Senior Principal Engineer
Severn Trent has sustainability at the heart of everything we do, which is why we are investing over £565 million into the new Green Recovery Programme, to improve the lives of the communities we serve.
It could be the biggest challenge of your career. If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you.
We are looking for a EICA Lead in the Green Recovery Wanlip STW Team!
While in this role, you will play a key role in expanding Severn Trent’s second largest Wastewater Treatment works. The project is the largest to be undertaken in Severn Trent and is one of Severn Trent’s key projects to be delivered in AMP7 and AMP8.
Severn Trent have a need for a full time Electrical Lead for this programme of work to act on behalf of the Client under the contract on technical matters supporting the Technical Lead and the Project Management Team.
Ensure design compliance to specifications, provide expert guidance and steer the design as necessary to achieve the project outcomes. Be expected to be a Chartered Engineer with the IET and be a technical expert in Electrical design.
The Electrical Lead will have an excellent understanding of the Construction Design and Management Regs and have experience in the roles of Designer.
Sound like you? Please read on.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
Your key accountabilities in helping us will be:
Responsible for all EICA design decisions on the Green Recovery Wanlip Programme and be responsible for checking, reviewing and accepting contractors EICA design outputs.
Provide technical expertise and technical input for delivering the optimum Electrical solution for a project including learning from other projects. Support the Project Management team with Design Acceptance under the contract.
Identify and review deviations from Severn Trent’s standards and support the Project Management Team in taking these deviations to the relevant standards owners or Standards Approval Board for approval.
Ensure Severn Trent’s H&S standards are adhered to in relation to the design, in particular standards relating to functional safety, HazOp, HazCon, DSEAR and the CDM Regs.
Communicate lessons learned from the project to the wider business and develop younger and less experienced engineers working on the programme of work, driving innovation and develop new approaches and solutions
Establish network of external stakeholders to capture learnings, understand innovation and best practice and build into the plans for Capital Design technical standards
Provide input to the L&D strategy for the Design community and technical liaison with all suppliers and contractors. Evaluate Electrical choices clearly identifying Electrical risk and the benefits to whole life cost.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE
Of course, it’s important that we attract the right skill sets, and those with the right experience but we value character, positivity, and a caring attitude in equal weight.
We want people who show up and roll their sleeves up. Restless spirits who are ready to be part of something bigger, who care, who really care... because when you really care, you’ll go above and beyond. When you really care you don’t just talk about it, you do more.
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. Because that is how we do what we do.
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.
We do more, because we care.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
It’s not just a job you’ll get here, you’ll get a career too. We have a range of benefits that reward and recognise great work and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the community in which we live.
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 per annum based 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’
Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
Family friendly policies
Two volunteering days per year
WHAT’S 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.
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