Drainage Engineer

Arcus FM Limited.; Royal Tunbridge Wells; On-site; GBP 37,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Drainage Engineer to join their dynamic team covering Kent and the South East. In this role, you will be responsible for diagnosing and resolving drainage issues, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and acting as a brand ambassador. With a focus on individual development, the company offers extensive training opportunities and a supportive environment. Enjoy a competitive salary with additional perks like a company van, tools, and a generous leave policy. If you are passionate about drainage engineering and want to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Group personal pension scheme

Life Assurance

Access to training academy

Funded Training Sponsorship Scheme

Refer a Friend reward scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Health Cash Plan

Employee discounts at B&Q

Discounts at Nuffield Fitness

Qualifications

• Must have a full UK driving licence and ideally a CSCS card.
• Experience in commercial drainage systems and CCTV operation is essential.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned and reactive drainage tasks safely and to a high standard.
• Provide first line response to emergencies and support team members.

Skills

Diagnosing faults and failures

Health and safety compliance

Teamwork and communication

Understanding of commercial drainage systems

CCTV operation

Education

Full UK driving licence

CSCS card

High pressure water jetting qualification

Tools

Smartphone

PPE

Tools

Job description

Why Join Us

We have a great opportunity for a Drainage Engineer to join our team that covers a wide range of areas including Kent, the South East & Suffolk and can travel within a 2-3 hours radius.

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 our customer’s trading.

• Salary: £36,713 per annum
• Door to door pay
• Overtime readily available
• 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 escalate 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)
• 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.

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity, apply today by clicking on the ‘apply’ button.

Requisition ID

2025-7053