Location
Ashford Common, with regular travel across the Thames Water region for site inspections and operational visits.

Hours
Full Time - Hybrid working with a mix of home, office and site-based working.

Salary
£50,000 - £65,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.

About the Role
Are you an experienced reservoir safety professional seeking the opportunity to work across a diverse portfolio of reservoirs, influence risk-based investment decisions and help deliver the highest standards of reservoir safety and resilience? Join Thames Water’s growing Reservoir Safety Team as a Senior Reservoir Engineer and take on a high-impact role focused on the safety, integrity and statutory compliance of reservoirs and associated assets across the business. This is a rare opportunity for an experienced reservoir safety professional to play a leading role in managing one of the UK's largest and most diverse portfolios of statutory reservoirs and water storage assets, helping to safeguard critical infrastructure, influence long-term investment decisions and shape the future of reservoir safety.

Reporting to the Reservoir Safety Manager, you'll support Thames Water in meeting its obligations under the Reservoirs Act 1975, carrying out inspections, technical assessments and engineering assurance across a diverse reservoir portfolio. You'll provide expert technical leadership, advise stakeholders across the business and support the safe operation of essential infrastructure that serves millions of customers.

Key responsibilities include:
- Leading inspections and condition assessments of raw water reservoirs, service reservoirs, and associated infrastructure.
- Supporting statutory undertaker duties, including Section 10 and Section 12 inspections and delivery of statutory recommendations.
- Identifying, assessing and managing reservoir safety risks and deterioration mechanisms affecting compliance, resilience or public safety.
- Producing clear technical reports, recommendations and engineering guidance to support operational priorities and long-term investment decisions.
- Providing technical reservoir safety advice to the Reservoir Safety Manager and stakeholders across Operations, Engineering and Asset Management.
- Reviewing designs, drawings, technical reports and submissions, providing engineering assurance and constructive technical challenge.
- Collaborating closely with Operations, Engineering teams, regulators, consultants and contractors to ensure reservoir safety and compliance.
- Driving continuous improvement in reservoir safety practice, asset management and governance across Thames Water.

This role requires a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle due to regular travel for site inspections and asset assessments.

Join a collaborative engineering team with the opportunity to influence the future of a unique and varied reservoir portfolio. This role offers meaningful technical challenge, direct contribution to public safety and environmental resilience, and the chance to support investment decisions that protect essential water infrastructure for generations to come.

Additional benefits include 26 days annual leave (increasing to 30 days with length of service), bank holidays, a generous pension scheme, annual personal medical assessments, and a range of health and wellbeing benefits including physiotherapy, counselling, Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance. A performance-related pay plan linked to company targets is also available.

Experience
- Proven experience in reservoir engineering, inspections, civil asset management or dam safety.
- Experience inspecting civil engineering structures and producing high-quality technical reports, recommendations and assurance outputs.
- Strong understanding of reservoir safety legislation, compliance requirements, risk management and industry best practice.
- Experience in leading inspections and managing reservoir safety risks.

About you
- Technically strong and safety-focused reservoir engineering professional.
- Able to combine sound judgement with clear communication and confident stakeholder engagement.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess technical risk and recommend practical engineering solutions.
- Excellent communication skills, able to provide clear technical advice to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Confident working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders including Operations, Engineering teams, regulators, consultants and contractors.

Qualifications
- Degree in Civil Engineering or an equivalent reservoir or dam-related discipline.
- Supervising Panel Engineer status under the Reservoirs Act 1975, or strong progress towards panel application.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential due to travel requirements.