Battery and Generator Maintenance Team Leader

Thames Water Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range

Car allowance

Leave days

Performance pay

Pension

Health & wellbeing

Cycle to Work

Life assurance

Job summary

Thames Water seeks a Battery and Generator Maintenance Team Leader to oversee contractor delivery and maintenance of critical assets. The role focuses on safety, compliance and performance, ensuring readiness during power disruptions.

Base location is flexible for London or Thames Valley with a 36-hour week (Mon-Fri). You will manage contract performance, QA, and stakeholder relations while driving improvements across the power resilience portfolio.

Qualifications

• Experience managing contractor delivery within engineering, mechanical or utilities environments.
• Experience overseeing planned work, managing budgets and ensuring compliance.
• Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and external contractors while building strong working relationships.

Responsibilities

• Oversee contractor performance to ensure maintenance activities meet standards, timelines and budgets.
• Implement and monitor quality assurance and compliance across contracted works.
• Act as primary interface between Thames Water supervisors and contractor organisations to drive collaboration and continuous improvement.

Skills

Contract management

Maintenance coordination

Budget management

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Power Resilience is critical to Thames Water's ability to provide safe, reliable services to millions of customers. We are expanding our Power Resilience capability to strengthen how power is planned, maintained and enhanced across our operations. We are looking for talented individuals to join this growing team and help shape a coordinated, data-led approach to managing Power Resilience across Thames Water.

What you’ll be doing as a Battery and Generator Maintenance Team Leader:

The Maintenance Team Leader supports contractor delivery to meet safety, compliance and performance standards, ensuring critical standby power assets are maintained and tested effectively so they are ready to support operations during power disruptions.

As Maintenance Team Leader, you will be responsible for overseeing maintenance performance across a diverse portfolio of critical assets, providing operational assurance through site audits and identifying opportunities to enhance resilience processes and ways of working across Thames Water.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a vital area of UK infrastructure and make a meaningful difference to customer outcomes and environmental protection. As the team grows, members will play an important role in shaping future ways of working and bringing their expertise to create lasting positive impact across Thames Water.

Base location: Location can be flexible for both London or Thames Valley (e.g., Hampton, Beckton, Maple Lodge, Cirencester, Reading, Slough, Swindon & Oxford)

Working pattern or hours: 36 Hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Key responsibilities:

• Contract Management and Delivery Oversight: You will oversee contractor performance, ensuring all maintenance activities are delivered to agreed standards, timelines and budgets while fostering positive and collaborative working relationships.
• Quality Assurance and Compliance: You will implement and monitor quality assurance processes and compliance across contracted works, manage performance reporting and ensure risks are identified, addressed and escalated where necessary.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Continuous Improvement: You will act as the primary interface between Thames Water supervisors and contractor organisations, supporting effective communication, collaboration and timely resolution of issues while encouraging continuous improvement.

What you should bring to the role?

• Experience managing contractor delivery within engineering, mechanical or utilities environments.
• Experience overseeing planned work, managing budgets and ensuring compliance.
• Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and external contractors while building strong working relationships.

The essential criteria to help you succeed in this role is:

• In-depth knowledge of mechanical engineering and maintenance principles.
• Strong understanding of management, asset management and quality assurance.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Full UK Driving Licence.
• IT literacy, including maintenance and contract management systems.

What’s in it for you?

• Offering a salary between £55,000 to £68,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
• Car allowance of £4,500 per annum.
• 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 a wide range of benefits designed to support you and your family's health, wellbeing and finances, from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.