Drainage Engineer

Arcus FM Limited.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facilities management company is seeking a Drainage Engineer in South East London. This role involves planned and reactive drainage tasks, emergency responses, and ensuring high standards of safety. Ideal candidates will have a UK driving licence and experience with commercial drainage systems. The position offers a salary of £36,713 per annum with various benefits including a pension scheme and training opportunities.

Benefits

25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

Van and fuel card

Smartphone, tools, uniform, PPE

Up to 4% discretionary bonus scheme

Group personal pension scheme

Life Assurance

Health Cash Plan

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence is essential.
• CSCS card, high pressure water jetting qualification, and confined space certification are desirable.
• Experience in commercial drainage systems, preferably in a retail environment.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and identify faults with equipment and systems.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements.
• Sponsor and complete drainage surveys and technical reports.
• Act as a Brand Ambassador for the company.

Skills

Understanding of commercial drainage systems

Ability to work unsupervised

High pressure water jetting qualification

Confined space certification

Teamwork

Job description

Why Join Us

We have a great opportunity for a Drainage Engineer to join our team that covers South East London and the wider areas.

The main purpose of the role will be to carry out planned and reactive drainage tasks safely and to a high standard.

You will be providing a first line response to all emergencies during normal working hours and providing an out of hours service when on call, to keep out customer’s trading.

• Salary: £36,713 per annum
• Door to door pay
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Van (with option for personal use from day 1) and fuel card
• Smartphone, tools, uniform, PPE
• Up to 4% discretionary bonus scheme, subject to achievement of targets

What You'll Be Doing

Duties & responsibilities:

• Effectively diagnose and identify faults and failures with equipment and systems and provide effective solutions and escalates where necessary.
• Ensure compliance with all health and safety requirements and adhere to best working practices at all times, following processes laid down by the Health and Safety policy.
• Sponsor and complete drainage surveys and technical reports as necessary and to cascade all key data to relevant personnel throughout field operations.
• Be a Brand Ambassador for Arcus, you are what the client sees first; making a good impression, complying with the dress code and maintaining your vehicle in good condition.
• Actively support colleagues building a teamwork approach e.g. – supporting with training and up skilling of apprentices and communicating regularly and assisting when required.

What We're Looking For

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Full UK driving licence (Essential)
• CSCS card (Desirable)
• High pressure water jetting qualification (Desirable)
• Confined space certification (Desirable)
• Understanding of commercial drainage systems ideally gained within a retail environment
• Understanding of CCTV and the ability to work unsupervised in a fast‑paced environment dealing with store teams and members of the public

Additional information:

• 45-hour working week
• 1 in 4 week on call rota

When you join us you will receive:

• Group personal pension scheme of matched contributions between 5% and 6%
• Life Assurance
• Access to state-of-the-art training academy
• Funded Training Sponsorship Scheme
• Refer a Friend reward scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Health Cash Plan
• Up to 10% off B&Q/ Trade Point
• 20% off Nuffield Fitness and Wellbeing Centres

At Arcus we are passionate about individual development which is why we are proud to offer industry leading Learning & Development opportunities to our colleagues. At our National Training Academy in Stevenage we have our own in‑house team of experienced technical trainers who focus on upskilling and cross‑skilling our rapidly expanding mobile engineering team. Colleagues can expect to receive significant investment in safety and technical training to ensure ongoing development of their skills and expertise and to ensure we retain our industry leading self‑delivery capability.

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