Strategic Operations Unit Member

We have a great opportunity to join our team as a Unit Member carrying out repairs, maintenance, and improvement work on the strategic and trunk mains network in accordance with company policy, always ensuring, legislative compliance; quality and safety standards are adhered to.
**What will you be doing?**
As a Unit Member, you will play a key part of the overall strategic operations team, supporting the targets required to succeed as a function.
This is a field-based role, and you will operate all over the Bristol Water company area, accountable for high standards of workmanship delivered in a timely manner to company expectation.
**Day to day you’ll**
- Ensure Health and Safety is a priority on all jobs, and to advise all members of the team or any site visitors of any Health and Safety issues.
- Assist the Unit Leader in the ordering of correct materials to site (such as stone and concrete) and for the hire of equipment and delivery to site of that equipment (such as barriers, diggers, slews, welfare facilities) to minimise the duration and costs associated with a job.
- Ensure all defective equipment is highlighted to the Construction Manager.
- Ensure all works are carried out are to the specification and standards expected by Bristol Water, reporting any problems to the Construction Manager or Unit Leader.
- Carry out excavation work to locate and repair leaks, installations of new apparatus to the trunk mains network, repair and maintenance of the trunk mains network street works and traffic management, backfill and reinstatement.
- Prepare openings in the public highway or private land, or work in conjunction with the contract excavator driver, to prepare for work on the main pipes and fittings. Construct trench support systems as required and ensure necessary chlorination of pipes and fittings is carried out in accordance with company procedure.
- Assist in the preparation, cleaning and delivery of mobile bowsers tankers or static tanks for planned work, private hire or public relations events as requested.
- Assist as required in the deployment of emergency drinking water supplies in the event of major incidents affecting the company.
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What we’re looking for...*
To be successful in this role you’ll need to be hard working, committed and flexible in your approach to work. You’ll need to take pride in your work as it will be essential for maintaining drinking water for our customers. Ideally you will have the following licences and qualifications but if you don’t, we will provide the training needed to get you to the same level as our current Unit Leaders.
- Full UK driving licence Cat C and C+E
- Utility experience in excavation, backfill and reinstatement.
- Utility experience in the water industry/ Specifically in the repair and maintenance of large diameter mains
- Ideally, you'll already have or be up for doing the following training, Cat & Genny, COSHH, Kinetic Manual Handling, Asbestos Awareness, Abrasive Wheels, EUSR Water Hygiene, Streetworks - units 1-9, CPCS - Plant operations - Blue card, Confined space trained, EUSR
Above all, you will need to demonstrate our competencies and core values: TRUST, SUPPORT, ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPECT, PROFESSIONALISM, PRIDE and AMBITION.
**What’s in it for you?**
As well as a great opportunity to develop your career, the role offers:

- 5% bonus
- 23 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Entry into the company pension scheme
- Flexible benefits
- Supportive friendly working environment
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Why Bristol Water?*
Bristol Water provides water to over a million customers in the Bristol area, this equates to over one thousand square miles and 264,000,000 litres of water supplied every day
Since 1846, we’ve been making people healthier and the economy stronger. We’ve served generations of families and will serve generations to come.
We don’t just give people water. We keep them healthy and help them grow. People are the reason we work around the clock and test our water hundreds of times every day.
We’re here to have a positive impact on people and the planet for generations. Without people, it’s just water. With water, families flourish, businesses grow, and people create.
We’re a morning cuppa, that well-deserved bubble bath (although we’d prefer a four-minute shower), and that cold Friday pint after a long week.
We’re full of colour, pride and spiritjust like our small patch of the planet.
**We’re local**
We’ve been here for generations, we served your great-great-great grandparents (if they lived in Bristol, anyway).
Almost everyone who works here, also lives in the area.
We were born out of the needs of Bristolians and we’re still part of that today. So, we do what we do for ourselves, our families, our friends our people.
**We’re nimble**
Did you know we’re one of the smallest water companies in the UK, and we love it
It means we’re closer to people and we can do the things that matter. Being small means, we can be responsiv