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ROLE: Authorising Engineer (Water)
LOCATION: UK Wide / National Travel Required
We're looking for an Authorising Engineer (Water) to join our Technical Services Division, supporting Healthcare, Education, Critical Environments, Corporate Accounts and Local Government portfolios. This is a unique opportunity to drive technical excellence, improve safety performance, reduce operational risk and support the development of a multi-disciplinary team through innovation, collaboration and a risk-based approach to compliance auditing.
Role Responsibilities
• Carry out technical compliance audits and Safe Systems of Work (SSoW) inspections across the portfolio, providing SMART action plans and early identification of technical risks and non-compliance.
• Conduct root cause analysis investigations into incidents, accidents and system failures, working collaboratively with subject matter experts to prevent recurrence.
• Assess, endorse and monitor Authorised Persons (APs), ensuring competence, training requirements and appointments are effectively managed.
• Provide technical advice and support to APs, managers, contractors and stakeholders, ensuring compliance with relevant standards, guidance and engineering best practice.
• Develop technical bulletins, toolbox talks, procedures and training initiatives, supporting continuous improvement and safe operational practices across the business.
Required Qualifications
• Relevant engineering qualifications with demonstrable competence and experience within water discipline authorising engineer activities, alongside a commitment to continuous professional development.
• Professional registration, such as Chartered status (or actively working towards professional registration), with detailed knowledge of applicable HTM guidance and standards.
• Proven experience undertaking audits, inspections, competence assessments and incident investigations, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
What's in it for you?
• Opportunity to influence and drive change across a national portfolio through innovation, technology and a risk-based approach to compliance.
• Access to ongoing professional development, cross-discipline learning opportunities and support from a highly experienced Technical Services leadership team.
• A challenging and rewarding role where you'll play a key part in improving safety, reducing risk and shaping engineering excellence across Mitie.
There's a place for you at Mitie, join us today!
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
Join our Mitie Team.
Together our diversity makes us stronger.
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