Instrumentation Field Service Engineer

United Utilities’ (UU) purpose is to deliver great water for a stronger, greener and healthier North West of England. We are committed to providing our services in a way that respects the environment, supports the economy, and benefits society. We value diversity, inclusion and innovation in our workplace, and we foster a culture where our people can grow, excel, and be themselves. We uphold our ethics, values and business model to fulfil our mission and, by setting clear goals and objectives, we create sustainable long-term value for our colleagues, customers and communities.

The role involves:

• A generous annual leave package of 26 days, which increases to 30 days after four years of service (increases one day per year), in addition to 8 bank holidays.
• A competitive pension scheme with up to 14% employer contribution, 21% combined, and life cover.
• Up to 7.5% performance-related bonus scheme, as well as recognition awards for outstanding achievements.
• A comprehensive healthcare plan through our company-funded scheme.
• MyGymDiscounts - gym and wellness benefit that offers up to 25% off on gym memberships and digital fitness subscriptions.
• Best Doctors, Salary Finance, Wealth at Work courses, deals and discounts.
• EVolve Car Scheme, Employee Assistance Plan, mental health first aiders, enhanced parental leave schemes.

You will be responsible for Instrumentation maintenance and technical support to the Water Production team to repair and maintain Water assets. You will be working in a fast-paced modern maintenance environment, providing proactive, planned and reactive support in all aspects of your field of expertise, to ensure compliance with company, statutory and regulatory requirements while minimising environmental impact.

Key accountabilities include:

• Implementing an efficient Instrumentation maintenance and installation service.
• Analysing faults, rectifying and ensuring correct operation of Instrumentation and systems-based equipment.
• Performing planned and proactive maintenance activities.
• Ensuring compliance with all Health & Safety regulations and internal company policies.
• Maintaining required financial control of pre-defined budgets.
• Providing reliable, accurate and complete asset performance and repair information.
• Analysing and recommending solutions to recurring maintenance problems.
• Ensuring that throughout your career the required skills, competence and recency in all relevant subject matter are maintained.

Skills and Experience required:

• The ability to work in a team but also alone, be resilient, self-motivated, with strong problem-solving skills and possess the required technical competence.
• Able and willing to diversify into specialised areas of maintenance, such as chlorine gas systems and high voltage installations.
• Diagnostic, organisational, planning, communication and computer skills.
• Experience of PLC, HMI and SCADA systems and associated networks to perform fault diagnostics, assist with disaster recovery and small system modifications.

Qualifications:

• Time served apprentice or equivalent.
• Academic qualifications ideally to HNC or minimum ONC equivalent in a relevant technical area of Instrumentation Maintenance.

We are currently seeking a skilled Instrumentation Engineer to join our team, with a clear and supported pathway to develop electrical engineering capabilities. This role is offered initially as a single-skilled position, with the opportunity to upskill into a flexi-skilled role through our in-house technical training programme. Upon successful completion of training and competency sign-off in the secondary discipline, the role will transition to a flexi-skilled position. The starting salary for this role is £38,462, with progression to £44,320 once fully trained and signed off in the secondary skill. This is an excellent opportunity for career development within a supportive and forward-thinking engineering environment.

We rely on every employee to ensure our customers receive the best possible service, day in, day out. In return, we ensure that you will be well rewarded for your efforts, from an excellent salary through to development opportunities that will really kick start a thriving career here at UU.