Workshop Technician

Workshop Technician

RPS has an opening for a Workshop Technician to join the Maintenance Hub as part of their Wastewater team. Based on site at Clevedon, Bristol, this is a permanent role working Monday to Friday (typically 40 hrs per week). The salary for this role starts at £25,046 per annum (depending on experience) plus benefits of 20 days holiday and 8 additional bank holidays.

We're RPS, our projects are all around you. We define, design, and manage projects that create shared value in a complex, urbanising, and resource-scarce world. Our people are our success. We need people who share our passion for solving the problems that matter. And where you'll be supported every step of the way. Here is where you come to build a career.

What you'll be doing

Following in-house training, the successful applicant will be required to:

·Calibrate, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair surveying instruments

·Measure and adjust voltages to specified values to determine the operational accuracy of instruments

·Adjust, repair, or replace electronic component parts to correct defects and to ensure conformance and calibration to manufacturers' specifications; may involve some soldering

·Cleaning parts, using environmentally safe cleaning solutions, air hoses, and cloths

·Marking and tagging equipment to ensure stock inventory can be tracked and identified, and updating our asset database

·Booking equipment in/out as and when required for contracts

·Maintenance Hub support to field teams regarding the operation of equipment/faults and other general tasks

Who we're looking for

·Basic Electrical knowledge; with some basic soldering experience

·Team player, who enjoys working as part of a team with a can-do attitude

·Commitment to working safely with good health and safety awareness

·Good communication skills

·Computer literacy, including the use of Microsoft Word and Excel

·Physically able to undertake all duties required (lifting/carrying survey equipment);

·A full UK clean driving license is preferable

What's in it for you

We support our people to innovate, collaborate and build meaningful careers. Here you'll find true support and encouragement. We're an accredited training provider and we support learning and development for everyone. A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you'll be supported as far as you want to go.

Why RPS?
We're a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly, empowering our people to create a work-life balance that's right for them. We also understand the importance of collaboration and social connection in the office and field environments.

RPS, A Tetra Tech company:
Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023, RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With 27,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world's most complex problems.

About RPS Water Consultancy:
It's an exciting time to be working for our UK Water business as the workload in the water market takes off. With a broad portfolio of long-term framework agreements in place, we are ideally placed to help our clients deliver on the challenges facing them over the coming years - whether that is reducing leakage, improving water quality, or improving the environment and levels of service to their customers.

Our Water business employs around 1000 highly skilled and motivated people working on projects for all of the water and sewerage companies across the UK, and most of the water-only companies. We deliver a full range of end-to-end water and wastewater services including data collection and analytics; modelling and risk analysis/optimisation; data visualisation and mapping; artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions; feasibility studies; outline and detailed design of capital solutions; and development of optimised, risk-based, operational interventions.

Come and join our team and truly make a difference in the future of water #LI-JP1

Our commitment to Diversityand Inclusion
Mindful that a truly inclusiveorganization must make appropriate use of talent on a global basis and withoutunnecessary barriers, we are committed to embedding diversity and inclusionprinciples in all People processes in order to be as diverse as the communitiesand clients we work with, thereby securing, developing, and retaining the bestavailable talent for the company's future.

Our approach to Diversityand inclusion
Our people live our purpose,deliver our promise, and demonstrate our behaviours every day. Our behavioursdefine who we are. Developed by our people, they underpin everything that wedo. They create the memorable experiences we are known for and make RPS a greatplace to do great work.
'Stronger Together' is one ofour five core behaviours and it is inherent in creating an inclusive workplace:
'We are respectful,acknowledge diversity, and recognise the potential and contribution ofeveryone. We bring out the best in one another, always assuming best intent.People who learn and grow thrive in our business, sharing in our success.'

Recruitment Agencies
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