Lead Construction Assurance & Integration Engineer

Join Our Team as a Lead Construction & Integration Engineer!

Are you a skilled engineer passionate about overseeing complex construction projects from start to finish? Do you thrive in a role where your leadership directly impacts efficiency, compliance, and customer satisfaction? If so, we want you on our team!

As our Lead Construction and integration Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our water and wastewater network projects, ensuring smooth execution while maximising Thames Water's benefits. Your expertise will guide projects through feasibility, design, and construction phases, ensuring buildability and seamless delivery.

What you’ll be doing as a Lead Construction Assurance & Integration Engineer

• As the Lead Construction & Integration Engineer, you will manage the team, which includes direct reports and delivery partners. Your leadership will be instrumental in ensuring the team achieves project delivery outputs, driving performance and development, and fostering brilliant customer engagement.
• Take responsibility for team performance and improve engagement of all key stakeholders throughout the stage gate process (end to end).
• Encourage the team's capability to maintain a challenging assurance culture and ensure that engineers can competently and constructively review and advise.
• Input into lessons Learned reviews and ensure results are used in future projects.
• Identify risks and issues; report to key stakeholders; work with stakeholders to resolve them.
• Liaison with Operations and contractors to approve passing through key milestones.
• Monitor and review the contractor's construction assurance documentation.
• Working with the design teams and contractors to resolve issues promptly to minimise the impact on the programme and cost.
• Assisting the design teams (contractors and internal) with practical, buildable solutions to meet the brief.
• Promoting and monitoring contractor health and safety and working with contractors to address issues and improve site health and safety performance.
• Ensuring compliance with environmental requirements in asset design and delivery, monitoring delivery performance and working with contractors to address issues and improve.

Hybrid – Maple Lodge or Hampton Coal Wharf– Hybrid.

As part of this role, you must be on site 3-4 days a week, 36 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

The successful candidate must drive and have a car - this role comes with a car allowance of £4,500 a year.

What you should bring to the role

• Hold a Civil or Mechanical Engineering degree.
• Hold a NEBOSH General Certificate or have a strong knowledge of health and safety.
• Extensive knowledge of defining and supporting solutions to complex works.
• Background in working in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Understanding the development of design, construction and operation of infrastructure or non-infrastructure projects.
• Understanding of performance and quality management.
• Understanding of the stage gate process and intelligent client model.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary from £50,000 to £67,000 per annum.
• Car allowance of £4,500 a year.
• 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 well-being.

Find out more about our benefits and perks

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,b 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.

Learn more about our purpose and values

Working at Thames Water

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.
Whether you’re interested in a role in one of our call centres or science labs, we’re looking for people like you with real passion and a burning desire to make things better.

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.

The real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.

Our overarching aim is to ensure that Thames Water is a great, diverse and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process. We aim to remove any real or perceived barriers to success, so if you need assistance, we’re here to help and support.

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.