Field Technician - Clean Water

Field Technician - Clean Water

Package:

• �30,000 to �38,000 per annum plus favourable overtime rates
• 40 HOURS PER WEEK (Monday to Friday)
• 20 days plus UK bank holidays (usually 8 days) plus long service reward
• No Standby
• Company utility van with air conditioning, fuel card and all tolls paid upfront
• Contract mobile phone and tablet and / or Toughbook
• Health & Lifestyle Rewards Scheme
• 2 x Companywide team meetings including Summer Team Building event and Christmas Party.

Job Summary:

Alecto Recruitment is currently assisting a project management and consultancy specialist within the clean water asset services sector, who are now looking to appoint a Clean Water Field Technician to provide solutions for their clients by seeking leakage and unaccounted-for-water, providing resolutions and mitigation plans to ensure the network works as efficiently and effectively as possible.

As a rapidly growing business, they pride themselves on recruiting the very best team to deliver projects with industry leaders nationally, who also engage on large-scale engineering developments such as the Thames Water Tideway and HS2 projects.

Responsibilities and Duties:

We are seeking an experienced Field Technician with a strong, practical background in network operations in the clean water sector.

Location of work is Watford & Slough, as far west as Oxford. you must reside within this area.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Lead on trunk and distribution main isolations, asset investigation and validation, logger deployment, operability testing, reservoir outages, mains disinfections, and mains commissioning and water quality activities such as flushing and sampling.
• Assist Project Manager with leading and controlling all on-site field activities including complex and emergency works
• Carry out comprehensive site surveys, risk and hazard reports and inspections for submission to clients and to supporting RAMS preparation
• Brief all team members, subcontractors and suppliers on site-specific RAMS, project briefings and any associated toolbox talks.
• Conduct investigations and observations to support the continuous improvement to field based work activities, reporting standards, traffic management considerations and night work referrals.
• Recognise issues that may arise, identify the root cause, use the resources available and troubleshoot to resolve, repair or make adjustments as required in liaison with all stakeholders.

This is a varied field-based Water Network Field Technician role, primarily based in and around the Slough and Watford area, with work in the Thames Valley region.

As a Field Technician, you will be able to undergo duties in the capacity of the first-person, troubleshooting to achieve a safe, first time result.

You will handle both planned and unplanned work, investigating clean water networks to address performance issues such as high or low pressure, leakage, metering queries, and supply disruptions.

There is a requirement to work 1 in 4 weeks night work, which excludes Friday night as standard.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Minimum 5 years practical, clean water industry field experience.
• First-person lead on trunk main isolations on large diameter mains
• Experience with: District metered area validation, zonal pressure tests and experience with valve shuts offs and step testing. Large diameter trunk main isolations, asset verification and validations.
• EUSR Water Hygiene
• Valve operations including CALM Networks
• NRSWA Operative (Unit 2)
• IT proficient including Office365, GIS mapping tools, PDA/Tablet use and online reporting software.
• Full, clean UK driving license.

With positions available for an immediate start, this is a key hire for the business and one will be looking fulfil as soon as possible.

To avoid missing out, please forward your CV to (url removed) or contact me direct on (phone number removed) extension 206.

Please note Alecto Recruitment are acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.