What you’ll be doing
as the Leakage Optimisation Engineer
1. Achieve key operational and regulatory targets while setting the strategic direction of your area alongside the Regional Manager.
2. Recognised as a Subject Matter Expert in leakage detection and control within your region.
3. Provide coaching and mentorship to the Leakage Optimisation Analyst and support the training of other Thames Water colleagues.
4. Drive improvements of defined business processes and lead innovative new ways of working.
5. Take ownership of all Leakage-driven issues in your area to ensure a safe and reliable drinking water supply now and into the future.
6. Manage the accuracy and availability of data from our assets, so that critical business insights can be gained and acted upon.
7. Provide specialist technical support to the wider business in the management of unplanned emergency incidents. This includes out-of-hours coordinator responsibilities on a technical standby roster.
8. Create strategic initiatives for managing leakage in your area, accounting for population growth and the influence of climate change.
What you should bring to the role
9. Have previous water network experience to make an impact within the team and develop the ideas and processes.
10. Demonstrate excellent analytical skills and a good working knowledge of Excel.
11. Having experience with leakage or Hydraulics would be an advantage.
12. Excellent communication skills are needed to communicate with all levels of the organisation.
13. A degree educated or equivalent in Civil Engineering, Environmental Science, or a similar subject is highly desirable.
What’s in it for you?
14. Offering a salary up to £48,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
15. Annual Leave:26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
16. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
17. Pension: Maximum of 12% = 2x employee contribution.
18. Performance Related Pay Plan (PRPP): Max (of salary) = 10%. On Target (of salary) = 5%.
19. 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.