Engineer/ Senior Engineer- Waste Water

Cheslyn Hay
8 months ago
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Recently named as one of the 'Best Big Companies to Work For’ by Best Companies, J. Murphy & Sons Limited (Murphy) is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure.
 
Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; power and water. Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities.
 
Murphy employs around 3,600 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’ - directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. 

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The Engineer/ Senior Engineer is responsible for overseeing the processing, planning, quality, operation, and maintenance requirements of  Waste Water supply and distribution systems to ensure the delivery of clean, safe, and sustainable water services. This role involves managing processes, procedures of the NAV business, site inspections, align resources, ensuring regulatory compliance, and optimising efficiency of the mua Water networks.

A day in the life of a mua Waste Water Engineer

Proactive management to oversee the daily operations of our wastewater and clean water networks including connections, sampling and testing, inspections, monitoring and maintenance all in accordance with the company procedures and making recommendations to avoid any recurrence.
Management of all maintenance, faults and emergency logging throughout the end-to-end process to drive improved outputs with all services providers.
Support and manage the CRMC clean water process, routine maintenance and inspection programme; raise purchasing orders, and work on cause and affect approach with escalation of open and close out report with all SLPs and developers, as required.
Providing support to the entire team and give assurance that all operational admin of SLP’s and site developers, contractors and service providers queries has been resolved.
Ensuring that services providers clean and wastewater connections and commissioning documents are saved properly, suitable, sufficient, and good quality.
Ensure compliance with UK water quality standards and regulations, including Ofwat, the Environment Agency, and the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI). Maintain accurate records and reporting.
Monitor water quality, implement treatment solutions, and ensure all safety protocols are met in accordance with UK legislation.
Oversee the maintenance, repair, and replacement of infrastructure, including pumping stations, pipelines, attenuation, and sewers.
Implement contingency plans for water emergency planning & response, supply disruptions, droughts, or contamination incidents in line with UK emergency planning frameworks.
 Provide assurance that asset management, document controlling, folder structure, maintaining records of the network assets that have been installed, tested, and commissioned are fit for business purpose and comply with Industry/Regulatory and Legislative Standards and requirements.
Maintaining the technical and safety audit/inspections records, ICPs whereabouts, authorisation records, pre and post construction for all asset’s records.    

Still interested, does this sound like you ?

Experience as an Engineer in Waste Water                        
Understanding of Non-Conformance reporting with Root Cause Analysis Knowledge, Inspection & Test Plans & Quality Plans
Auditor Solid understanding to ISO 9001:2015 with an understanding of the standard and experienced in auditing.    
Standard knowledge and experience of working in water distribution networks.
General knowledge of Standard of WIRS SLP Water construction process.
Managing site inspection and auditing records.
Operation and maintenance records

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