Production Maintenance Technician

TN United Kingdom; Havant; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Production Maintenance Technician to join their team. This role is crucial in maintaining production assets and supporting technical training while ensuring compliance with maintenance schedules. You will be responsible for monitoring asset performance and responding to breakdowns, all while collaborating with a diverse team. If you are passionate about delivering excellent service and eager to learn new technologies, this position offers you the chance to make a significant impact in the water industry. Flexible working arrangements are available, reflecting the company's commitment to inclusivity and employee well-being.

Qualifications

• Skilled qualification with a recognised apprenticeship in a relevant field.
• A to C grade GSCE English and Maths, ideally with a Science subject.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with maintenance schedules and maintain production assets.
• Respond to breakdowns on M&E plant and carry out repairs as necessary.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Adaptability

Systems Based Skills

Customer Service

Technical Knowledge

Education

Recognised Apprenticeship

A to C Grade GSCE English and Maths

Science Based Subject

Tools

Electrical Drawings

Computer Literacy

Smartphone Literacy

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26.04.2025

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10.06.2025

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Job Description:

We’re making a difference: Together, we can ensure that there is enough water for everyone, now and in the future.

Portsmouth Water is recruiting a Production Maintenance Technician to maintain production assets, support technical training, review work quality, and provide expertise for water treatment and distribution networks. This role assists the Production Technical Team Leader in ensuring efficient operations and implementing necessary improvements.

What will you be doing?

Key Responsibilities
Ensure compliance with planned maintenance schedules.
Maintain instrumentation, low voltage switchgear, valves, dosing equipment, pneumatic plant, pumps and motors.
Visiting water treatment works, pumping stations, reservoirs, monitoring asset performance and operability of the water treatment works across sites and to carry out essential duties.
Collect asset performance data, recording routine activities and work completed.
Demonstrate an ability to read, understand and work from electrical drawings.
Respond to breakdowns on a range of M&E plant, assess problems, decide on action, acquire spares and carry out repairs as necessary.
Ensure that equipment is maintained and calibrated to the manufacturers specifications and is auditable.
To exchange information with other team members, plant operators and departments within the Company as required.
To complete documentation accurately and in a timely manner to maintain internal change control standards.
Monitoring of external activities in the areas surrounding our works for any activities that may affect the integrity of the water sources, asset reliability, available leakage measures, and levels of unplanned outage.

What do you need?

Skills, Qualifications & Competencies

To be considered for this role, you’ll need to have a skilled qualification, which includes having completed a recognised apprenticeship in a relevant field.
Adaptable with good attention to detail.
Accountable for own actions with a willingness to collaborate with others, whilst developing and sharing knowledge, ideas, and best practice with others.
Empathetic, self-aware, and comfortable with constructively challenging areas that could be improved.
Systems based skills, open to learning new technology.
Passionate about providing an excellent service, to our customer, colleagues, across teams and the wider Water Industry.
A to C grade or Level 4 or above, GSCE English and Maths and ideally a Science based subject.
Computer and smart phone literate.
Full UK driving licence (Will be required to undertake our driver assessment).

We recognise people want to work in a variety of different ways, this means we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you may want.

We support equality, diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from all sections of society. The Company has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to work and live in the UK.

Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to respond to unsuccessful candidates. If your application is of interest to us, we will normally contact you within 4 weeks of receiving your application.