Civil Engineer

Job title: Civil Engineer
Ref: 39127
Division: Asset Operations & Capital Delivery
Location: Hybrid - Clearwater Court - RG1 8DB
Contract type: Permanent
Full/Part-time: Full-time
Salary: Competitive salary from £40,000 to £50,000 per annum depending on skills and experience of the successful candidate.
Job grade: B
Closing date: 04/03/2025

Join our innovative Civil Engineering team as a Civil Engineer, where your skills will be essential in solving engineering challenges and delivering top-notch designs, calculations, drawings, specifications, and reports while ensuring regulatory compliance. Collaborating with the Senior Civil Engineer, you will conceptualise water and wastewater treatment works and infrastructure designs.

Your insights will help develop project briefs, ensuring we achieve optimal engineering solutions throughout our projects. Please become part of a sustainable engineering framework guiding Thames Water’s success as we move into AMP8 and beyond, positively impacting our community and the environment.

What you’ll be doing as a Civil Engineer:

• Analysing root causes of problems at our treatment works or in the network.
• Undertaking site visits.
• Ensuring that safe, sustainable designs are developed.
• Preparing calculations, designs, study reports, specifications, drawings and H&S documentation.
• Liaising with other engineering disciplines to ensure that the civil engineering design caters to their requirements.
• Providing civil engineering input into asset surveys, plant condition assessments, feasibility studies, optioneering, whole-life costing, and preliminary designs.

What you should bring to the role:

• Be educated to degree level or other appropriate technical qualification in Civil Engineering.
• Understand the regulatory environment to achieve compliance with our engineering regulatory requirements.
• Possess the ability to use your initiative and undertake tasks efficiently and independently.
• Have excellent communication and influencing skills to engage with our colleagues and stakeholders.
• Deliver exceptional service through a passionate and positive approach, taking accountability for your role while working accurately and flexibly within a busy team.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary from £40,000 to £50,000 per annum, depending on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of your and your family’s health and wellbeing and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Who are we?

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job, and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

So, if you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region and our planet.

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.