Technical Assurance Engineer - Reading, Berkshire in Whitley

The Technical Assurance Engineer plays a central role in safeguarding the quality, safety, and reliability of the organisations technical deliverables. This is a new and exciting position in the team, responsible for identifying, assessing, and triaging technical risks across projects, ensuring that each issue is routed to the appropriate department for resolution. You will play a key role in shaping and improving the processes and procedures that underpin how we work.

The role strengthens organisational governance by providing clear oversight, maintaining traceability of risk mitigation activities, and championing a culture of technical excellence and compliance with Regulations.

What you'll be doing as a Technical Assurance Engineer:

• Assess, prioritise, and manage technical risks, issues, and nonconformances across projects and operations.
• Validate risk information and assign clear ownership for resolution.
• Act as the central point of contact between operations, technical teams, and subject matter experts.
• Facilitate effective communication to ensure responsibilities, expectations, and timelines are understood.
• Monitor and track risk mitigation actions, ensuring completion to required standards.
• Verify technical solutions meet organisational policies, engineering standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Escalate high-impact or unresolved risks through appropriate governance channels.
• Maintain accurate records, ensuring traceability, audit compliance, and clear accountability.
• Produce concise reports and dashboards (SharePoint / Power BI) highlighting trends, bottlenecks, and emerging risks.
• Ensure processes and procedures are followed, continuously improved, and changes are effectively managed to minimise cost, programme, safety, compliance, and environmental impacts.

What should you bring to the role?

To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you'll need are:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Significant experience working in a design or related role.
• A good understanding of the Construction/Operational business.
• Good IT skills.
• Excellent technical acumen in the relevant field.
• Excellent communication skills and customer service ethic.
• Commercially aware with a good practical understanding of engineering contracts.
• A great team player with the ability to work collaboratively in a challenging project environment.
• You will be self-starting, resilient and tenacious under pressure, with a desire to successfully deliver projects to time, cost and to quality.

Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:

• Membership of a relevant professional institution, or equivalent.

What's in it for you?

Offering a salary up to 55,000 per annum depending on skills and experience. Annual Leave: 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays). Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets. Generous Pension Scheme through AON. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family's health and wellbeing, and your finances from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Who are we?

We're the UK's largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive.

Learn more about our purpose and values. Working at Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you'll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

If you're looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people's lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we'll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.

Why choose us?

We're committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that's extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we're here to help and support.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you'll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.