Field Technician Bedford, Bedfordshire Posted 1 day ago

Location: Bedford (must be within 20mins of travel to this location)

Salary: £30,534 – depending on skills and experience

+ standby payments + business use of company van

We offer a wide range of benefits including private health care, virtual GP service for you and your household, and a generous pension scheme – we double-match your contributions, up to 6%, giving you an 18% combined contribution.

Permanent, 37 hours, Full Time, with flexibility for part-time working.

At Anglian Water, we stand out as a frontrunner in providing water and water recycling services in the UK, setting the industry standard for quality and customer service. Our dedicated team, comprised of skilled professionals, plays a crucial role in delivering key services. We take pride in collecting and treating water, ensuring its return to the environment through rivers and coastal outlets.

Join our team as a Field Technician in Water Recycling Services, where you'll play a vital role in safeguarding the environment, public health and maintaining critical infrastructure. You’ll tackle issues in our network including blockages, odours, flooding and incidents. You’ll deliver exceptional service levels to our customers while adhering to environmental regulatory standards.

Your duties will include:

• Operating a single person, high pressure water jetting unit which you will be trained in as well as specific CCTV equipment - helping to identify and promote repair work for any problems found on our sewerage network.
• Taking ownership for investigating and offering first time resolutions for sewerage issues encountered by our customers.
• Responding to incidents, and completing planned maintenance work.
• Accurately collating and recording all feedback from site through our IT systems.
• Predominately lone working, engaging with both our internal and external customers on a daily basis.
• Experience or willingness to work outside in all weathers, hands on/manual experience is beneficial.
• Basic IT skills.
• Ability to work autonomously as well using your own initiative.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Full driving license - having a 4.5 tonne license would be advantageous as the role will eventually require this (training will be provided if needed).
• In this role you must be able to work within a confined space, and at height without restrictions.

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic.

We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment.

To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position.

If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK.

Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.