Instrument Technician

Maintenance and Calibration Instrument Technician vacancies available.

Salary & Benefits: £32,088 - £40,110 depending on experience + company van + 25 days holiday + 1 wellbeing day + bank holidays.

Locations: North East / South Yorkshire (York, Malton, Hull, Scarborough, Thirsk, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham, Doncaster) with regular, regional travel.

Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance and Calibration Technician to join the North East or South Asset Delivery team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers.

What we do: We ensure that over 5.4 million people living in the region can rely on our services, have clean and safe drinking water, and that their wastewater is taken away. We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire's water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year.

Purpose of the role: Complete repairs, maintenance, calibration and certification of Yorkshire Waters Instrumentation assets across water and wastewater treatment and pumping installations in line with current KPIs and quality management procedures. Mobile working as part of a Maintenance Team to deliver Planned & Reactive maintenance.

Key Accountabilities:

• Drive excellent Health and Safety behaviours in relation to policy and standards.
• Identify improvements in Health and Safety and process across any areas that have an impact on your role and the role of others.
• Fully compliant with Management of change processes currently in place and work in accordance with Yorkshire Water maintenance task lists, Safe Working Procedures and Safe Systems of work.
• Take responsibility for your own PPE, vehicle & other tools and equipment, ensuring they are in good condition & reporting any defects.
• Work as part of a team to deliver excellent performance by understanding how your individual performance links into achieving the team’s wider objectives.
• Maintain, fault find and repair all of Yorkshire Waters Instrumentation equipment to the Company standards within the role’s area of responsibility.
• Understand how your actions impact on the company’s water quality obligations.
• Assist in the development and training of apprentices and other less experienced craft and technicians.
• Professionally develop in line with the progression plan for the role, with training and support given to do so.

As a Maintenance and Calibration Technician, it is mandatory that you can demonstrate experience and knowledge in:

• Safe isolation to the current IET regulations.
• Maintenance of instrumentation (pressure, level, temperature, analytical instrumentation & flow monitoring systems).
• IT literate e.g. MS office.
• Ability to produce maintenance reports.

Essential skills and qualifications:

• A recognised Electrical Apprenticeship and/or a City & Guilds / ONC / BTEC / NVQ / HNC / HND or equivalent in Instrumentation/Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
• Be able to work in Confined Spaces (Training can be provided).
• Working experience of fault finding and installation of Pressure/Level/Flow/Temperature instrumentation.
• Experience in an industrial asset maintenance environment.
• Good team building and communication skills.
• Experience of supporting and embedding change.
• Must possess a full clean UK driving licence.

Desirable skills & qualifications:

• IET 18th Edition Wiring Regulations City and Guilds 2382.
• CompEx 1 - 4.
• Experience of maintaining, calibration, and certification of analytical instrumentation.
• Experience of maintaining, calibration, and certification of flow monitoring equipment.
• Fault finding on 4 to 20 mA loops.
• Working within ATEX standards.

If you’re an experienced Maintenance and Calibration Technician and want to help us deliver exceptional service for our customers whilst protecting the environment, then apply today to find out what a career with Yorkshire Water can offer for you.

We are proud to serve the Yorkshire region and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply.

If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third Party Company, prior to commencing employment.

Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.