29798 - MEICA Engineer

This role is an exciting opportunity for a mechanical or electrical engineer to utilise their skills and experience providing mechanical or electrical technical support across the Environment Agency. Working within the Technical Authority, your remit will be broad, from ensuring that technical publications are drafted, published, and maintained, as well as providing technical advice and guidance across the business. You will also use your skills to support the review of incidents, technical issues, and application of standards. You will manage the development, and implementation of processes, for assuring our standards and processes, and report outcomes and outputs to our internal and external partners. You will provide support to your manager and team colleagues, by managing the planning, auditing, directing, allocating and communicating of work plans to deliver an annual programme of work for our internal and external customer requirements. You will play a key in the delivery of MEICA maintenance plans aligned to our requirements for asset health, condition and reliability. You will manage the processes for ensuring our MEICA standards are reflected within our data systems. Ensuring clarity in our inventory management and data analysis processes. You will be required to hold a national incident response role which may be within normal working hours or out of hours., You will join the MEICA Engineering standards team in Engineering & Technical Assurance, part of the Asset Management and Engineering department, within the Flood and Coastal Risk Management Directorate. The team has a varied role providing technical standards, management, and leadership across a range of mechanical, electrical and control system activities across the organisation. The team are dispersed but have a strong identity, regularly linking together to collaborate within the team and across the business.

• A good working knowledge of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations, Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations, Electricity at Work Regulations, Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations, Pressure Systems Safety Regulations and other legislation pertaining to mechanical and electrical systems.
• Drafting and publishing of mechanical and electrical procedures, instructions, and guidance
• Knowledge in the technical authorship and preparation of technical specifications and standards
• Good data management skills, in particular use of digital asset management and maintenance scheduling systems.
• Knowledge of Asset Management (IAM foundation and/or Certificate desirable) understanding of differing approaches to maintenance, application of reliability centred maintenance and a knowledge of root cause analysis techniques.
Good working knowledge of Sharepoint and the use of MS 365 applications, such as Planner, Lists, Power BI.