Senior Engineer

We at Natural Resources Wales (NRW) are looking for a skilled professional to join our team as a Senior Engineer in maintaining and enhancing Wales’ flood risk management infrastructure.

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in protecting communities and ecosystems by ensuring our flood assets — from earth embankments to demountable barriers — are safe, effective, and well-maintained.

You’ll be at the forefront of technical planning and health & safety management, planning the delivery of essential maintenance and construction works across Southwest Wales. This role blends office-based coordination with field-based oversight, offering variety and real-world impact.

To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Rhys Heath at [email protected]

Interviews will be face to face (details of time and location will be shared in advance)

Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.

What you will do

• Lead on the production and management of the annual flood risk asset maintenance programme.
• React to asset defects and plan associated assessments and repairs
• Lead on the production and on-going review of flood incident response operational plans, arranging related test exercises for these.
• Undertake the role of Project Manager or Project Executive for small to medium scale civil engineering projects providing expert opinion and advice on engineering and technical issues.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to team members
• Undertake financial reporting, to enable accurate estimating of programmed cost targets and budgets.
• Contribute to the development of contractor frameworks and carry out tenders and evaluations.
• Work in collaboration with contractors to ensure delivery of programmed works.
• Undertake the formal roles of Client and/or Designer/Principal Designer to comply with the Construction Design & Management (CDM) Regulations 2015.
• Liaise and coordinate with other teams and stakeholders to progress work and establish partnerships
• Represent flood maintenance teams in the development of new ICT systems to improve the efficiency of our work. Act as a point of contact and lead user for these systems.
• Support Health and Safety best practice undertaking duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post.
• Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy, together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post
• Be committed to your own development through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
• Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.
• Required to take part in incident response activities

Your qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills

In your application and interview you will be asked to demonstrate the following skills and experience using the STAR method.

1. A Degree in Civil Engineering or related subject is desirable for this role. A HNC in Civil Engineering or similar is the minimum requirement, together with significant related experience. The candidate should also be progressing towards Incorporated or Chartered Engineer status or an appropriate professional designation.
2. A broad knowledge of civil engineering design and construction practices together with a fundamental knowledge of river channel hydraulics. An ability to develop and apply innovative solutions to problems.
3. Significant experience of Health and Safety relevant to this role (NEBOSH Construction Certificate is desirable)
4. Project Management (Prince2 practitioner qualification would be desirable).
5. Competent surveying and AutoCAD skills.
6. Effective communication skills, cross-team working and stakeholder liaison to establish partnerships and achieve objectives
7. The ability to undertake the ‘Client’ and ‘Designer/Principal Designer’ Roles, to comply with CDM 2015.
8. Good ICT/GIS and organisation skills.
9. Full UK driving licence.

Welsh Language level requirements

• Essential: Level A1 – Entry level

Welsh language levels

Please note if you do not meet the A1 requirement i.e., ability to understand basic phrases and ability to pronounce Welsh names correctly, then NRW offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Benefits

This role will offer a range of benefits, including:

• Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 28.97% (successful internal staff will remain in their current pension scheme)
• 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days
• generous leave entitlements for all your life needs
• commitment to professional development
• health and wellbeing benefits and support
• weekly wellbeing hour to use as you choose

See full details for all the employee benefits you will receive.

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We’re passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We are committed to equal opportunities, and we guarantee interviews for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

We want to attract and retain talented and highly skilled staff, so we make sure that our pay scales remain competitive. We advertise the full pay scale on our job descriptions. Appointed candidates start at the first point of the pay scale and annual increments are paid each year.

We want our staff to grow professionally and personally. From leadership development to access to further and higher education courses, our staff have opportunities to expand their knowledge on variety of topics, stay current in their field and continue to learn as their career progresses.

We are a Bilingual organisation which complies with the Welsh Language Standards. Welsh language skills are considered an asset to NRW, and we encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills.