E&m Ms Electrical Craftsman

Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.

Most people don’t think too much about how clean water reaches their taps. Or what happens to their wastewater. But Scottish Water does. In fact, it’s all we think about.

Want to join us? As an Electrical Craftsperson, you’ll be on the front lines of making sure Scotland’s water is totally, dependably pure.

Working as part of the Electrical / Mechanical reactive maintenance team you will contribute to the delivery of an effective Proactive and Customer Driven service to Water and Wastewater treatment plants and pumping stations. You will start from home, direct to site providing a field based multi-skilled electrical service ensuring the safe and effective operation of all plant and equipment.

This role will be based in Edinburgh/Borders, covering the Edinburgh/Lothians and Borders region, but will also include on occasion supporting other teams/areas within the wider E&M delivery. A clean driving License is essential to the role. The role will also require participation in an out of hours 24/7 Stand-By Rota for which a supplement is paid.

The key accountabilities of the role will be:
- To repair, maintain, install and carry out effective repairs and maintenance for the Water, Wastewater 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, lighting, 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/18th Edition trained.
- All applicants to have served a full apprenticeship
- HNC or NC in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.

Desirable Knowledge & Behaviours- You will be confident, personable and have excellent communication, organisational and customer service skills. In addition, you will be capable of managing complex situations, work effectively as part of a team and have proficient IT skills.- In this role you will communicate with internal and external customers in regards 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 and PPE will be provided to enable you to carry out the role.- You will 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.- You are 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.- You will be a strong team player, who can work well with others to achieve common goals and have a willingness to learn from others

What you’ll get

The salary range for this position is £24,741 - £35,566 depending on experience.

You can also expect- 38 days of holiday per year (including public holidays) 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- Access to "SW Splash", saving you money on holidays, bills and shopping- Excellent family friendly policies around Adoption, Maternity, Parental Leave, and Flexible Working

For further information please contact;

Jim Lowe on 07875879450

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