We currently have a great opportunity for an experienced Electrical Maintenance Technician to join our Wastewater Operations Team in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an electrical maintenance technician to join a close-knit team which varies in age and ability, all performing at a high level.
This role offers great learning potential with the ability to cross-skill into other disciplines.
What you'll be doing as an Electrical Technician
As the successful candidate, your role will be to ensure that all equipment at our waste treatment works is running safely and efficiently using proactive and reactive maintenance methods.
1. Proactively and reactively maintain the electrical assets onsite.
2. Investigating plant failures and carrying out repairs as quickly and efficiently as possible to avoid interruptions to the process. This may involve investigating and diagnosing complex faults and carrying out repairs during incidents.
3. Carrying out service and replacement of assets: Pump motors, electrical circuitry components, contactors, overloads, slip ring assemblies, telemetry outstations, variable speed drives and motor control circuits.
4. Supporting the local maintenance teams, carrying out planned and breakdown maintenance activities on electromechanical wastewater assets.
5. Provided technical advice to the wider team, referred to up-to-date technical knowledge, and provided training or support for technical trainees if required.
6. Undertake fault diagnostics and resolve issues promptly.
7. Interpret and update Electrical drawings.
Base location would be either Witney (OX28 5JH) or Cirencester. (GL7 6DA)
38 hours a week, Monday to Friday, plus inclusion on a standby rota.
You should be a time-served apprentice with significant experience in electrical systems or with NVQ or C&G level 3 in electrical engineering.
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:
8. You should be a time-served apprentice with significant experience in mechanical/electrical systems or with NVQ or C&G level 3 in electrical engineering.
9. 18th Edition preferred but training can be given.
10. A problem solver, able to identify potential issues and implement solutions, or escalating if required.
11. An excellent communicator, providing technical expertise to Internal and External staff and contractors.
12. Resilient, adapting to the pressures of work and working in a constantly changing environment.
13. Ability to work with minimum supervision, under own initiative to design and standards.
14. Knowledge and awareness of Health and Safety issues relevant to the industry.
15. Team player who can work in many different teams, showing respect for others, providing helpful feedback and supporting the development of others.
16. Full UK driving licence
What’s in it for you?
17. Offering a salary up to £42,000 per annum depending on skills and experience
18. Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution
19. Annual Leave: 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
20. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
21. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
22. Generous Paternity Leave, including 4 weeks paid and an optional 2 weeks unpaid
23. Enhanced Maternity Leave, 26 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay!
24. 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