OT Operations Technician - SCADA & PLC Specialist

Institute of Water; Walsall; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

South Staffordshire Water is seeking a Technician to join the Operational Technology (OT) Operations team in a hybrid role based in Walsall, West Midlands. The position covers day-to-day technical support, maintenance and fault resolution across the OT estate, including SCADA, PLCs and telemetry, in a critical national infrastructure environment.

The role offers a full-time permanent contract, 37.5 hours per week, with a salary of £41,600 per annum and hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting, maintaining or fault-finding industrial control, automation, telemetry or OT systems.
• Understanding of industrial control systems and associated equipment.
• Strong diagnostic and fault-finding skills across electrical, control, communications or computing technologies.
• Experience working within planned and reactive maintenance environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support OT systems across sites to maximise reliability.
• Carry out maintenance, fault resolution and routine health checks on OT estate.
• Respond to incidents, diagnose faults and support system recovery.
• Support back-up, recovery and resilience testing activities.
• Assist with compliance, cyber security standards and system changes.

Skills

Industrial control systems

Diagnostics

Electrical & electronics

Automation & telemetry

Education

Electrical/electronic engineering qualifications

Tools

SCADA

PLC

RTU

OT networking

Job description

South Staffordshire Water is seeking a Technician to join the Operational Technology (OT) Operations team in a hybrid role based in Walsall, West Midlands. The position covers day-to-day technical support, maintenance and fault resolution across the OT estate, including SCADA, PLCs and telemetry, in a critical national infrastructure environment.

The role offers a full-time permanent contract, 37.5 hours per week, with a salary of £41,600 per annum and hybrid working arrangements.