Job Purpose

The Canal & River Trust is one of the UK’s biggest charities and we are entrusted with the care of over 2,000 miles of waterways in England and Wales. As well as maintaining canals and rivers, we are also responsible for an extensive network of waterside infrastructure along with museums, archives and the country’s third largest collection of protected historic buildings – preserving them for future generations. 

We are currently seeking an experienced Works Engineer to join our Operations, Technical Support team. 

The teams function is to help promoters achieve their objectives, transform the waterways and enrich lives, while at the same time protecting our customers, infrastructure, buildings, heritage and waterway environment from harm or damage that could result from the promoter’s work. The team recovers fees and charges which go to support the work of the Trust, and handles approximately 300 different schemes per year offering a completely varied work load.

The team links with other teams within the Trust on behalf of the developer to find the necessary solutions to undertake works that will, where possible, enhance the waterway and environment.

The successful applicant will gain engineering knowledge and negotiation skills whilst working on a variety of schemes. This makes the workload completely variable which adds to the attraction of working in the team.

Location & coverage

The role will be based working from home, with the allocation of a nearby Hub for collaborative working in Birmingham. 

This is a regional role and there will be an expectation that the successful candidate will be able travel to attend meetings or fieldwork throughout regional, West Midlands, network. 

See our network here (https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network). 

Willingness to travel will be essential to accommodate the frequent visits and meeting requirements at our regional HUBs, canals in the West Midlands region and with Promoters at their sites or offices. 

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. 

To Apply:  click on the "Apply for this job" button and follow the process - complete the application form & upload current CV.

If you have any questions about the role please contact CRT.recruitment@canalrivertrust.org.uk 

We are currently conducting our interview processes virtually as we continue to respect and follow necessary social distancing guidance to protect our team and our candidates. You may be invited to a face to face further stage interview which will always be conducted following strict social distancing guidelines.