Severn Trent

Senior Civil Design Engineer

Location
Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
12/12/2024
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Description
What do you get if you cross an award winning, innovative, water company and over 300 dedicated team members? Our Design team of course!

Our ambitious and innovative projects (all 5000+ of them) help to combat the challenges of waste and water infrastructure, flooding and water quality. Being part of our inhouse designers means we can do the best by our customers and our water.

If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you. There really is something for everyone here.

Do you like using your knowledge and expertise to solve problems and define solutions? Are you self-motivated and enthusiastic – looking to progress through the next stage of your career within a vibrant team who really strive to make a difference?

Do you want to do the best work of your life - playing your part in caring for the environment and communities we serve?

This is an exciting time as we are expanding our waste treatment design team. We have a senior civil design engineer vacancy for the right candidate. We are looking for a talented, bright, and dynamic civil engineer to join our team; a person who loves a technical challenge to drive our designs forward.

Ideally with a water, wastewater or utilities background, we are looking for an individual with a sound practical understanding of outline and detailed design who is great at communicating and influencing others with those brilliant ideas and who really understands how to think big.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

There are around 1,000 sewage treatment works within the Severn Trent Water region treating flows from hamlets through to some of Britain’s largest cities. Our Design Team uses their technical skills to shape the wastewater strategies for the company; providing expert advice to lead projects from feasibility through to detailed design to support the Severn Trent goals.

You will work with our stakeholders, consultants and contractors to protect and enhance the quality of our waste treatment assets and rivers; interrogate and make improvements to our data systems; undertake investigations so that we have the best evidence available from which we can make sound decisions.

If you join Severn Trent, you can expect to use your technical skills to work across several different areas, including: Sewage treatment assets - understanding our existing assets, completing risk assessments and short to long-term complex investigations.

Developing strategies to allow us to enhance the existing assets and inform the Price Review regulatory submissions; collaborating across the business as we build our river quality, sustainability and net zero carbon plans influencing the business to transition away from traditional investment routes.

Working within a multi-disciplinary design team, undertake the civil engineering design on your portfolio of projects. Coordinate the design across the different disciplines for your portfolio of projects.

Carry out self-led research on emerging technologies, to define new innovative treatment options and to collaborate both internally and externally to promote new strategies.

Promoting our ongoing waste treatment capital maintenance programme; ensuring that we have robust evidence-based understanding of how our waste treatment sites work to ensure final effluent quality is maintained. Tactical support and advice to operational teams to maintain the availability and quality of our waste treatment services for our customers.

What You’ll Bring To The Role

For this senior design engineer role, we want to attract those with the right experience but we also value character, positivity, and a caring attitude in equal weight. With skill sets in mind, we need a qualified civil design engineer with a proven track record in water, wastewater, or utility design.

You will have a degree in an engineering discipline (or similar) and a hold a breadth of knowledge and experience in the following areas: Significant experience in water, wastewater, sludge treatment or process technology

Understanding of core design and commissioning principles in water, wastewater, or sludge.

Proven analytical skills, Significant risk management knowledge and understanding, Experience of successful team-working

An understanding of the construction (design and management) regulations and how these apply to our designs, Track record of technical development, A track record of collaborative working with partner organisations and stakeholders, An understanding of the water industry and the regulatory price review.

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 – safeguarding customers water supplies and making the environment we live and work in a better place.

And when it comes to inclusion, we’re making sure we keep up the progress with our wonderful working groups – LGBTQ+, Women in Operations & STEM, Disability and Ethnicity, who help us do just that.

What’s In It For You

It’s not just a job you’ll get here, you’ll get a career too.

Benefits

We have a range of benefits that reward and recognise great work and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. 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 dependent 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’
  • Private medical cover, life assurance, income protection and personal accident cover
  • Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
  • Family friendly policies
  • Two volunteering days per year

WHATS NEXT?

We can’t wait to hear from you.

Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare. We’ll always let you know the outcome of your application after the closing date - so keep an eye on your phone and emails.

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