About the role
Join the @one Alliance as a Senior Commissioning Engineer!
Location: Norfolk/ Suffolk/ Essex
Ready to lead the way in delivering safe, sustainable water solutions across our region? Join the @one Alliance, a collaboration of eight industry-leading companies (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska, and SWECO) delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. With AMP8 ahead, we’re gearing up for our biggest challenge yet—delivering an ambitious programme of projects that will shape the future of water infrastructure.
What you'll be doing
As a Senior Commissioning Engineer, you will be responsible for:
1. Be at the forefront of complex, novel, and high-value water and water recycling projects
2. Drive technical excellence, share your expertise, and shape best practices across the commissioning team
3. Mentor and support apprentices and assistant engineers to develop the next generation of talent
4. Collaborate with designers, engineers, and operations teams to influence solutions from the start
5. Lead and manage on-site commissioning activities on major infrastructure projects
6. Deliver detailed commissioning plans, risk assessments, and impact assessments
7. Ensure a zero-customer-impact approach to commissioning
8. Engage in factory testing, site acceptance testing, and performance optimisation
9. Apply your knowledge of PLCs, MCCs, process control systems, and water/wastewater treatment
10. Work with a wide range of internal teams and industry-leading external partners
11. Log and share lessons learned to continuously improve delivery and performance
12. Make a real difference to projects ranging from £1M to £75M in value
13. Use your experience to deliver on time, to budget, and safely
Who we're looking for
Qualifications we’re looking for:
* HNC (BTEC Level 4) in Electrical, Mechanical, or Process Engineering
* Proven commissioning experience in wastewater
* Site expertise with control systems, process optimisation, and operations
* Experience supervising engineers or contractors
* Degree and professional membership – a bonus!
Essential skills:
* Strong communicator and collaborator
* Able to juggle priorities across multiple complex projects
* Full UK driving license
* IT literate and solutions-focused
Make a sustainable difference in how water is delivered, today and for the future
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
* Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
* 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
* Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
* Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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