Principal Engineer - Clean Water

We are currently recruiting for a Project Engineer to Join our Water Consultancy business. As a Project Engineer you will provide technical leadership and guidance to a project team focused on delivering pressure management 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 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 which require innovation, dedication and teamwork to help us meet our clients’ needs.

Your Responsibilities:

You will be expected to demonstrate significant experience in a modelling or engineering background at either a consultancy, water company or regulator. This will include managing a team of modellers/engineers to deliver multiple projects to client satisfaction and to meet project objectives. This will include the ability to, for example, scope surveys, build a model, verify a model, develop notional solutions, use the model for analysis and write reports about the model. You will have experience in resource utilisation management relating to project delivery management. 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.

You will also be responsible for:

lead a large project team to deliver work to clients. Guidance and support to less experienced colleagues working within your project team and beyond 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 responsibility for delivering toolbox talks to the teams. Be responsible for the delivery of multiple pressure management 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 for delivery of a large project and programmes of work including:

Feasibility studies / options development. Asset Performance Assessments / Reviews. Report preparation / drawings. Scoping surveys and scheduling of work for survey teams and liaison during the projects Action any changes that impact your projects which have been agreed between the framework manager and the client.

About You:

Preferably Degree (Level 6) qualified in a relevant discipline, with postgraduate qualifications (Level 7 +) an advantage.
Chartered Membership of an Institution . MCIWEM or demonstrable relevant experience. Proficient in MS 365 applications. Demonstrable experience in discipline-specific network modelling applications such as InfoWorks ICM, InfoWorks WS Pro or SynerGEE, with InfoAsset experience also beneficial. Experience with GIS software (preferably MapInfo, ArcGIS, QGIS).

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.

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:

Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023, RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With 27,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.

About RPS Water Consultancy

It’s an exciting time to be working for our UK Water business as the workload in the water market takes off. With a broad portfolio of long-term framework agreements in place, we are ideally placed to help our clients deliver on the challenges facing them over the coming years - whether that is reducing leakage, pollution and flooding, or improving the environment and levels of service to their customers. 

Our Water business employs around 1000 highly skilled and motivated people working on projects for all of the water and sewerage companies across the UK, and most of the water-only companies. We deliver a full range of end-to-end water and wastewater services including data collection and analytics; modelling and risk analysis/optimisation; data visualisation and mapping; artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions; feasibility studies; outline and detailed design of capital solutions; and development of optimised, risk-based, operational interventions.

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

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Our commitment to Diversityand Inclusion
Mindful that a truly inclusiveorganization must make appropriate use of talent on a global basis and withoutunnecessary barriers, we are committed to embedding diversity and inclusionprinciples in all People processes in order to be as diverse as the communitiesand clients we work with, thereby securing, developing, and retaining the bestavailable talent for the company’s future.

Our approach to Diversityand inclusion
Our people live our purpose,deliver our promise, and demonstrate our behaviours every day. Our behavioursdefine who we are. Developed by our people, they underpin everything that wedo. They create the memorable experiences we are known for and make RPS a greatplace to do great work.
‘Stronger Together’ is one ofour five core behaviours and it is inherent in creating an inclusive workplace:
‘We are respectful,acknowledge diversity, and recognise the potential and contribution ofeveryone. We bring out the best in one another, always assuming best intent.People who learn and grow thrive in our business, sharing in our success.’

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