MEICA Engineer

We are looking for a qualified, time-served engineer with strong multidisciplinary MEICA experience and a high level of health and safety awareness, and the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, contractors and external stakeholders, sharing expertise to support safe, resilient and sustainable asset management across NRW's operational estate.

This role is a specialist technical position within the Operations North East Wales Directorate, supporting the management and maintenance of critical mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control, and automation assets. You will ensure assets operate safely, reliably, and in line with industry standards, delivering both reactive and planned maintenance through asset management systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Issuing and managing work programmes to contractors, monitoring performance, and ensuring timely completion of works.
• Reporting on progress, identifying risks, and providing strong fault-finding support to resolve equipment issues and minimise disruption.
• Managing low to moderate risk contracts, ensuring compliance with health and safety, statutory requirements, and value for money.
• Contributing to improvement and capital projects up to £50k, including design input, technical reviews, and project delivery, with a focus on flood risk assets.
• Liaising with electricity network operators, supporting emergency response through a standby rota, and collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders across Wales.

This role suits a qualified, proactive engineer with strong MEICA expertise and a collaborative approach. Driving is essential to this role as it requires operational site visits at remote locations not serviced by public transport and will sometimes be required to attend out of hours as part of our incident response needs. You must hold a full and current UK driving license.

As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to an NRW office within the place base/location above and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face-to-face meetings or training will be planned in advance.

What You Will Do:

• Manage the reactive and planned maintenance programme of MEICA works through the MEICA computerised maintenance management system and AMX.
• Issue the MEICA work programmes to the MEICA Term Contractor, monitor the progress of the work and provide routine reports on any work outstanding.
• Identify and resolve equipment faults and respond to emergency incidents.
• Procure goods and services to enable effective delivery of the works programmes.
• Contribute to development of designs and specifications for MEICA works including asset refurbishment projects.
• Participate in the MEICA Standby Rota.
• Be the main point of contact for the Regional electricity network and project manage connections and alterations for Capital projects and departments across NRW.
• Project manage improvements and refurbishment of flood risk critical assets whilst ensuring there is no disruption to flood risk critical departments.
• Provide MEICA specifications to projects and project manage the MEICA Specific works.
• Bid, tender, and project manage capital projects up to £50k.
• Carry out preliminary design review (PDR) and critical design review (CDR) on projects.
• Undertake health and safety 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).
• Required to take part in incident response activities.
• Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

Your qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills:

• Required to be a time served engineer qualified to HND level or equivalent, in a relevant MEICA engineering discipline working towards incorporated engineer status and qualified in a recognised health and safety certificate (IOSH).
• You will be able to demonstrate a wide range of engineering experience in a multidiscipline MEICA engineering environment and have a working knowledge of industrial control systems, motor starters, PLC's, HMI's pumps, automated sluice gates and associated PLC's, SCADA, CCTV systems etc.
• It is desirable for candidates to have experience of managing high risk work such as contractor management, confined space work, working next to water etc.
• You should have good IT skills and be familiar with: MS Office Suite, computerised maintenance management systems and AutoCAD (Computer Aided Design) systems.
• Be familiar with the requirements of managing health and safety for MEICA works.
• A full UK driving licence.

Welsh Language level requirements:

• Essential: Level A1 - Entry level

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.

Additional Information:

• 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.
• Natural Resources Wales is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Although we hold a Skilled Worker visa sponsorship licence, it applies only to specific roles that meet both the eligibility criteria and salary requirements set out by the UK Government under the Skilled Worker visa route.

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

We are 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 a 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.