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MEICA Lead - Southern Water
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MEICA Lead – Southern Water
Location: Chichester (with travel across the Southern Water framework)
We are seeking a MEICA Lead to play a key role in the successful delivery of projects across the Southern Water Framework. Working closely with Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, commissioning teams, designers, and supply chain partners, you will provide leadership and oversight for MEICA and commissioning activities throughout the project lifecycle, from design development through to project handover and takeover.
This role is responsible for ensuring the safe, efficient, and compliant delivery of MEICA and commissioning activities across an assigned project portfolio. You will help ensure that installations are completed in line with programme requirements, commissioning activities are planned and executed effectively, and all associated documentation and quality requirements are delivered to the required standards.
The MEICA Lead will contribute to design development, procurement, commissioning strategy, quality assurance, and project performance, while supporting the achievement of programme, cost, safety, and environmental objectives.
What you'll be doing:
- Provide MEICA leadership and support throughout the full project lifecycle.
- Work closely with the MEICA & Commissioning Manager, Project Managers, and project teams to ensure successful project delivery.
- Maintain an appropriate site presence to support project requirements and delivery objectives.
- Coordinate, review, and optimise MEICA technical solutions, ensuring compliance with design specifications, client requirements, and regulatory standards.
- Collaborate with design teams to ensure project-specific MEICA requirements and commissioning strategies are fully understood and incorporated into designs.
- Promote a positive, customer-focused approach in all activities and stakeholder interactions.
- Support procurement activities, including the selection of mechanical, electrical, and specialist subcontractors.
- Assist with achieving client validation milestones and corporate social responsibility commitments.
- Apply and promote quality, safety, and environmental standards across all project activities.
- Carry out safety inspections and contribute to the creation of a safe and inclusive working environment.
- Act as a technical interface between the project team and the client.
- Provide regular updates to management teams on MEICA and commissioning performance, risks, forecasts, and key issues.
- Manage technical queries and support robust change control processes.
- Promote technical excellence, continuous improvement, and the sharing of best practice.
- Lead, support, and develop team members where applicable.
- Contribute to framework supplier selection and procurement strategy development.
- Monitor design deliverables to ensure they meet required quality and programme expectations.
- Ensure effective integration of supply chain design contributions within the overall project design package.
- Support the development and delivery of Project Commissioning Plans, Commissioning Strategies, and associated documentation.
- Develop commissioning approaches from concept and outline design through to detailed delivery and project handover.
- Monitor commissioning documentation and status reporting to ensure alignment with project requirements.
- Identify MEICA and commissioning resource requirements early and manage resources effectively throughout delivery.
- Collaborate with specialist disciplines, including DSEAR specialists, Technical Authors, and Document Controllers, to ensure project requirements are understood and delivered.
- Ensure electrical and mechanical safety standards and rules are consistently applied.
- Coordinate MEICA and commissioning activities across Galliford Try teams and subcontract partners.
- Ensure training requirements are planned and delivered in line with project programmes.
- Maintain compliance with all Galliford Try MEICA and commissioning processes and procedures.
- Work with Quality teams to develop and implement project quality plans where required.
- Ensure commissioning activities are fully integrated into the overall project programme and that regular commissioning meetings are held.
- Verify that all MEICA installation work complies with project specifications, client asset standards, and relevant industry standards, including WIMES where applicable.
- Coordinate and evidence pre-takeover maintenance and operational readiness activities.
- Ensure commissioning issues, defects, and outstanding works are resolved in a timely manner.
- Foster a collaborative, safe, and high-performing team environment.
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About you:
- Significant experience within the water industry.
- Experience leading MEICA and/or commissioning activities on complex projects.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build effective relationships with clients, project teams, and supply chain partners.
- Proven leadership capabilities and the ability to support the successful delivery of project objectives.
- Strong technical knowledge and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to work effectively to programme deadlines and key project milestones.
- Experience managing subcontractors and supply chain partners throughout the project lifecycle.
- A structured approach to design, procurement, commissioning, and project handover activities.
- Strong organisational and communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications for reporting and presentations.
- A sound understanding of health, safety, environmental, and quality principles.
- Knowledge of water industry processes and practices.
- An understanding of mechanical and electrical systems used within the water sector.
Qualifications (or working towards):
- A minimum of an HND/HNC in a related Engineering discipline (BEng/MEng preferred)
- CSCS or ECS card in an appropriate discipline
- EUSR National Water Hygiene Card
- SMSTS (preferred) with SSSTS (minimum)
- First Aid at Work (preferred)
- CompEx ExF (preferred)
What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £4.3 billion, we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long-held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented, and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.
We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our ‘Be Well’ programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice, and support for a range of issues.
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Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when you feel valued and engaged.
Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where, and how you work. Where appropriate, site and office-based employees can take advantage of a wide variety of working practices, offering different amounts of structure, regularity, and flexibility to suit your needs as well as those of your wider team.
Our Benefits:
We put our people first, and our benefits package reflects that by offering a comprehensive range of attractive options to help support your career on top of a competitive salary.
- Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
- A wide range of corporate discounts
- Cycle to Work schemes
- Comprehensive pension plan
- Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
- Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
- Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role
About us:
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain, and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.
For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our business, please contact charlotte.gornall@gallifordtry.co.uk
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours, or flexibly, and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.
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