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Join Us as a Senior Mechanical Engineer – Shape the Future of Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Are you ready to make a meaningful, long‑term impact on communities and the environment? As a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Thames Water, you’ll play a vital role in transforming and modernising our sewage treatment works. Your technical expertise will help deliver innovative, resilient, and cost‑effective engineering solutions that protect public health, safeguard ecosystems, and enable sustainable growth across our region. In this influential position, you’ll work closely with contractors and multidisciplinary teams to ensure our designs meet the highest standards of technical quality and compliance. You’ll be empowered to lead the assurance of complex engineering projects—bringing excellence to every stage while contributing to a cleaner, greener future for millions of customers. What you’ll be doing as a Senior Mechanical Engineer Collaborating with a wide range of internal stakeholders—including engineers, asset managers, and operations teams—to develop fit‑for‑purpose, resilient engineering solutions that balance innovation, value for money, and long‑term performance. Providing robust assurance and technical oversight of consultants and contractors delivering large and complex capital projects. Ensuring compliance with legislation, regulations, and Thames Water standards so that all solutions are delivered safely and meet the technical and environmental requirements set out in the Project Brief. Playing a key role in supporting Thames Water’s ‘Triple Zero’ Health, Safety and Wellbeing vision. By conducting audits and reviewing Risk Assessments, Method Statements and Safe Systems of Work, you will help drive our commitment to zero incidents, zero harm, and zero compromise. Identifying, managing, and escalating delivery risks and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle. Supporting the production of Project Briefs and providing timely and accurate responses to RFIs.Location - This role is hybrid, based at Clearwater Court, with travel to Oxford Sewage Treatment Works. You’ll typically spend 2 to 3 days per week on site to support design reviews, assurance activities, and project delivery. 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday. What you should bring to the role To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are: A degree in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent). Experience working in a design and construction‑related engineering role. Awareness of applying Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015).Nice-to-haves that would make you stand out: Strong technical knowledge of pumping systems and mechanical package plant. Experience collaborating across multiple engineering disciplines to deliver fully integrated, operational solutions. What’s in it for you? Competitive salary from £55,000 to £65,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience. 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays). Generous Pension Scheme through AON. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.Find out more about our benefits and perks Who are we? We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come. Learn more about our purpose and values Working at Thames Water Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits. If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet. Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more. We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support. When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues. Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment

We are looking for a Technical Coordinator to join our Wastewater Operations Team working across the Thames Valley North area, based at Oxford Sewage Treatment Works, working as part of a close and supportive Field Operations team. What you’ll be doing as a Technical Coordinator (Mechanical/Electrical) You’ll play a key role in coordinating complex maintenance activities, working closely with both our in-house teams and external contractors. You'll also help ensure we meet all our legal statutory maintenance obligations. These will include items such as lifting equipment, pressure vessels and generators. Ensuring our sites meet the KPI for plant availability across the estate, driving improvement and striving for best practice. You will be the technical mentor for the maintenance team, including apprentices. All this needs to be done whilst ensuring we deliver a high standard of service within budget. This role is very diverse and consists of a wide range of tasks, some of which are listed below: You will be responsible for the management of the pre-requisites within SAP (materials, permits, resources and services) for all complex jobs for planned and reactive work across maintenance and operations. Use technical expertise and data captured from the field to design operationally critical jobs. Highlight key operational risks across the area and present these to obtain funding. Maintain the availability of plant and equipment and optimise treatment process performance. Develop strong collaborative relationships with other internal and external stakeholders. Provide expert advice on technical issues and generate solutions to operational risks. Obtain quotes, order materials and 3rd party services through our framework contractors. Ensure all aspects of Health and Safety are managed correctly, through a safe system of work approval, reviewing RAMS, permitting and site audits.Base Location: Oxford STW - OX4 4YU, but you will be required to travel to the various sites around the Thames Valley North area. Working Pattern: 36 hours, Monday-Friday, 7:30 - 15:36. Requirements for the role: Valid UK driving license. What you should bring to the role The essential criteria to help you succeed in this role is: Relevant experience working within Water or Wastewater treatment or comparable industry, preferably experience as a Mechanical and Electrical technician or ICA technician. Time served an apprentice and a relevant technical qualification. Highly logical - able to decide on and build the dependencies between tasks. Collaborative – able to work closely with Planners, Field Performance Managers, suppliers, and 3rd parties. Technically experienced with a good understanding of how to maintain assets. Good local knowledge of how important an asset is to a site and how it relates to other assets. Meticulous in documenting the finer details of what needs to take place. Able to manage a large workload of numerous jobs in parallel. Competent with IT systems (will use SAP extensively) as well as effective communication skills. Knowledge and awareness of health and safety issues relevant to the industry. A clean driving licence is essential as the role involves travelling.What’s in it for you? Competitive between £36,400 to £42,000 per annum, depending on your level of experience. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution Annual Leave: 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 28 with the length of service (plus bank holidays) Generous Pension Scheme through AON. Generous Paternity Leave, including 4 weeks paid and an optional 2 weeks unpaid. Enhanced Maternity Leave, 26 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay! Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.Find out more about our benefits and perks Who are we? We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come. Learn more about our purpose and values Working at Thames Water Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits. If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet. Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more. We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support. When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues. Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment