outputs of the Welsh Water Business Plan while complying with Welsh Water procurement processes at all times.

3.    Participate in training & development in accordance with all Human Resource policies and procedures, including regular contact with your line manager, one to one meetings, 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 Welsh Water 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 Alliance business plan which will be used to monitor and improve the effectiveness of the in-house design department.  This includes working with our alliance partners, our procurement teams, and our supply chain to ensure that we guarantee cost effective and efficient delivery of the annual project workload.
 

Who you’ll work with

Internal
•    Capital Delivery Team
•    Asset Strategy, Asset Planning, Operations, Commercial and Finance Teams
•    All levels of management within Welsh Water
•    Programme Delivery Teams
•    Alliance Partner companies.
•    Welsh Water Legal
•    Developer Services

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, and Experience

• Qualified to degree level and a Chartered Engineer (or working towards CEng).
• Design experience 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

Location: North Wales (Kinmel Park) or  South Wales (Ty-Awen / Clydach) – to be discussed at interview.

Flexible working - there will be an expectation to attend key meetings and be a presence in the office to ensure the development of junior engineers in your team.

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact: recruitment@dwrcymru.com and enter the job ID in the subject title line.

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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