Senior Project Engineer - Water Industry

Stepps, Scotland, United Kingdom

11/29/2024

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Project Engineer to Join our Water Consultancy business. As a Senior Project Engineer you will provide technical leadership and guidance to a project team focused on delivering water quality solutions in the delivery of projects to ensure accurate and efficient project delivery in terms of quality, time, and budget.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate good leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, drive our high-performance culture, work through our behaviours and our HR principles, and create a work environment that supports everyone to be and achieve their best.

About You

As a key member of the Water Consultancy business, your role as Senior Project Engineer is critical to helping us deliver great projects for our Water Industry clients. You will be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team of water project experts on a range of capital delivery projects.

By joining us, you're not just taking on exciting projects and collaborating with leading minds. You're making a meaningful impact on millions of lives the UK, leaving a legacy for generations to come. As a valuable member of our team, you'll play a crucial role in the water industry, and work with the largest water companies in the region, ensuring a positive and enduring influence on the communities we serve. If you're ready to contribute your skills and expertise to a dynamic and innovative environment, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

Your Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to a number of project teams in the delivery of projects to ensure accurate and efficient project delivery in terms of quality, time and budget.
• Guidance and support to less experienced colleagues working within your project team and beyond.
• You will be expected to interact with clients at project level and attend and lead project meetings internally and with clients.
• You will be expected to communicate clearly and concisely in all communications and understand when to escalate concerns or issues to your line manager.
• Meet all responsibilities as outlined in the RPS HSE policy and management systems.
• Participate in and/or lead any training and safety initiatives implemented by RPS.
• Take ownership for the delivery of multiple water quality schemes for specific client projects in accordance with project objectives (which you have agreed with the Client), undertaking and leading processes in line with specific Client Standards and Specifications.
• Take responsibility and ownership for the delivery of engineering aspects of projects or specific tasks/stages, ensuring best practice engineering principles are applied and industry standard and specification compliance.
• Ensure any changes that impact your projects which have been agreed between the framework manager and the client are actioned and controlled.
• Support line management with reactive opportunities.
  
  

Skills, Knowledge, And Experience

• You will be expected to demonstrate significant experience in an engineering background at either a consultancy, water company or regulator.
• Large understanding of the water industry, regulatory frameworks, water networks.
• Proven track record of leading multiple engineering teams.
• Able to apply current engineering practice and stay up to date with engineering best practice across broad and specialised areas.
• You will have experience in resource utilisation management relating to project delivery management.
• You will be able to take on pragmatic views to further enhance the service we deliver.
• You will have a proven record of delivering programmes of work to time, cost and quality in line with framework requirements and client specifications and manage change control (deviations), strategic risk and opportunities.
• Experience in discipline-specific network applications.
• Ability to manage and manipulate large datasets, including time series data.
• Experience with GIS software (preferably MapInfo, ArcGIS, QGIS).
  
  

Qualifications

• Preferably degree qualified in a relevant technical subject. Postgraduate qualifications are an advantage.
• Chartership or working towards chartership for Senior or Principal grades.
• Affiliation with a professional institution like IET, InstMC, or CIWEM, or in the process of working towards membership and nearing application.
• Proficient in MS 365 applications.
  
  

What’s in it for you?

We will provide you with a flexible, friendly and creative environment to develop your skills and challenge yourself. Successful candidates are trained by industry-leading professionals who are committed to the personal development of their teams. We also run a comprehensive suite of training courses throughout the year which focus on softer skills and personal development, with needs identified through our annual appraisal process.

A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.

About The Team

RPS Water Consulting is a team of Engineers, Modellers, and Data Analysts providing Asset Management and Operational Strategy development, to our Water Industry clients to support business planning and delivery. This is an evolving industry, providing challenges and opportunities that require innovation, dedication, and teamwork to help us meet our clients’ needs.

Our Water Consultancy business has a range of prestigious AMP8 programmes leading into AMP9 and beyond, where you’ll be securing your career for the next 20 years, leaving a lasting legacy!

Why RPS?

We’re a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly, empowering our people to create a work-life balance that’s right for them. We also understand the importance of collaboration and social connection in the office environment. With agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we trust our people to find the right balance to meet client needs – this is a workplace that works for you.

RPS, A Tetra Tech Company

RPS, part of Tetra Tech since January 2023, is a global firm that defines, designs, and manages projects in urbanisation, natural resources, and sustainability. As part of Tetra Tech’s 28,000-strong team across 550 offices in over 120 countries, we deliver solutions that create lasting value in an increasingly urbanised and resource-scarce world. By leveraging our global expertise, we enable our clients to develop winning solutions for their clients and communities.

As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to provide market-leading development and project opportunities for our people, supporting their growth while addressing the challenges that matter. Our people drive our success, and this is where you come to build a career.

Come and join our team and truly make a difference in the future of water!

We know we develop better solutions together. That’s why we’re committed to ensuring Fairness, Inclusivity, and Respect in all that we do. For us to live our purpose of creating shared value and to deliver on our promise to ‘make complex easy’ – for us and for our clients, we continue to build a culture where different working styles and experiences can thrive to achieve exceptional results.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with Inclusive Employers. We’re also proud to support reservists and their families, having signed the Armed Forces Covenant. An inclusive culture enables our people to do things differently, working in ways to suit them while delivering their best for RPS. That’s why we’ve created working groups as true inclusion is a journey that involves learning, collaboration, and engagement.

Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the interview process, we can then make reasonable changes to support you in performing to the best of your ability.

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