Mobile Engineer

What you’ll be responsible for

The primary role of the Facilities Mobile Engineer is to undertake the Planned and re-active maintenance of Welsh Water assets ensuring Statutory Compliance at all times. Identify and manage property asset reliability and risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations and ensure a safe and fit for purpose working environment is maintained. You will also:

• Work with the Head of Facilities Management to ensure the reliability and maintainability of all property mechanical and electrical installations and assets to ensure statutory compliance at all times
• Undertake all Planned Preventive Maintenance and Re-active calls and issues that arise on the property portfolio. Respond to ad hoc maintenance request from the Facilities Helpdesk
• Represents the Facilities Team in the final check out of new installations. This includes new builds and installations with on site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications
• Leads and ensures reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems
• Provides input to a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability that could adversely impact property assets and plant operation
• Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues 
• Provide on-call cover 24/7 on a Rota to respond to property failures and maintenance issues that my effect the buildings operation
• Provides technical support to the Facilities Team, maintenance management and technical personnel
• Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions
• Actively support delivery of projects to ensure completion within the statutory, regulatory and financial outputs of the DCWW Business Plan, demonstrating value for money investment on all projects by ensuring DCWW commercial and procurement processes are adhered to by all contractors and to interface with the operational teams, investment managements systems and Local Asset Management, processes and competencies to achieve DCWW measures of success
• Ensure that business is able to meet its requirement for project delivery in line with CDM requirements, to agreed timeline and within approved target cost which will enable delivery of the AMP DCWW H&S Improvement investment programme
• Support the Health & Safety management of contractors and suppliers on Welsh Water assets ensuring that Health And Safety is a high priority and is maintained at all times
• Identify and deliver best practice project delivery

Who you’ll work with

Internal

•    Key Stake holder and property user
•    Health & Safety, Operations, Procurement and Finance teams
•    All levels of management within DCWW
•    Capital Project/Programme Delivery Teams

External

•    Local Authorities including Planning Departments and Highways Departments
•    Framework Suppliers & Partners
•    Regulators NRW/EA/DWI/Ofwat/HSE/UKWIR/Water UK/Consumer Council for Water Wales

About you

Experience, Qualifications and Skills

• Qualified in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering
• Ideally at least 5 years’ experience in the Water Industry (Preferred).
• A wide range of project and people management skills are required, combined with strong experience in the delivery of maintenance & Reliability improvement projects within the water industry or similar.
• An ability to think strategically in terms of lifetime costs; by identifying a range of possible solutions and presenting a coherent rationale for a recommended action.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multi disciplined engineering environment whilst maintaining effective day to day delivery of services.
• The ability to work to tight regulatory and project deadlines.

Good to know

• 37 Hour week
• Mon – Fri
• Standby 1 week in every 5 weeks
   

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact: michael.gerlach@dwrcymru.com

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

 
•             Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
•             Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
•             Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
•             Free Mortgage Brokering Services 
•             Enhanced family friendly policies
•             Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
•             Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
•             Cycle to work scheme
•             Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
•             Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
•             Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
•             An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
•             Many more can be found here!  

 
 
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment
 
 
Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.
 
Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.