Electrical Technician (Wastewater Plant Maintenance) in Isleworth

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Electrical Technician to join our Maintenance team in our Wastewater Division based out of our Mogden STW. As a successful candidate, you will use your electrical knowledge and experience to inspect, maintain, fault diagnose, test, install, modify or repair mechanical plant and associated electrical equipment in a safe, efficient, timely and effective manner with minimum supervision, ensuring that all of our sites remain operational for the benefit of our customers. This is an excellent opportunity to make a real difference to Thames Water's environmental impact, actively helping to reduce pollution from our sites.

What you’ll be doing as the Electrical Technician:

• Ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself, colleagues, contractors, and visitors by complying with the Health and Safety at work regulations and Thames Water’s Health and Safety guidelines.
• Working on drives, various pumps, 3-phase motors, starters and controls, electronic control systems such as VSD, automatic valves, flow, level and pressure measurement, programmable logic controllers, variable speed drives and controls.
• Undertaking both reactive and planned maintenance, responding to alarms and fault finding to identify issues, fixing these or escalating as necessary.
• Recording work and asset information to improve business performance, identifying possible future risks and recommending changes.
• Providing specialist technical advice where appropriate, along with coaching, training and developing staff under supervision, including the apprenticeship programme.
• Delivering excellent customer experience and positively contributing to overall customer satisfaction.
• Interacting with all customers (internal & external) in a timely, professional, efficient, respectful and polite manner.

What you should bring to the role:

• A time-served apprentice with significant experience in electrical systems or with NVQ or C&G level 3 in electrical engineering. 18th Edition preferred but training can be given.
• A problem solver, able to identify potential issues and implement solutions or escalate if required.
• An excellent communicator, providing technical expertise to internal and external staff and contractors.
• Resilient, adapting to the pressures of work and working in a constantly changing environment.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision, under own initiative to design and standards.
• Knowledge and awareness of Health and Safety issues relevant to the industry.
• A team player who can work in many different teams, showing respect for others, providing helpful feedback and supporting the development of others.
• Full UK driving licence.

Benefits:

• Salary up to £42,000 per annum depending on skills and experience.
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Annual Leave: 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with length of service (plus bank holidays).
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Generous Paternity Leave, including 4 weeks paid and an optional 2 weeks unpaid.
• Enhanced Maternity Leave, 26 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay.
• Access to benefits to help you take care of your 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.

Base Location – Mogden – Isleworth – TW7 7LW. 38 hours per week Monday-Friday. 7:30 am - 3:36 pm plus Standby rota payments & overtime opportunities can increase earning potential by up to a further £8,000-£10,000 per annum upon completion of essential company training. All PPE, tools plus the provision of a van when on duty and on call.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.