Telemetry Field Engineer

Severn Trent; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to £45,470.88 depending on ervaring

25 days holiday + bank holidays (buy/s

Annual bonus scheme (up to £2,225)

Pension scheme – double your input

Sharesave

Dedicated training and development

Family friendly policies

Job summary

Severn Trent is seeking a Telemetry Field Engineer to maintain 7,000 telemetry outstations and ensure continuous operation of critical assets across our network.

You will perform field and remote work, carry out firmware upgrades, enforce security policies, and contribute to the AMP8 replacement programme to keep systems up-to-date and secure.

Qualifications

• Electrical NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.
• Excellent fault finding skills.
• Experience with telemetry outstations.

Responsibilities

• Carry out reactive maintenance to ensure 100% availability across the outstation estate.
• Complete on-site and remote firmware upgrades to improve cyber security.
• Roll out the password policy across all outstations to ensure compliance.
• Identify and carry out improvement tasks on repeat offending sites.
• Carry out asset replacement and upgrades as part of the AMP8 outstation programme (2G and PSTN).

Skills

Fault finding

Telemetry outstations

WITS devices

IP enabled devices

Education

Electrical NVQ Level 3

Job description

About this role

In this role as a Telemetry Field Engineer you will be responsible for ensuring the functionality and availability of Severn Trent's 7,000 telemetry outstations, which serve as the 'eyes and ears' of the company's operational assets.

A covering letter for this role would be advisable confirming you have the qualifications needed or equivalent. For this role you must have an Electrical NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.

These outstations are critical to the performance of Severn Trent's operational ODIs and enable the Operational Control Centres to effectively respond to asset failure alarms.

Your primary objective will be to complete any necessary field work to ensure that the entire outstation estate remains fully operational and available 100% of the time.

Accountabilities

• Carry out reactive maintenance tasks to ensure 100% availability across our outstation estate (e.g replace on failure, comms failure)


• Complete both on site and remote firmware upgrades across the outstation estate to improve Severn Trent's cyber security position


• Roll out the password policy across all outstations to ensure compliance to NIS-R


• Identify and carry out improvement tasks on repeat offending sites


• Carry out asset replacement and upgrades as part of the AMP8 outstation replacement programme (2G and PSTN)

In order to be successful in this role it is expected that you will have excellent fault finding skills along with prior knowledge of telemetry outstation.

It would be good if you have worked with WITS compliant devices along with IP enabled devices. For this role you must have an Electrical NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.

Why join Severn Trent?

Hello, we're Severn Trent and we think water is wonderful. Oh, we're pretty keen on people too. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year we serve 4.8 million households and business across the heart of the UK. Each cuppa drank and every toilet flushed is only possible because of the 6,500 brilliant team members working across our patch.

We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality. We know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our customers and the communities where they live.

Working here isn't just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent, and we'll reward you for it too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we'll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.

Perks & Benefits

• Up to £45,470.88 depending on experience.


• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/sell up to 5 days per year) + company Van


• Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,225 per annum based on company performance)


• Leading pension scheme - we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)


• Sharesave - the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate


• Dedicated training and development with our 'Academy'


• Family friendly policies