Water Leakage Engineer

Job Opportunity: Water Leakage Engineer

RPS Group is seeking an experienced Water Leakage Engineer to join our Water Operations Division in Wales. As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in delivering leakage reduction and ensuring the delivery of regulatory targets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess, diagnose, and determine the most appropriate solution to reduce leakage and support the delivery of regulatory targets.
• Ensure Health and Safety is maintained while working in all weather conditions, including night work.
• Achieve KPI targets and deliver leakage detection/reduction within DMA's.
• Train and mentor assistant leakage technicians.
• Assume responsibility for general admin tasks, including electronic timesheets submissions, weekly vehicle checks, and defect reporting.
• Form and maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues, contractors, and clients.

Requirements:

• Any prior experience working in a similar role is useful, but we will train you in water network hydraulics, leakage detection techniques, monitoring/reporting of leakage levels, and other issues associated with the clean water industry.
• You will want to learn and build a knowledge of utility tracing, noise logging, and step-testing planning/operation to allow you to build your experience of leakage monitoring, pressure/flow, and flow data capture techniques and methods.
• Able to work well under pressure and to conflicting deadlines while maintaining attention to detail and high levels of standards.
• Team player who wants to solve problems within defined procedures and is flexible, co-operative, and willing to learn new methods.
• Great written and verbal communication skills.
• Customer-focused and able to build and maintain great working relationships.
• Able to work quickly and accurately report on findings.
• Full UK driving or Irish Driving Licence.

What's in it for you?

We support our people to 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 put you in the driving seat of your career, and you'll be supported as far as you want to go.

RPS Group, a Tetra Tech company

Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, in January 2023, RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With over 28,000 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.