LET’S CUT STRAIGHT TO IT
Want to do the best work of your life? Playing your part in making a big difference to the environment and communities we serve. Our people make Severn Trent a truly exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.
Our purpose is taking care of life’s essentials, but we’re also big on making a difference, not just because we should but because we care. Which is why we are investing over £3billion into waste treatment construction projects over the next five years to improve the services we provide.
We have a brilliant opportunity to join our Capital and Commercial Services directorate as a Principal Engineer in our Waste Treatment Technical Team.
Reporting directly to the Waste Treatment Technical Lead our Principal Engineers play a key role in ensuring the successful delivery of our Capital Programme. They work alongside our Design Manager managers to provide the technical oversight and leadership to an integrated team of staff and consultants developing engineering and process solutions. You will work alongside your team and the supply chain partners to develop a strong working relationship with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the successful design, delivery and handover of projects.
You will be a Chartered Engineer with the highest of standards in maintaining your discipline expertise and with a wide understanding of Waste Treatment processes, technologies and solutions. You will have extensive experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams and will understand the responsibility of providing overarching oversight across the varied aspects of engineering design.
Sound like you? Please read on.
LET’S TELL YOU MORE
Your key accountabilities in helping us will be:
- To stand as the technical authority and so lead on all technical aspects of optioneering and design for a variety of waste treatment projects, driving innovative, efficient, environment friendly, safe to build and operate with least whole life cost solutions.
- To provide technical support to the Waste Treatment Core Design Team and play a key role in developing the technical capability of team members through coaching, mentoring and supporting the Design Managers and Business Leads to identify development opportunities for individual designers.
- To supervise the creation of designs and specifications for waste water treatment projects which include consideration of health & safety; environment; buildability; customer impact; third party constraints/permissions/approvals; commissioning; operation and maintenance; appropriate legislation and regulations.
- Identify and review deviations from Severn Trent’s standards and support the Project Management Team in taking these deviations to the relevant standards owners or Standards Approval Board for approval.
- Ensure Severn Trent’s H&S standards are adhered to in relation to the design, in particular standards relating to functional safety, HazOp, HazCon, DSEAR and the CDM Regs.
- Communicate lessons learned from the project to the wider business and develop younger and less experienced engineers working on the programme of work, driving innovation and develop new approaches and solutions
- Establish network of internal and external stakeholders across your discipline to capture learnings, understand innovation and best practice and build into the plans for Capital Design technical standards.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Of course, it’s important that we attract the right skill sets, and those with the right experience but we value character, positivity, and a caring attitude in equal weight.
We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We employ thousands of people from across our community who really care about what they do. Because that is how we do what we do.
We do more, because we care.
HOW WE’LL REWARD AND CARE FOR YOU IN RETURN
It’s not just a job you’ll get here, you’ll get a career too. We have a range of benefits that reward and recognise great work and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the community in which we live. Here’s some of our favourites:
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
- Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250 per annum based on company performance)
- Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
- Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
- Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’
- Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
- Family friendly policies
- Two volunteering days per year
LET’S GO
Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.
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