Multi-skilled Electrical Craftsperson

Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.

Scottish Water is recruiting an experienced & qualified Multi-Skilled Electrical Craftsperson based in the Skye & Lochalsh area.

About the Role

The role holder will start from home and provide a field based multi-skilled electrical service ensuring the safe and effective operation of all plant and equipment.

This role will be primarily based in Skye & Lochalsh but will support other areas within the wider Ness E&M team.

The key Accountabilities of the Role will beTo repair, maintain, install and carry out effective repairs and maintenance for the Water, Waste Water and Networks Assets using core electrical craft skills and general mechanical craft skills for predominately internal and occasional external customers. Resolving technical problems associated with activities and ensuring solutions are implemented.- To liaise with the workflow team to plan and co-ordinate resources. Ensuring an effective and cost-efficient response to any incidents, reactive or planned work.- To ensure the personal safety of self and others, including undertaking Risk Assessments and the subsequent selection of appropriate equipment and safe working practices.- To undertake a range of electrical craft skills including, good experience with working on 3phase & single-phase equipment, which include fault finding and diagnosis, overload setting, maintenance to motors, motor starters, generators, variable speed drives, instrumentation and the calibration of process equipment, resetting of automation equipment, and variable speed drive parameter setting.- To undertake a range of general mechanical craft skills, which may include some maintenance or removal of pumps, pump component replacements, engines, valves, gearboxes, specialist electrical interface hydraulics and pneumatics, fitting, pipe disconnections, and mechanical devices (such as bearing’s couplings, brakes and safety guards)

Essential for this Role- For this role you must be prepared to work a standby rota.- A full driving licence is required.- Electrical applicants to be 17th or 18th Edition trained.- All applicants to have served a full apprenticeship- HNC or NC in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience

Desirable Knowledge & Behaviours-
- In this role you will communicate with internal and external customers in regard to work being carried out on site. Giving progress reports where necessary and always ensuring our customers get excellent service.- This role is primarily field based and contains an element of lone working. Full training & PPE will be provided to enable you to carry out the role.Have experience or an understanding of working within a strong Health & Safety culture to ensure that all Health and Safety policies and procedures are adhered to.- Be a quick learner, with the ability to use computer systems and on-line learning modules which are essential to the role.- The ability to plan and prioritise your work, whilst maintaining flexibility to accommodate changing priorities. Experience or an understanding of working within a strong Health & Safety culture to ensure that all Health and Safety policies and procedures are adhered to.- Be a strong team player, who can work well with others to achieve common goals and have a willingness to learn from others.

Salary Range: £24,741- £35,566

You can also expect:
- 38 days of holiday per year (pro rata) with the option to buy 5 more- Eligibility to join the defined benefit, contributory pension scheme- Annual company bonus- Life assurance scheme- Paid time off for community volunteering- Opportunities to be involved in sports, social and fundraising activities- Access to "SW Splash", saving you money on holidays, bills and shopping- Excellent family friendly policies around Adoption, Maternity, Parental Leave, and Flexible Working

Closing Date - 29th January 2023

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Scottish Water is one of the UK's leading water companies, the quality of drinking water and satisfaction with the service we provide our customers has never been higher - but we want to be even better - and you could help play an important part

We take employee engagement very seriously and have an inclusive and collaborative work environment where we respect people’s differences. We are committed to creating an engaging environment and a positive experience for our employees.

We were recently recognised as a Top 10 Flexible Employer in Scotland at the Flexibility Works Awards 2021 and by The Times as a Top 50 Employer for Women in 2019.

In 2019 we also won the Age Inclusive Award at The Herald and GenAnalytics Diversity Awards and were winners of the Best Public Sector Employer at the Family Friendly Working Scotland Awards 2020.

We have Carers Positive Exemplary Status and were Silver Award 2019 & Gold Award winners 2020 of the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).

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