Senior Engineer (Operational Technology)

Salary - Competitive Salary

Work Type - Hybrid

Job Location - Lingley Mere (UU), Lingley Green Avenue, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5 3LP

Role Type - Permanent

Employment Type - Full Time

Working Hours - 37.0 Hours per Week

United Utilities’ (UU) purpose is to deliver great water for a stronger, greener and healthier North West of England. We are committed to providing our services in a way that respects the environment, supports the economy, and benefits society.

We value diversity, inclusion and innovation in our workplace, and we foster a culture where our people can grow, excel, and be themselves.

We uphold our ethics, values and business model to fulfil our mission and, by setting clear goals and objectives, we create sustainable long-term value for our colleagues, customers and communities. Whether you work with a team that shares your vision or join a network of peers with similar interests, you will find a welcoming and supportive organisation to be part of.

We’ve got a lot to offer. You’ll be part of a thriving FTSE 100 company and will enjoy a range of core benefits that reflect your value and value contribution.

The role

• A generous annual leave package of 26 days, which increases to 30 days after four years of service (increases one day per year), in addition to 8 bank holidays
• A competitive pension scheme with up to 14% employer contribution, 21% combined, and life cover
• Up to 10.5% performance-related bonus scheme, as well as recognition awards for outstanding achievements
• A comprehensive healthcare plan through our company-funded scheme
• MyGymDiscounts - gym and wellness benefit that offers up to 25% off on gym memberships and digital fitness subscriptions
• Best Doctors
• Salary Finance
• Wealth at Work courses
• Deals and discounts
• EVolve Car Scheme
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Mental health first aiders
• ShareBuy
• MORE Choices flexible benefits
• Enhanced parental leave schemes

Key accountabilities

Are you an Instrumentation and Control Engineer? Are you seeking a fulfilling career that utilises your expertise and promises personal development, along with the opportunity to work on large-scale and sustainable projects within your local county within the North West? If so, United Utilities (UU) has an exciting opportunity for you to join our Operational Technology (OT) Regional Engineering team in a pivotal role that will help ensure the successful realisation of our strategic goals in the North West of England.

Travel will be localised to your resident county with team collaborations at our head office site at Lingley Mere, Warrington.

As a Senior Operational Technology Engineer, you will design and develop instrumentation, control, automation and telemetry systems for water and wastewater systems, both at process sites and within natural water networks. Reporting to a Principal OT Engineer, you will collaborate with our Systems Integration Partners, Operational and Project delivery teams across the business building and maintaining strong relationships with internal clients and external partners. You will be expected to work as the OT lead working with other disciplines (Electrical, Civil, Hydraulic, Mechanical, Modelling and Process etc) on large scale projects.

As a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Operational Technology, you will be aligned to a region (Lancashire, Merseyside, Manchester or Cheshire - subject to preference) to help our operational teams address engineering challenges, optimise existing performance and provide design and technical advice. Your role includes supporting the capital programme, offering operational engineering support, and conducting studies and investigations. You will manage projects involving data analysis, design, document preparation, and proposal reviews.

Skills & experience

• To maintain and develop Operational Technology Engineering expertise, embracing innovative new technologies and designs while providing project-specific Engineering design and issue resolution expertise.
• Provide SME support for process optimisation, incident responce and reporting.
• To provide input to the development of the UU Operational Technology Engineering standards, systems and procedures and ensure that activities undertaken and engineering outputs provided are in accordance with Health, Safety and Cyber Security Legislation and accepted practice.
• To work with suppliers and partners to develop technology roadmaps and provide strategic guidance for managing obsolescence and the deployment of new technologies.
• To provide guidance on Operational Technology, cyber security, instrumentation and control topics within United Utilities.
• To assist in second line, escalated support as required to maintain operations; and recommend optimisation opportunities and suitable long-term solutions to address any operational issues.
• To provide supervision and guidance of Graduate Engineers and Technicians and support the Monitoring and Control Principal Engineer.

Other

• Technical understanding of OT architectures, experience in the application of Fieldbus and industrial networking for site control systems.
• Understanding of hardware architecture design, cyber security and connectivity to deliver OT solutions against a backdrop of an IT environment. Aware of the cyber security risks and mitigations associated with deployment and maintenance of OT solutions.
• Ability to practically apply available and emerging technologies within OT engineering to deliver robust, reliable, commissionable, operable and maintainable plants within a live operational environment.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience of the OT discipline, processes, concepts and best practice.
• Excellent communication skills able to lead a team of professional Engineers with full responsibility for technical outputs.
• Communication skills; good working knowledge of the interfaces with other disciplines (e.g. Electrical, Civil, Hydraulic, Mechanical, Modelling and Process) and evidence of working with suppliers of services and equipment in the development of design solutions, standards and specifications.

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer (or working towards) with post-graduate experience and a good background knowledge of the OT Engineering discipline

We rely on every employee to ensure our customers receive the best possible service, day in, day out. In return, we ensure that you will be well rewarded for your efforts, from an excellent salary through to development opportunities that will really kick start a thriving career here at UU.