Overview
Join to apply for the Clean Water Trainer role at RPS, based at our St Mellon's Cardiff office. You would report to the Regional Managers and be responsible for the RQF completion, training and mentoring of all leakage staff, ensuring the use of best practice leakage methods and helping deliver leakage reduction and performance within UK/Ireland. Based in Wales, you will deliver training to leakage staff, with about 40% of your time dedicated to delivering RQF across all profit centres and contracts. The role will require flexibility and working away from home to ensure delivery.
About The Team
The RPS Asset, Surveying, and Inspection (AS&I) team provides industry leading services to the UK Water Industry and our employees are involved in services supporting Water Networks, Drainage, Surveying, Leakage Consultancy, Water Resources and Efficiency. The team analyse complex data and provide pragmatic solutions. This includes reducing water leakage and preventing flooding and pollution in local communities. Our Welsh Water’s asset management and delivery professionals, develop and deliver industry leading solutions in flooding, pollution, water quality and leakage. Our teams find and repair leaks on the network to minimise water wastage, which is good for Welsh Water customers and the environment.
About You
As a key member of the AS&I business, your role as Clean Water Trainer is critical to our strategic priorities – to deliver great work for our clients by providing excellent customer service and executing complex operational tasks. Whether you are just starting out or taking the next step in your career, this position provides an opportunity for you to progress with RPS. You will need to work flexibly, weekends, evenings and overtime if required. Be willing to travel to different locations. It is essential that you enjoy working outdoors, as come rain or shine, you will mostly be outside.
Your Responsibilities
* Ensuring that Health and Safety is maintained, upholding RPS Company Policies at all times.
* Undertaking registration activities of all RQF staff, providing starter packs/folders and support completion of RQF levels 2 for all staff.
* Completing and assessing all leakage staff within the structure of each profit centre.
* Undertaking training and completing detailed individual training matrix/plans.
* Ensuring the regional training matrix is updated and reported as per the clients/RPS expectations.
* Assessing and ensuring good leakage practise is always adhered to and reporting.
* Work closely with under achieving staff, to ensure targets are achieved and maintained.
* Ensuring training targets are achieved and records updated.
* Providing weekly training trackers on all leakage training and developing training plans for each Technician/Engineer, delivering, and presenting information using PowerPoint.
* Attending client meetings when required.
* Trialling new equipment and producing detailed reports.
* Forming and maintaining excellent working relationships with colleagues, other contractors, and clients.
Skills, Knowledge, And Experience
* Good understanding and demonstrable working knowledge of computer software packages (Microsoft, GIS, and specific technical programs etc.).
* A track record of training and classroom delivery.
* Ability to interpret and understand water network schematics and plans to a high standard.
* A very good all-round knowledge of Water Network Hydraulics, Leakage Detection Techniques, Monitoring and reporting of Leakage Levels and other issues associated with the Clean Water Industry.
* Excellent working knowledge of leakage delivery.
* Ability to quickly learn new theories, techniques and working methods associated with duties and tasks and deliver to leakage staff.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable effective communication with internal and external colleagues, other technical specialists, consultants, and senior internal and external managers.
* Well organised with the ability to manage own workload and work to allocated deadlines.
* Ability to work well under pressure and to conflicting deadlines whilst maintaining attention to detail and high levels of standards.
* Enjoys working as a team and has a flexible ‘can do’ attitude, possessing a co-operative attitude to working and giving and receiving help.
* Flexibility to work away on various projects.
* Background experience in training/teaching, training qualifications.
Qualifications
* Train the trainer qualification or equivalent.
* Demonstrable experience of success in a similar environment.
* Computer literacy on Microsoft 360 Suite and Work Management Systems and applications.
* IOSH Managing Safely or similar.
* RQF Qualifications.
* Full UK driving license.
What’s in it for you?
A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go. We encourage and value different ideas, perspectives, and styles of thinking. We need a mix of experiences and skills to develop the most innovative ideas. We respect one another and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. You’ll be joining a diverse community and a company that puts its people first and prioritises their well-being. A career here is far from ordinary. Here you’re not a number, you are part of the solution.
Why RPS?
We’re a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly, empowering our people to create a work-life balance that’s right for them. We also understand the importance of collaboration and social connection in the office environment. With agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we trust our people to find the right balance to meet client needs – this is a workplace that works for you.
About RPS, a Tetra Tech Company
RPS, part of Tetra Tech since January 2023, is a global firm that defines, designs, and manages projects in urbanisation, natural resources, and sustainability. As part of Tetra Tech’s 28,000-strong team across 550 offices in over 120 countries, we deliver solutions that create lasting value in an increasingly urbanised and resource-scarce world. By leveraging our global expertise, we enable our clients to develop winning solutions for their clients and communities.
As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to provide market-leading development and project opportunities for our people, supporting their growth while addressing the challenges that matter. Our people drive our success, and this is where you come to build a career.
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