ICA Technician – Fresh Water PLC/SCADA Expert

Southern Water; Chatham; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Van with fuel card for business use

Health care cash plan

Pension

25 days holiday

Job summary

Southern Water is seeking a skilled maintenance engineer to join the Fresh Water Team in Chatham. You will maintain and improve ICA systems across multiple sites, ensuring reliability, compliance, and efficiency of control systems.

The role involves fault finding, calibration, programming, implementing improvements, and contributing to ongoing modernisation. A full UK driving licence and PLC/SCADA experience are essential.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in Electrical or Electronic Engineering OR time-served apprenticeship (or equivalent).
• Strong problem-solving and fault-finding skills.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Experience with PLC programming and SCADA systems.
• Live within 45 mins of our sites

Responsibilities

• Planned, reactive & proactive maintenance including fault finding, calibration, testing, investigation and programming on equipment sets including; telemetry, analysers, dosing equipment, control (e.g. networks, MCC/LVA components, PID controllers) and instrumentation (e.g. flowmeters, level transmitters, pressure transducers, temperature probes)
• Implementing process improvements
• Diagnosing control system faults on PLC control systems such as; Rockwell, Mitsubishi, Allen Bradley and a range of package plant PLC's.
• HMI & SCADA system backups and modifications.
• Setup and maintenance of site control networks
• Undertaking planned maintenance and/or calibrating instrumentation
• Responding to faults/ alarms
• Completing documentation accurately and in a timely manner
• Being part of a 1 in 7 Week Standby Rota.

Skills

Strong problem-solving and fault-fndng

Full UK driving licence

Experience with PLC programming and SC

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Electrical or Electronic Engineering OR time-served apprenticeship

ONC or HNC in Instrumentation, Electronics, or Control

Tools

Rockwell PLC

Mitsubishi PLC

Allen-Bradley PLC

SCADA systems

Job description

Southern Water is seeking a skilled maintenance engineer to join the Fresh Water Team in Chatham. You will maintain and improve ICA systems across multiple sites, ensuring reliability, compliance, and efficiency of control systems.

The role involves fault finding, calibration, programming, implementing improvements, and contributing to ongoing modernisation. A full UK driving licence and PLC/SCADA experience are essential.