Field Technical Coordinator — Wastewater Plant Maintenance

Thames Water; Earlswood, Crawley; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car allowance

Pension

Annual leave

Performance bonus

Wellbeing benefits

Life assurance

Job summary

Thames Water is seeking a motivated Technical Coordinator to join our Operations team, based at Earlswood or Crawley Sewage Treatment Works, with the flexibility to travel to around 9 other sites. This field-facing role works closely with Performance Managers and a skilled team of technicians to keep our assets reliable and compliant.

You'll design operationally critical jobs, manage internal and contractor activity, maintain plant availability, drive safety compliance, and help deliver strong

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of plant, equipment, and operational processes.
• Collaborative – able to work closely with Planners, Field Performance Managers, suppliers, and 3rd parties.
• Technically experienced with a good understanding of how to maintain assets.
• Good local knowledge of how important an asset is to a site and how it relates to other assets.
• Meticulous at documenting the finer details of what needs to take place.
• Able to manage a large workload of numerous jobs in parallel.
• Competent with IT systems (will use SAP extensively) as well as effective communication skills.
• Knowledge and awareness of health and safety issues relevant to the industry; ideally you will be IOSH or equivalent qualified.
• A full UK driving licence is essential for this position as the role involves travelling around our sites.

Responsibilities

• Use technical expertise and data captured from the field to design operationally critical jobs.
• Highlight key operational risks across the area and present these to obtain funding.
• Maintain the availability of plant and equipment and optimise treatment process performance.
• Develop strong collaborative relationships with other internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide expert advice on technical issues and generate solutions to operational risks.
• Obtain quotes, order materials and 3rd party services through our framework contractors.
• Ensure all aspects of Health and Safety are managed correctly, through safe system of work approval, reviewing RAMS, permitting and site audits.
• You will be responsible for ensuring that our legal statutory maintenance requirements are met.

Skills

Plant knowledge

Collaborative

Asset maintenance

Site asset knowledge

Documentation

Workload management

SAP

IOSH qualified

Driving licence

Tools

SAP

Job description

Thames Water is seeking a motivated Technical Coordinator to join our Operations team, based at Earlswood or Crawley Sewage Treatment Works, with the flexibility to travel to around 9 other sites. This field-facing role works closely with Performance Managers and a skilled team of technicians to keep our assets reliable and compliant.

You'll design operationally critical jobs, manage internal and contractor activity, maintain plant availability, drive safety compliance, and help deliver strong