Knowledge, Skills/Qualifications & Experience

Key Accountabilities: 

• Assessing/managing/ensuring third parties undertaking engineering/construction works on or adjacent to CRT’s estate with potential to affect CRT’s interests are planned and undertaken safely.
• Provide technical support to CRT internal specialists teams by working efficiently to defined standards and procedures to ensure conservation and protection of the condition of the waterway assets. 
• To ensure compliance with statutory requirements and internal Codes of Practice.
• To protect CRT’s interests including; customer service standards, environment and heritage.
• Liaise with CRT internal teams including estates, operations and environmental, to ensure the internal consultation processes are met.
• Promote early involvement, safety and recover costs from third party projects.
• Comply with Canal & River Trust Health & Safety policy and defined standards. Report incidents, accidents and near misses.
• Using SAP and GIS systems, ensure all relevant information and analysis is input in a timely and accurate manner.
• Provide engineering advice and support to third parties and internal teams, to assist in the resolution of engineering-related situations.
• Contribute technical advice covering feasibility, detailed design and build-ability of third party projects taking account of Canal & River Trust standards and external standards including heritage and environmental issues.
• Provide a point of contact for technical queries internally and externally. Respond as appropriate by providing advice and reference to relevant information sources.

Skills & Experience: 

Essential:

• Demonstrate comprehensive relevant experience.
• Proven experience of inspecting / delivering engineering activities.
• Proven experience in assessing infrastructure risk.
• Demonstrable experience in cross-functional working delivering performance across range of functions.
• Experience in the delivery of excellent customer service standards.
• Able to provide a good standard of written communication and proven ability to present technical data to non-technical audiences.

Desirable:

• Able to support other areas of the business in an appropriate manner, taking account of overall business priorities and negotiating resources as appropriate.
• Experience of engineering in the water environment. 
• Knowledge and understanding of historic infrastructure. 
• Professional qualification in a relevant technical discipline, such as Degree or HND in Civil Engineering. 
• Membership of relevant professional body e.g. ICE