Reservoir Safety Engineer​/Supervising Panel Engineer

About the role

Reservoir Safety Engineer (Reservoirs & Dams) / Supervising Panel Engineer

Full Time - Permanent (flexible working available)

Salary Band – up to £77,000+ Car Allowance & an excellent benefits package

Location – South-East England covering primarily our Essex and Suffolk operating areas with travel to our reservoirs in our northern operating area.

Are you looking to take the next step in your civil engineering career and want a role with genuine purpose where you can make real impact?

We have an amazing opportunity to become a Reservoir Safety Engineer covering Essex & Suffolk. This role is your chance to make a positive difference using your expertise to help provide safe, clean and lasting drinking water for our customers.

If you’re creative and have great problem-solving skills with a safety focused approach we want to hear from you!

We strive to be national leader in achieving and maintaining the highest standards of reservoirs & dam safety. Our approach emphasises innovation and collaboration as one team, working diligently to reduce the risk of failures, protect communities, the environment and improve compliance. This is achieved through effective surveillance, monitoring, examination, and inspection.

As a member of the Reservoir Safety Team, you will support the company as undertaker of the current portfolio of Large Raised Reservoirs where we have ultimate responsibility for the safety of the reservoir.

Working collaboratively with our colleagues and partners to manage the safety of our dams, related infrastructure, and ensuring compliance with the Reservoirs Act 1975. You will provide expert technical support to our internal teams regarding potential or actual Reservoir Act compliance and reservoir safety issues.

We have made good progress in delivering improvements to our reservoir safety operations over recent years and we are looking for you to make further improvements and to support with the development of long‑term strategies for our reservoir safety operations, considering the Reservoirs Act 1975 and the Floods and Water Management Act 2010.

This role requires a creative individual who excels in strategic thinking and problem solving.

• You’ll build and maintain positive working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.
• You should have excellent communication skills and a strong ability to influence decision making at all levels.
• Ideally you will be able to demonstrate effective project management of civil engineering projects taking into consideration Health & Safety, Company, and Legislative procedures and budget constraints.
• To be successful within the role you will need to have detailed working knowledge of the Reservoirs Act 1975 and of knowledge of dam construction, monitoring and maintenance.
• Writing and interpreting technical reports is essential, you must be confident in this space.
• You’ll also be able to use relevant Microsoft packages.

The position requires you to be appointed to the Supervising Engineers (England and Wales) joint panel.

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 26 days plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
• Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free…