Construction Assurance Engineer

As a Construction Assurance Engineer at Thames Water, you will ensure the safe, timely, and budget-friendly delivery of Thames Water assets to the highest quality standards.

Your expertise will guide projects through design, construction, commissioning, and post-takeover phases, prioritising compliance and buildability. In this role, you will uphold regulatory obligations and maximise benefits for Thames Water, overseeing all construction activities from start to finish. Your commitment to safety, environmental, and quality standards is essential. Working within the Major Projects division, you'll tackle large-scale, complex schemes (generally over £30 million) that require robust technical and project management skills. Collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll ensure projects meet our strategic needs while adhering to time, cost, and quality commitments.

Your role will be critical to our infrastructure's future, engaging with departments like Operations, Health & Safety, and Engineering. Based at East Hyde Sewage Treatment Works, your site presence is essential, and you will receive support, tools, and training to enhance your skills and advance your career.

What you’ll be doing as a Construction Assurance Engineer

• Supporting critical design reviews, identifying risks and issues, and working with stakeholders to resolve them.
• Focussed on the construction phase of projects: assessing and reporting project progress, acting to rectify issues, and taking the lead on the escalation process if necessary. Also, all non-conformances must be identified and corrected.
• Monitor and review component factory and site acceptance tests, ensuring all commissioning activities defined in the plan are satisfactorily completed.
• Managed identification and resolution of snags and, after taking over, liaised with operators and contractors to manage the defect process and performance testing.
• Monitoring, agreeing, and approving Take Over tests.

Hybrid – Slough or Maple Lodge Sewage Treatment works
36 hours a week, Monday to Friday. This role will require you to be in the office and site-based 3 days a week. The successful candidate for this role must have a driver's licence and access to a car.

What you should bring to the role

• Have an HNC or above in an appropriate engineering subject or background in a similar role.
• Have a significant health and safety qualification: National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH), Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), or hold a Site Management Safety certificate or be willing to gain one.
• Understand the design, construction, and operations development within Thames Water.
• Be driven, resilient, and tenacious under pressure. Want to deliver projects on time, at a reasonable cost, and with quality.
• Foster a positive health and safety culture within the team and contractors, ensuring all environmental and health and safety statutory obligations are met.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary from £40,000 to £55,000 per annum
• Car Allowance £5.800
• 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.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.