Water Network Engineer

M Group Services Limited; City of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water services provider in the UK is seeking a Water Network Engineer to join their team in London. The role involves monitoring and resolving low-pressure issues and supporting network operations. Ideal candidates should have experience in network operations and a strong understanding of permit systems. This position offers opportunities for career growth and a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Private health care

Company car and fuel card

Qualifications

• Proven experience in network operations with knowledge of key activities.
• A clear understanding of the Permit to Work system.
• Experience with hydraulic modelling is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor low-pressure issues and resolve complaints.
• Write and assess risk assessments impacting the clean water hydraulic system.
• Support monitoring of pressure managed areas.

Skills

network operations

valve operations

GIS mapping software

Job description

Join to apply for the Water Network Engineer role at M Group Water.

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long‑term while protecting the environment.

What will you be doing?

We're recruiting for a Water Network Engineer to work on our Thames Water Lot 3 contract, predominately working in our Network Operations Team, covering both London & Thames Valley.

As our Water Network Engineer you will monitor, investigate and resolve low‑pressure issues, complaints, and escalations as highlighted either directly by the customer or by alarming Critical Pressure Points, understanding areas and developing solutions to individual problems or emerging risks.

• Monitoring the District Metered Area (DMA) and District Meter (DM) availability for emerging issues and supporting the technical resolution of the maintenance workstream.
• Write and assess risk assessments for the work impacting the clean water hydraulic system, for example, the repair of leaks, the operation of assets on the network, production site outages, and various other workstreams.
• Support monitoring of pressure managed areas and management of information.
• Ensure all activities follow Thames Water Asset Management Procedures and that the Risk Assessment process is properly implemented and monitored in a timely fashion.
• Assist with analysis of long term issues such as excessive headloss, low flows, area integrity, supply resilience, and water quality turnovers.
• Evaluate and analyse operational information, understanding data integrity difficulties, to resolve basic problems. Design and update line schematics of water pressure zones and the hydraulic systems, to help management and investigation issues.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience and track record of network operations and a knowledge of key activities such as valve operations, mains flushing and issuing/compliance with permits to work.
• Have a clear understanding of the Permit to Work system.
• Have previous knowledge and experience with GIS mapping software and hydraulic modelling. This is preferred, but not mandatory.

What’s in it for you?

• Matched or contributory pension scheme.
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• Employee assistance programme.
• My Rewards portal, access to 1,000’s of retail discounts.
• Life assurance.
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave.
• Reward and recognition scheme.

In addition, this role offers

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from.
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme.
• Private health care for you plus health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Personal Accident Cover.

About Us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet.
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations.
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note:

Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.