Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Natural Resources Wales
MEICA Engineer
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The Role
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
- Issuing and managing work programmes to contractors
- Monitoring performance
- Ensuring timely completion of works
- Reporting on progress
- Identifying risks
- Providing strong fault-finding support to resolve equipment issues and minimize disruption
The role involves managing low to moderate risk contracts, ensuring compliance with health and safety, statutory requirements, and value for money. You will also contribute to improvement and capital projects up to £50k, including design input, technical reviews, and project delivery, with a focus on flood risk assets.
You will liaise with electricity network operators, support emergency response through a standby rota, and collaborate 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.
What You Will Do
- Manage the reactive and planned maintenance programme of MEICA works through the MEICA computerized 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 while 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
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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.
- 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 recognized 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, computerized 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 license
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.
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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
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 a variety of topics, stay current in their field, and continue to learn as their career progresses.
We are a Bilingual organization 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.
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To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Craig Burdon at craig.burdon@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk
Interviews will take place on 03/08/2026 through Microsoft Teams.
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