Maintenance Electrical Technician

**LET’S CUT STRAIGHT TO IT**

**Want to do the best work of your life? Playing your part in making a big difference to the environment and communities we serve. Our people make Severn Trent a truly exciting and inclusive place to work - a place where you can be yourself and letyour skills shine.**

Our purpose is taking care of life’s essentials, but we’re also big on making a difference, not just because we should but because we care.

The water industry is changing and we’re transforming it - that’s why we are investing over £2.5billion into construction projects over the next five years to improve the services we provide and the environment that we operate in. Our £565m Green Recoveryprogramme will accelerate our environmental commitments and improve our resilience to meet customer needs and the challenge of climate change.

We have an excellent opportunity to join us as an Maintenance Electrical Technician, the reliable operation and good maintenance of electrical/automation assets is key to ensuring treatment plants and processes are operating efficiently whilst maintainingquality outputs. The role is pivotal in assisting the Groundwater Treatment team to meet tough local and function wide targets around quality, continuous supply, and safety and cost control.
In the role of Maintenance Technician you will be expected utilise electrical knowledge and skills to maintain electrical plant to optimise equipment reliability, maintainability and asset/process performance. As a member of the team, you will be responsiblefor the reactive and proactive maintenance of electrical, instrumentation and automation across the area.

Sound like you? Then read on.

**LET’S TELL YOU MORE**

Your key accountabilities in helping us will be:

- Maintaining industrial electrical equipment. Specifically, fault finding, installation and routine maintenance on the following industrial electrical equipment types:

- Motor Starters
- Variable Speed Drives
- Electrical control circuits (relays, contactors, timers etc.)
- Maintenance and repair of treatment process control systems, specifically 4-20mA control loops
- Support the company’s drive to improve safety standards
- Responsible for ensuring all activities are performed in a safe and diligent manner to ensure regular feedback on issues arising before, during and following activities that are carried out
- Willing to train as an electrical Senior Authorised Person, LV (SAP)

**WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR**

Of course, it’s important that we attract the right skill sets, and those with the right experience but we value character, positivity and a caring attitude in equal weight.

We want people who show up and roll their sleeves up. Restless spirits who are ready to be part of something bigger, who care, who really care... because when you really care, you’ll go above and beyond. When you really care you don’t just talk about it,you do more.

We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We employ thousands of people from across our community who really care about whatthey do. Because that is how we do what we do.

And when it comes to inclusion, we’re making sure we keep up the progress with our wonderful working groups -LGBTQ+, Women in Operations & STEM, Disability and Ethnicity; who help us do just that.

**We do more, because we care.**

**HOW WE’LL REWARD AND CARE FOR YOU IN RETURN**

It’s not just a job you’ll get here, you’ll get a career too. We have a range of benefits that reward and recognise great work and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environmentand the community in which we live. Here’s some of our favourites:

- £30,758
- Great opportunity to become multi-skilled (increase on base salary)
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
- Annual bonus scheme (of up to £1,500 per annum based on company performance)
- Leading pension scheme - we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
- Sharesave
- the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
- Dedicated training and development with our 'Academy’
- Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
- Family friendly policies
- Two volunteering days per year

**LET’S GO**

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