What you’ll be doing
as the Mechanical & Electrical Technician
1. Ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself, colleagues, contractors, and visitors is always my top priority by always displaying the correct behaviours by complying with the Health and Safety at work regulations and Thames Water’s Health and Safety guidelines.
2. Undertaking both reactive and planned maintenance, responding to alarms and fault finding to identify issues, fix these or escalate, planned maintenance of plant and equipment on a daily basis, installing new plant and equipment as required in line with current Standards and Regulations.
3. Record work and asset information to improve business performance along with identifying possible future risks and recommending changes in the course of your day-to-day work and to raise these for resolution as required.
4. Provide specialist technical advice where appropriate with up-to-date technical knowledge along with coaching, training and developing staff under their supervision, including the apprenticeship programme.
5. delivering excellent customer experience and positively contribute to overall customer satisfaction. Interacting with all of our customers (internal & external) in a timely, professional, efficient, respect and polite manner.
Base Location: Farnham STW – Monkton Lane, GU9 9ND.
Working Pattern: 38 Hours, Monday to Friday, 7:30-3:36 PM. Plus, standby rota payments & Overtime opportunities can increase this earning potential by up to a further amount.
All PPE, Tools, Fuel Card and Provisional use of a company Van.
You should be a time-served apprentice with significant experience in mechanical & electrical systems or with NVQ or C&G level 3 in mechanical & electrical engineering.
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:
6. You should be a time-served apprentice with significant experience in electrical systems working in a “true multi-skilled” capacity.
7. Ideally, you will have been upskilled with a mechanical qualification to allow inspecting, maintaining, fault diagnosis, testing, installing, modifying or repairing mechanical and electrical plant equipment safely and efficiently.
8. For individuals with mechanical or electrical experience only, we will look to develop the right people to dual-skilled status.
9. Knowledge and awareness of health and safety issues are crucial.
10. The work will require physical fitness, as you will work in confined spaces with the successful completion of the appropriate training.
11. A valid driving license is essential, and all necessary equipment, such as the vehicle and tools, is provided.
What’s in it for you?
12. Competitive salary up to £45,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
13. Standby rota payments & Overtime opportunities can increase this earning potential by up to a further £8,000-£10,000 per annum upon completion of essential company training.
14. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
15. Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
16. Annual Leave: 24 days holiday per year, increasing to 28 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
17. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
18. Generous Paternity Leave, including 4 weeks paid and an optional 2 weeks unpaid.
19. Enhanced Maternity Leave, 26 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay!
20. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you 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.