Engineer; B3) Pumps & Drainage

Company: TfL, GLA or OPDC

Salary: £61,500.00
Grade: Pay Band 3

Contract type: TfL Reference: 5837

Final date to receive applications: 14th of October at 23:59

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

Please note that this role may occasionally require night shift working. On average, you should expect to work approximately one night shift per month; however, the frequency may vary depending on operational and business requirements.

Play a vital role in keeping London moving by providing specialist Pumps and Drainage engineering expertise that supports TfL’s operations, strategic objectives, major projects, and asset management programmes. Working across the full asset lifecycle, you will influence everything from planning and design through to construction, maintenance, and operational performance, helping to deliver safe, reliable, and resilient infrastructure for millions of customers.

You will be at the forefront of protecting and enhancing critical Pumps and Drainage assets, ensuring their safety, integrity, and efficiency while addressing the challenges of an evolving transport network. This includes contributing to initiatives that strengthen resilience against extreme weather events and the impacts of climate change, helping to safeguard the network for the future.

The role also offers the opportunity to take ownership of asset risk management activities, maintaining and developing STRATA risk assessments for London Underground Pumps and Drainage assets, as well as equivalent risk management frameworks across other TfL assets. Through your technical expertise and proactive approach, you will play a key role in driving continuous improvement, informed decision-making, and long-term asset sustainability.

• Ensures the safety, functionality or compliance of low to medium risk newly implemented or altered assets, engineering processes, procedures or systems
• Leads the development and implementation of low complexity engineering solutions within their stated discipline or functional specialism, through the application of defined engineering standards and governance
• Provides internal stakeholders with appropriate challenge and professional advice to ensure the development or delivery of high quality, tested engineering solutions
• Undertakes on-site risk-based monitoring and surveillance of works as required, resolving and or escalating risks and issues as appropriate
• Maintains working knowledge of applicable standards, design codes and legislation applicable to their discipline or functional specialism
• Evaluates, selects and applies appropriate solutions to low risk/value/complexity engineering problems that improve efficiency or effectiveness, while improving safety and reducing operating costs.
• Makes technical recommendations for own discipline or functional specialism to customers or senior management to inform technical decision making
• Supports continuous improvement through the use of best practice, innovation, whole life cost optimisation and effective root cause analysis

• Ideally either a Member or working towards Membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers or other relevant internationally recognised institution.
  
  - desirable
• Knowledge of legislation, technical standards and industry best practice related to Pumps and Drainage – Essential
• Knowledg…