What you’ll be doing
as an Electrical & Mechanical Engineer
Working within the maintenance team, you will follow robust planned maintenance, getting involved in minor installation projects, electrical fault finding and emergency breakdown repairs to ensure our plant operates all year round.
1. Ensuring the health, safety and well-being 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, fixing these or escalating, planned maintenance of plant and equipment daily, 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 an excellent customer experience and positively contributing to overall customer satisfaction. Interacting with all of our customers (internal & external) in a timely, professional, efficient, respectful and polite manner.
What should you bring to the role?
6. 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.
7. A problem solver, able to identify potential issues and implement solutions, or escalate if required.
8. An excellent communicator, providing technical expertise to Internal and External staff and contractors.
9. Resilient, adapting to the pressures of work and working in a constantly changing environment.
10. Ability to work with minimum supervision, under own initiative to design and standards.
11. Knowledge and awareness of Health and Safety issues relevant to the industry.
12. Team player who can work in many different teams, showing respect for others, providing helpful feedback and supporting the development of others.
13. Full UK driving licence.
What’s in it for you?
14. Offering a salary up to £45,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience plus a company van, tools, and PPE.
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.