What you’ll be doing
as a Senior Instrumentation, Control and Automation Engineer
1. Leading ICA technical assurance activities across major capital projects to ensure delivery is safe, efficient, and fully aligned to time, cost, and quality expectations.
2. Championing a strong health, safety, and wellbeing culture, actively supporting Thames Water’s ‘Triple Zero’ vision of zero incidents, zero harm and zero compromise.
3. Collaborating closely with contractors, consultants, and multi‑disciplinary teams to ensure designs meet the required technical, environmental, and regulatory standards.
4. Ensuring solutions fully meet the Project Brief, respond to stakeholder needs, and deliver the best Whole Life Cost and operational value.
Location - This role is hybrid, based at Clearwater Court, with travel to project sites as required.
You’ll typically spend 2 to 3 days per week on site to support design reviews, assurance activities, and project delivery.
36 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
What you should bring to the role
5. A degree in Electrical, Instrumentation, Control & Automation engineering—or equivalent experience gained in a relevant engineering role within the water or wastewater sector. We also welcome applicants from other industries with strong transferable technical skills.
6. Proven leadership in fostering a positive Health, Safety and Wellbeing culture.
7. Significant experience in a design or design‑related engineering role.
8. Strong technical knowledge of asset standards, deep expertise within your ICA discipline, and experience collaborating across multiple engineering disciplines.
9. Experience contributing to Stage Gate processes and ensuring robust technical governance.
10. Strong commercial awareness and a practical understanding of engineering contracts.
11. A personal commitment to demonstrating behaviours aligned to Thames Water’s Values.
12. Resilience, determination under pressure, and the drive to deliver projects safely, on time, on budget, and to the highest technical standard.
What’s in it for you?
13. Competitive salary from £55,000 to £65,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
14. 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays).
15. Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
16. Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
17. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
18. Wider benefits scheme, including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your well-being.