Job title Technical Assurance Engineer Ref 41010 Division Asset Operations & Capital Delivery Location Hybrid – Mogden (STW) – TW7 7LW, Hybrid – Reading (STW) – RG2 0RP, Thames Valley Contract type Permanent Full/Part-time Full-time Hours 36 Hours per week Salary Offering a salary up to £55,000 per annum depending on skills and experience. Job grade B Closing date 03/06/2026
The Technical Assurance Engineer plays a central role in safeguarding the quality, safety, and reliability of the organisation’s technical deliverables.
This is a new and exciting position in the team, responsible for identifying, assessing, and triaging technical risks across projects, ensuring that each issue is routed to the appropriate department for resolution. You will play a key role in shaping and improving the processes and procedures that underpin how we work.
The role strengthens organisational governance by providing clear oversight, maintaining traceability of risk mitigation activities, and championing a culture of technical excellence and compliance with Regulations.
What you’ll be doing as a Technical Assurance Engineer:
- Assess, prioritise, and manage technical risks, issues, and non‑conformances across projects and operations.
- Validate risk information and assign clear ownership for resolution.
- Act as the central point of contact between operations, technical teams, and subject matter experts.
- Facilitate effective communication to ensure responsibilities, expectations, and timelines are understood.
- Monitor and track risk mitigation actions, ensuring completion to required standards.
- Verify technical solutions meet organisational policies, engineering standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Escalate high‑impact or unresolved risks through appropriate governance channels.
- Maintain accurate records, ensuring traceability, audit compliance, and clear accountability.
- Produce concise reports and dashboards (SharePoint / Power BI) highlighting trends, bottlenecks, and emerging risks.
- Ensure processes and procedures are followed, continuously improved, and changes are effectively managed to minimise cost, programme, safety, compliance, and environmental impacts.
Base location
Hybrid Working – Can be based out of any of our Thames Water sites from Reading – RG20RP to Mogden – TW77LW. Please note you will be required to travel across the Thames Valley Area.
Working pattern or hours
36 Hours per week (Monday to Friday)
What should you bring to the role?
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant field.
- Significant experience working in a design or related role.
- A good understanding of the Construction/ Operational business.
- Knowledge of CDM Regulations.
- Excellent technical acumen in the relevant field.
- Excellent communication skills and customer service ethic.
- Commercially aware with a good practical understanding of engineering contracts.
- A great team player with the ability to work collaboratively in a challenging project environment.
- You will be self‑starting, resilient and tenacious under pressure, with a desire to successfully deliver projects to time, cost and to quality.
Additional skills and experiences
- Membership of a relevant professional institution, or equivalent.
What’s in it for you?
- Offering a salary up to £55,000 per annum depending on skills and experience.
- Annual Leave: 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
- Performance‑related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
- Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
- Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.
We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support.
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