Senior Civil Engineer, asset inspections

at  Canal River Trust

Job Purpose:
Job Title: Senior Engineer
Advertised Salary: £43,000 - £49,500 + car cash allowance (£5,100 p.a.) + benefits
Location: Remote, with regular travel across our southern section North West network (Cheshire) required.
We’re the charity who look after and bring to life 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales, because we believe that life is better by water. Every role across the Trust plays its part in transforming our canals and rivers into spaces where local people want to spend time and feel better, bringing wellbeing benefits to millions.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Engineer to join our Asset Management team in the south of our North West region (Cheshire).
The role of the Engineer in the asset management team is to maintain, the Trust’s infrastructure through their entire life cycle to enable visitors to safely enjoy our canals and rivers and safeguard them for future generations. Our asset engineers do this by inspecting and assessing the condition of our built assets, prioritising repair and renewal works specifying works that are required, and support of the operations team on minor repairs and reactive repairs.
Working as part of a team of Engineers and Inspectors, our Senior Engineers provide an important role inspecting and assessing the condition of the Trust’s infrastructure, prioritising future works and acting as client throughout the project lifecycle and providing technical support to other Trust departments.
We are an ICE approved employer, providing structured learning and professional development support.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Asset management responsibility for a geographical area of canals, river navigations and reservoirs.
• Responsible for undertaking scheduled asset inspections, ensuring that they are completed on time and to a high quality.
• Investigate and prioritise defects on a risk based approach
• Define and support the maintenance, repair and renewal works for delivery by the Trust ‘s teams and contractors, taking account of all statutory, technical, operational and customer requirements.
• Contribute technical advice during the feasibility, design, construction and commissioning phases for projects to our internal delivery teams (Customer Operations & Direct Services), framework contractors and volunteers.
• Management of a small team of asset inspectors who monitor changes to the infrastructure
• Support internal and external enquiries associated with the assets. Respond as appropriate by reference to relevant information sources..
• Where required, provide suitable temporary works designs to support local minor maintenance teams.
• Build relationships with local representatives of partnerships, regulators, and stakeholders to protect, maintain, and continually improve levels of service and improve data held by the Trust.

ABOUT YOU

This role is based with our Asset Management team, and we are looking for someone with engineering experience, has good knowledge and confidence in identifying engineering problems and identifying solutions to those problems. Our successful applicant may previously have worked in roles including asset inspection for similar organisations/consultants and have knowledge of Engineering Design Principals and Works Planning / Prioritisation.

Please refer the Job description for details