Electrical Technician

Thames Water Utilities Limited; Thatcham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Thames Water Utilities Limited is seeking an experienced Electrical Technician to join the Pumping Stations Technical Support team in the Thames Valley region. The role covers Reading, Oxford, Swindon, and Aylesbury, with potential coverage elsewhere in the Thames Valley catchment.

You will maintain sewage pumping stations, record asset information, and help monitor sites remotely while delivering safe, high-quality technical support and training to the team.

Qualifications

• Time-served apprentice with significant electrical/mechanical experience or NVQ/C&G level 3 in electrical engineering.
• 18th Edition preferred, but training can be provided.
• Experience working on 3-phase electrical systems and electrical control panels.
• Excellent communicator providing technical expertise to staff and contractors.
• Resilient and able to work under pressure in a changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure health, safety and wellbeing of all site personnel and visitors by adhering to regulations and guidelines.
• Undertake reactive and planned maintenance, respond to alarms, fault-find, and install new plant/equipment as required.
• Record work and asset information to improve performance and flag potential risks.
• Provide technical advice and coaching to staff and apprentices under supervision.
• Deliver excellent customer experience and interact professionally with internal and external customers.

Skills

Excellent communicator

Problem solver

Team player

Full UK driving licence

Education

NVQ or C&G level 3 in electrical engineering

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Electrical Technician to join our Pumping Stations Technical Support team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-performing Pumping Team in the Thames Valley region. This role will primarily be situated within the Reading, Oxford, Swindon and Aylesbury areas, but you may be required to cover other areas within the Thames Valley catchment. Your daily tasks will be essential for ensuring that our Sewage Pumping Stations are operating as desired, and that information is fed back to the internal system so that sites can be monitored remotely.

Accordingly, you will be stepping into a role of great responsibility, and you will be expected to embrace this. Your working environment will be fast-paced and varied, with plenty of opportunities for training and development in areas that you find interesting.

What you'll be doing as the Electrical Technician

• Ensuring the health, safety and well-being of yourself, colleagues, contractors, and visitors by always displaying the correct behaviours, complying with the Health and Safety at Work regulations and Thames Water's Health and Safety guidelines.
• Undertaking both reactive and planned maintenance, responding to alarms and fault finding to identify issues, fix these or elevate, planned maintenance of plant and equipment daily, installing new plant and equipment as required in line with current Standards and Regulations.
• Record work and asset information to improve business performance, along with identifying possible future risks and recommending changes in the course of your day-to-day work and to raise these for resolution as required.
• Provide specialist technical advice where appropriate, with up-to-date technical knowledge, along with coaching, training and developing staff under your supervision, including the apprenticeship programme.
• Delivering excellent customer experience and positively contributing to overall customer satisfaction. Interacting with all of our customers (internal & external) in a timely, professional, efficient, respectful and polite manner.

You should be a time-served apprentice with significant experience in mechanical/electrical systems or with NVQ or C&G level 3 in electrical engineering.

• 18th Edition preferred, but training can be given.
• Experience working on 3-phase electrical systems and electrical control panels.
• A problem solver, able to identify potential issues and implement solutions, or elevate if required.
• An excellent communicator, providing technical expertise to Internal and External staff and contractors.
• Resilient, adapting to the pressures of work and working in a constantly changing environment.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision, under own initiative to design and standards.
• Knowledge and awareness of Health and Safety issues relevant to the industry.
• Team player who can work in many different teams, showing respect for others, providing helpful feedback and supporting the development of others.
• Full UK driving licence.