Location
Hybrid – Clearwater Court, Ashford Common (WTW) – 2-3 days a week in office or onsite

Hours
36 hours a week, Monday to Friday

Salary
Up to £65,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience

About the Role
Are you a Supervising Panel Engineer, or progressing towards panel status, ready for your next challenge in reservoir safety? Join Thames Water as a Senior Reservoir Engineer and bring your expertise to a diverse reservoir portfolio where your technical judgement will directly influence safety, investment, and long-term resilience. This role offers the opportunity to broaden your experience, take on greater technical influence, and help shape how we manage and protect some of our most critical water infrastructure.

As a Senior Reservoir Engineer, you will lead inspections and condition assessments of raw water reservoirs, service reservoirs, and associated infrastructure. You will support statutory undertaker duties, including Section 10 and Section 12 inspections and the delivery of statutory recommendations. You will identify, assess, and manage reservoir safety risks and deterioration mechanisms that could affect compliance, resilience, or public safety.

Using your technical expertise, you will help shape priorities and influence longer-term investment decisions across our reservoir portfolio. You will produce clear technical reports, recommendations, and engineering guidance that support operational and investment decisions. Providing trusted reservoir safety advice to the Reservoir Safety Manager and stakeholders across Operations, Engineering, and Asset Management will be a key part of your role.

You will review designs, drawings, technical reports, and submissions, providing robust engineering assurance and constructive technical challenge. Collaboration with Operations and Engineering teams, regulators, consultants, and contractors will ensure reservoir safety and compliance requirements are met.

Bring your experience and ideas to help drive continuous improvement in reservoir safety, asset management, and governance across Thames Water.

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

About you
- Strong technical judgement with the confidence to influence decisions and challenge constructively
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, able to provide clear technical advice and influence decisions at different organisational levels
- Analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess technical risk and recommend practical engineering solutions

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