Plant Operative

1 week ago


Avonmouth, United Kingdom Wessex Water Full time

Do you enjoy working outdoors and being involved within a practical role? If so, we have a new position for a Dewatering Plant Operator join our Avonmouth Water Recycling team.

**What can I expect?**

As a Dewatering Plant Operator, you will be responsible for you will help to install, operate, and maintain the dewatering and water management network on our Avonmouth site to ensure that all operations meet our rigorous safety. Quality and service standards. You will be working in a great team, both indoors and outdoors, in all environments, dealing with different challenges every day and providing a vital service.

Day to day, you will perform a range of routine and reactive operational and maintenance work, making sure that everything is done within permit conditions and in line with relevant procedures.

Health and safety is a priority for us, so you will be expected to operate within strict guidelines to ensure the safety of yourself, your team, our subcontractors and other contracts and colleagues on site.

**What do I need?**

This is a busy, varied role which involves working on a complex and challenging project, so we are looking for someone with a positive and can-do attitude who is well organised, and customer focused.

Ideally, you will have previous experience within the construction industry. However, we will teach you all you need to know to be successful in the role. Trade skills and previous experience of hand tools, power tools, woodworks, fixtures, and fittings would be advantageous.

You will interact with a range of stakeholders, including your own team, client representatives and other contractors. Therefore, good communication skills and being a natural team player would also be advantageous.

**Benefits for you**
- Pension - up to 20% combined contribution
- 25 days’ holiday rising to 28 with length of service pro rata
- Opportunity to buy and sell up to five days’ holiday
- Health benefits package
- Life assurance (up to four times your salary)
- Electric vehicle salary exchange
- Flexible working
- Cashback and discounts from over 1,200 retailers
- Paid volunteering day
- Enhanced family leave
- Interactive health and wellbeing platform
- Support from mental health first aiders
- £1,000 referral fee if you recommend someone to work for us

**What will you get from us?**

Our people tell us Wessex Water is a great place to work, and they stay with us We are proud of how we support development and career progression. We have a wealth of both financial and non-financial benefits to offer our people and are committed to ensuring we provide an environment that supports health and wellbeing and flexible working.

We continue to promote diversity and inclusion. With that in mind, we welcome all applicants.

We are delighted to have signed the Armed Forces covenant and are a Disability Confident Employer. Applicants who declare they have a disability or have previously served with the Armed Forces, and meet the minimum requirements for the job, will automatically be invited for an interview.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to assist you in starting your journey with Wessex Water.

If you have what it takes to join this award-winning business and want to be part of our exciting journey and share in that success, then please get in contact with us to find out more.

**_Sound interesting?_


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