Technician Single Skilled

Technician Single Skilled

What is the purpose of this role?

To carry out planned, corrective and emergency maintenance to equipment at various Sewage Treatment Works and local pumping stations across the London area in a safe, efficient and effective manner with minimum supervision.

What makes this role unique?

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for an individual to join a dedicated maintenance team working across the London area. Your work will directly impact maintenance objectives.

Working on some of the most advanced technology in the industry, you will have the opportunity to work on processes that will provide you with skills and experience that cannot be gained elsewhere in the company.

Working in a small close knit team that have a good working relationship with the Operations team you will be the expert in the area and looked to as such. This role is essential for the maintenance of our sites and their efficiency.

This busy hands on role will suit those whom have worked in a field technician role previously, working on plant or industrial equipment performing testing’s and diagnosis readings/reports.

What will this role involve?

This role will involve carrying out Planned Preventative Maintenance in accordance with the maintenance plans. You will also be carrying out defect maintenance including fault diagnosis and repair of industrial equipment involved in the sewage treatment process. Experience working with 3 phase supply is a necessity. You will also be reading and understanding drawings, identifying parts and components. You will be expected to work with minimum supervision and plan your own day, depending on work load and importance of the task.

What skills are we looking for?

Technicians need to have served a recognised apprenticeship with a minimum of City and Guilds part 2 in electrical engineering or BTEC electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. You must have 3 phase electrical experience and working with industrial plant equipment and controls. Flexibility as travel to various sites is required.

You must also demonstrate support for other team members and recognise collective responsibility to ensure the smooth running of the team. You will have good inter-personal skills and be an effective communicator with the ability and willingness to train and develop personal skill base. You must also have a knowledge and awareness of Health and Safety requirements.

Thames Water information & Salary

This role is based in and around the London area and pays up to £20.71 an hour. This role is expected to last for 12 weeks but this could be extended. Once in the business you are free to apply for permanent positions. Please note a full Driving Licence is required for this role.

Why Thames Water?

Thames Water is the UK’s biggest water and sewerage company. We provide the essential service at the heart of daily life, health and enjoyment to 14 million customers across London and the Thames Valley.

On a typical day we supply 2.6 billion litres of top quality drinking water and our 350 sewage treatment works treat more than 4.2bn litres of wastewater. Our 85,000 miles of water mains and sewers would wrap around the world three-and-a-half times.

We have an amazing history, but are equally excited by the future. We already self-generate enough electricity to power a city the size of Oxford, but by 2020 we expect 20 per cent of our power will come from sewage. We also built the UK’s first sewage recycling plant on the Olympic Park and understand the importance of speaking to our youngest customers by visiting them at school.

We will not compromise on standards which is why we carry out more than 400,000 tests per year on our drinking water. We continue to invest and this year will be spending more than £1 billion to improve our network and infrastructure – our pipes, sewage treatment and clean water treatment plants, which are some of the biggest and most advanced in Europe.

Above all this, Thames Water values its staff as number one. The enormous scale of our work means we have to recruit and develop only the most talented candidates. Are you up to the challenge?

Our people

You would never guess half of the jobs we have at Thames Water. These range from the usual head office roles in customer service, HR and finance as well as specialist water and wastewater roles. Other areas that are not so obvious include our community investment team, sewer flushers, nature reserve rangers and historians.

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