What do you get if you cross an award winning, innovative, water company and £566m? Green Recovery of course!

Make a difference in your career. Our ambitious and innovative Green Recovery projects will help combat the challenges of climate change, flooding and water quality.

Be a part of something bringing benefits to our communities, health outcomes and enviroment. It could be the biggest challenge of your career.

Be a part of something bringing benefits to our communities, health outcomes and environment. 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. There really is something for everyone here.

We have a brilliant opportunity to join our Capital and Commercial Services as a Green Recovery Decarbonising Water Resources Civil Lead!

Severn Trent have a need for a full time Civil 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.

Sound like you? Please read on.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

While in this role, you will play a key role in constructing a new water treatment works to enable Severn Trent to utilise a new abstraction license that they have procured for the River Trent. This license will provide enough water to supply a city the size of Derby and is one of Severn Trent’s key projects to be delivered in AMP7. Severn Trent want to reduce the carbon footprint of water treatment as far as practicable.

You will ensure design compliance to specifications, provide expert guidance and steer the design as necessary to achieve the project outcomes.

Your key accountabilities in helping us will be:

• Responsible for all Civil design decisions on the Green Recovery Decarbonising Water Resources Programme and be responsible for checking and reviewing Civil design outputs.
• Provide technical expertise and technical input for delivering the optimum Civil 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 Civil choices clearly identifying Civil risk and the benefits to whole life cost.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE

As a Civil Lead, will have an excellent understanding of the Construction Design and Management Regs and have experience in the roles of Designer. Ideally you will be a Chartered Engineer with ICE and be a technical expert in Civil design.

The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity and a caring attitude we want to talk to you, too.

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 want people who show up and get involve. Those who are ready to be part of something bigger and who want to make a difference because they care. Is that you?

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 additional days per year)
• Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250 depending 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
• 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. If you’re not too sure about what you need to do, or have a question about the role before applying, please do reach out to our amazing team of recruiters at recruitment@severntrent.co.uk.

And if your curiosity has peaked and you're wanting to find out even more, search #LifeAtSevernTrent on social media.

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