Technical Coordinator - Waste Water

Pertemps Thames Water; Earlswood, Crawley; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Thames Water is seeking a proactive Technical Coordinator to join the Operations team. Based at Earlswood or Crawley, you’ll travel to around 9 other sites, coordinating maintenance with field teams and external contractors.

You’ll manage SAP prerequisites, design critical jobs from field data, assess risks, and ensure safety and statutory maintenance. A full UK driving licence and strong collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of plant, equipment, and operational processes.
• Collaborative – able to work with Planners, Field Performance Managers, suppliers, and 3rd parties.
• Technically experienced with a good understanding of how to maintain assets.
• Good local knowledge of asset criticality to sites.
• Meticulous at documenting the finer details of what needs to take place.
• Able to manage a large workload of numerous jobs in parallel.
• Proficient with IT systems, particularly SAP.
• Health & safety knowledge; IOSH or equivalent preferred.
• Full UK driving licence essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage prerequisites within SAP (materials, permits, resources, and services) for all complex jobs.
• Use field data to design operationally critical jobs.
• Highlight operational risks to obtain funding.
• Maintain plant and equipment availability and optimise process performance.
• Develop strong relationships with internal/external stakeholders.
• Provide expert advice on technical issues and operational risks.
• Obtain quotes and order materials/3rd party services through framework contractors.
• Ensure Health and Safety via safe systems of work, RAMS, permitting, site audits.
• Ensure statutory maintenance requirements (lifting equipment, pressure vessels, generators) are met.

Skills

Field coordination

Maintenance planning

Stakeholder collaboration

Health & safety awareness

Driving licence

Tools

SAP

Job description

We’re looking for a motivated and proactive Technical Coordinatorto join our Operations team, based from our Earlswood and Crawley Sewage Treatment Works with flexibility to travel around 9 other sites.

This is an exciting chance to play a key role within the team, working predominantly in the field and closely with a supportive and experienced operations team. As a Technical Coordinator, you’ll work side‑by‑side with local Performance Managers and a diverse team of technicians - including mechanical, electrical and ICA specialists. You’ll take ownership of delivering planned and reactive maintenance, coordinating both internal field teams and external contractors.

What will you be doing as a Technical Coordinator?

• You will be responsible for the management of the prerequisites within SAP (materials, permits, resources and services) for all complex jobs for planned and reactive work across maintenance and operations.
• 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. These will include items such as lifting equipment, pressure vessels and generators.

Location: Earlswood or Crawley Sewage Treatment Works, with flexibility to travel around 9 other sites

Hours: 36 per week, Monday to Friday

Salary: Salary from £39,770 per annum, depending on skills and experience.

To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you need are:

• 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.

Desirable

• Completed a time‑served apprenticeship or hold a recognised technical qualification in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Preferably experience working within Water or Wastewater Treatment, or a comparable industrial environment.

What’s in it for you?

• Salary up to £47,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
• Company Car Allowance of £4,500.
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON
• Generous Paternity Leave, including 4 weeks paid and an optional 2 weeks unpaid.
• Enhanced Maternity Leave, 26 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay!
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of yourself and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTS and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.
• Find out more about our benefits and perks (Please note different T&Cs apply if on secondment)

Who are we?

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Learn more about our purpose and values

Working at Thames Water

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.

Real purpose, real support, real opportunities.

Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.

We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work.

We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers.

As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.