Craftsperson - Workshops

**Salary**: £35,258

**Craftsperson - Workshops**

**Job details**

**Salary**: £35,258

**Business Area**:Operations

**Location**:Newport

**Contract Type**:Permanent (Full Time)

**Working hours/pattern**:7.75 hours per day, 38.75 hours per week Monday to Friday between our core working hours 7.30am - 5.30pm. There is also a requirement to work various shift patterns where required which includes weekend and evening work, and participation in a 24/7 standby rota

**Who are we?**

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.

**What we’re looking for?**

We are looking for a Workshops Craftsperson to carry out the maintenance, inspection and modification of our plant and equipment associated with our operational departments. You’ll also provide technical support and control the supply and return of portable plant.

**We’ll trust you to**:

- Carry out all work on Portable Equipment safely and cost effectively, keeping up to date with current technical and industry standards and future developments which may be of an individual specialist nature, as a team leader or as a co-ordinator of a number of teams/ individuals.
- Liaise with third party suppliers on technical matters relating to Portable equipment
- Assist with all new equipment, including recording stock levels, processing equipment requests and logging the shipment of equipment across WWU.
- Carry out maintenance, modification, repair and calibration work in accordance with appropriate policies, procedures and statutory requirements to ensure optimum technical performance and reliability of equipment
- Undertake in-house LOLER inspections on all WWU lifting equipment in our depots or workshop locations across Wales & the South West of England
- Complete any in sourced tasks from other departments i.e fabrication / welding work. Flexible attitude to complete this work in any of our workshop or depots locations across Wales or the South West of England, or onsite at geographically dispersed locations, e.g. District governors & PRS’.

**You’ll need to have**:

- Previous relevant experience
- BTec National certificate / NVQ level 3 or equivalent
- Full valid driving licence
- Be willing to participate in a 24/7 call-out rota.

We would also love to hear about anything else you feel you could add or bring to the role

**What’s in it for you?**
- A competitive salary starting at £35,258
- A structured pay & competency framework which rewards skills, competence and enables development and career progression
- Additional earnings through the standby rota plus overtime and additional work available
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
- 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
- “Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
- Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
- Enhanced pay for parental leave
- Retail discounts and cashback scheme
- Annual salary review
- An opportunity to earn a monthly bonus via our incentive scheme.
- Company Sick Pay
- In-house Occupational Health Team
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Comprehensive training

**The way we do things.**

Wales & West Utilities is a values-based business.

**Interested?**

If you think you’d make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you