The Environmental Engineering Manager at Thames Water is crucial in driving environmental initiatives and ensuring regulatory compliance. They lead a team responsible for key functions, including setting environmental expectations on capital projects, developing the carbon strategy, and providing environmental input in various projects and initiatives. Their work is instrumental in promoting sustainability, biodiversity, and nature-based solutions within the organisation. By staying updated on environmental legislation and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, they ensure that Thames Water meets its environmental responsibilities effectively.
This role is a secondment role for up to 6 months.
What you’ll be doing as an Environmental Engineering Manager
- Managing the Environmental Engineering team.
- Establishing a cohesive, sustainable engineering structure from graduates to industry experts that lead Thames Water’s engineering requirements into AMP8 and beyond.
- Developing and enabling our carbon strategy.
- Including Biodiversity and Heritage protection from the project definition.
- Providing environmental support to Asset management projects definition.
- Providing environmental input in PR 24.
- Raising awareness of environmental developments and engineering solutions.
- Keeping up to date with relevant changes in environmental legislation and initiatives.
- Working with consultants, contractors, and teams across Thames Water to identify risks and constraints and implement solutions at project definition stages.
- Setting environmental expectations on capital schemes, carbon, increasing biodiversity and promoting nature-based solutions.
- Define, develop, and maintain environmental engineering competencies across the business.
- Provide technical sign-off and assurance during technical delivery, including handover.
- Devising the best tools and systems to monitor performance and implement strategies.
- Assessing, analysing, and collating environmental performance data and reporting information to stakeholders.
Hybrid – Clearwater Court, you will be required in the office and on-site as the business requires you.
36 hours a week, Monday - Friday.
What you should bring to the role
- Be a highly experienced and recognised environmental engineering leader with several years working within the water industry.
- Understand the regulatory environment to achieve compliance with our engineering regulatory requirements.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, both internally and externally.
- Be collaborative and can influence senior colleagues.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent, likely in an engineering discipline with a postgraduate qualification and preferably with a professional chartership.
- A passion for continuous professional development and an active approach to driving diversity within our engineering function at Thames Water.
- Good budget management experience.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary.
- This role will have a car allowance of £5800 per annum.
- 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
- Annual Bonus.
- Private Medical Health Care.
- 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.
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 complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, 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.
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