Water Technician - Nights

Morson Group; London Borough of Hackney; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension

Online GP

Employee Assistance

My Rewards Discounts

Life Assurance

Cycle to Work

Salary Finance

Give as you Earn

Holiday Entitlement 21+

Overtime

Personal Accident Cover

Health Care Plan

Job summary

M Group is seeking a Service Technician to join our London-based water network team. The role is a night shift, Sunday to Thursday, based at Hackney, covering sites across London and the Thames Valley, performing valve operations, responding to incidents, and helping maintain water supplies.

You will bring a valid driving licence and relevant water industry experience, with responsibilities including pressure management support, meter exchanges, and high-consequence valve checks while delivering

Qualifications

• Have you gained experience in a similar role within the water industry?
• Do you have experience with valve operations and water quality sampling?
• Do you hold a current driving licence? You will need to hold one to be considered for this role.

Responsibilities

• Carry out operational tasks and resolve customer issues to protect water supplies.
• Complete network valve activities with minimal disruption to supplies.
• Support pressure management maintenance and install assets at new pressure managed sites.
• Install zonal meters and district meters, including exchanges.
• Perform high-consequence valve checks on trunk mains and other valves.
• Respond to reactive requests from network colleagues and provide on-call support.

Skills

Driving licence

Water industry experience

Valve operations

Water quality sampling

Job description

We are looking for a Service Technician for our client based in North East London.

Details: We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.

You’ll be joining our Network Operations Team as a Water Network Operative, working across both London and the Thames Valley on our Thames Water Lot 3 contract. Well need you to provide excellent customer service by carrying out operational tasks, resolving customer issues, and completing network valve activities with minimal disruption to water supplies.

You’ll be supporting teams with pressure management maintenance and assisting with the installation of assets for new pressure managed sites along with installing zonal meters and district meters, including carrying out exchanges, while also supporting network upgrade schemes as they arise.

You’ll be completing high consequence valve checks on trunk mains and other high impact network valves to help maintain network resilience.

Well need you to respond to reactive requests from network colleagues whenever possible, providing support during urgent or unplanned situations as they occur.

For this role your base location will be our Hackney depot, however during your shift youll be required to to attend various sites within our Thames Water network. This is a night sift role where youd be working Sunday - Thursday, 9 hour shifts, 45 hours per week.

What you’ll bring?

• Do you hold a current driving licence? You will need to hold one to be considered for this role.
• Have you gained experience in a similar role within the water industry?
• Do you have experience with valve operations and water quality sampling?

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include

• Contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers

• Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• 21 days plus bank holiday, rising to 25 days with service
• Opportunity for overtime
• Personal accident cover

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet

We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations

We’re together and as one team the whole is greater than the sum of the parts

We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.