Electrical Technician

**Who are we?**
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km’s of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential serviceand have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
**What is the purpose of the Single Skilled Technician - Electrical role**?
The purpose of this role will be to inspect, maintain, fault diagnose, test, install, modify or repair appropriate electrical equipment, in a safe, efficient, timely, and effective manner.
**What makes this role unique?**
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high performing Pumping Team in the Thames Valley region. This role will primarily be situated within the Reading/Oxford/Swindon/Aylesbury areas but may be required to cover other areas within the Thames Valley catchment.Your daily tasks will be essential for ensuring that our Sewage Pumping Stations are operating as desired, and that information is fed back to the internal system so that sites can be monitored remotely.
Accordingly, you will be stepping into a role of great responsibility, and you will be expected to embrace this. Your working environment will be fast-paced and varied with plenty of opportunities for training and development in areas that you find interesting.
**What will this role involve?**:

- Undertaking planned maintenance on various sites
- Responding to reactive alarms
- Installing and removing pumps
- Working and fault finding on a range of control panels and starters
- Undertake electrical installations to current standards and regulations
- Asset Improvement and site optimisation work
- Report safety observations to improve the H&S of our sites
- Comply with Thames Water policies, values, and behaviours
- Working at height and in confined spaces
- Lone working
- Possible inclusion on a 1 in 6 standby / call out

**What skills are we looking for?**:

- Experience working on 3 phase electrical systems and electrical control panels
- City and Guilds test and inspection
- NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Installation, maintenance and commissioning
- 18th Edition wiring Regulations
- Physical fit
Please note: Due to the nature of this role, you must hold a full, UK driving license.
**Thames Water information & Salary**
These L8 roles will cover the Thames Valley Pumping region.
We are offering a salary of up to £35,000 depending on experience and qualifications.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provideoptions around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall DiversityChampion and Disability Confident Leader and we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
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