At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to ensure critical power assets are maintained and ready for operations.
- Company: Thames Water, the UK's largest water and wastewater company.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, car allowance, generous leave, and health perks.
- Other info: Flexible location with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on UK infrastructure and customer outcomes.
- Qualifications: Experience in engineering management and contractor oversight required.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 68000 £ per year.
Power Resilience is critical to Thames Water's ability to provide safe, reliable services to millions of customers. We are expanding our Power Resilience capability to enhance how power is planned, maintained and improved across our operations. We are looking for talented individuals to join this growing team and help build a coordinated, data-led approach to managing Power Resilience across Thames Water.
The Maintenance Team Leader manages contractor delivery to meet safety, compliance and performance standards, ensuring critical standby power assets are maintained and tested effectively so they are ready to support operations during power disruptions.
As Maintenance Team Leader you will be responsible for overseeing maintenance performance across a diverse portfolio of critical assets, providing operational assurance through site audits and identifying opportunities to improve resilience processes and expectations across Thames Water. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a critical area of UK infrastructure and make a meaningful difference to customer outcomes and environmental protection.
Base location: Location can be flexible for both London or Thames Valley (e.g., Hampton, Beckton, Maple Lodge, Cirencester, Reading, Slough, Swindon & Oxford)
Working pattern or hours: 36 Hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Key responsibilities:
- Contract Management and Delivery Oversight: You will oversee contractor performance, ensuring all maintenance activities are delivered to agreed standards, timelines and budgets.
- Quality Assurance and Compliance: You will implement and monitor quality assurance processes and compliance across contracted works, manage performance reporting and ensure risks are identified, addressed and escalated where necessary.
- Stakeholder Engagement and Continuous Improvement: You will act as the primary interface between Thames Water supervisors and contractor organisations, ensuring effective information flow and timely issue resolution.
What you should bring to the role?
- Experience managing contractor delivery within engineering, mechanical or utilities environments.
- Experience overseeing planned work, managing budgets and ensuring compliance.
- Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and external contractors.
The essential criteria to help you succeed in this role is:
- In-depth knowledge of mechanical engineering and maintenance principles.
- Strong understanding of management/asset management and quality assurance.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Full UK Driving License.
- IT literacy, including maintenance and contract management systems.
What’s in it for you?
- Offering a salary between £55,000 to £68,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
- Car allowance of £4,500 per annum.
- Annual Leave: 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
- Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
- Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
- 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.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.
If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.
We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support.
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