Industrial Electrician (Welsh Water)

What you’ll be responsible for

• Ensuring the correct Health & Safety, procurement and administration procedures are followed on every job, including up to date information required for Welsh Water waste key performance indicators. 
• Maintaining, repairing and installing electrical equipment on various assets types and locations, often in challenging conditions. 
• Producing high quality work, working with mechanical, instrumentation technicians and operations staff. 
• Able to work well and safely as part of a team or as an individual.
• Swiftly and comprehensively fault-find, rectifying problems on electrical equipment including sludge screening, sludge imports, centrifuges, odour control, CambiTM process, water treatment, steam boilers, CHP plant, digestion process, return liquors, thermally hydrolysed sludge dewatering and sludge exports.
• Installing, maintaining and repairing electrical systems generally. 
• Being part of a standby rota and planned work time with the post covering Five Fords, Wrexham sites, and may be called upon to work at other sites due to operational needs.
• Maintaining, repairing and installing electrical and instrumentation to ensure performance of all assets.  
• Actively taking part in Risk Assessment, COSHH assessment and all related Health and Safety issues. 
• Identifying problematic plant and the subsequent faults and to take part in finding efficient solutions to return equipment to working order. 
• Identifying requirement of spares and materials using preferred suppliers. 
• Completing of all job cards and timesheets to allow for monitoring of workload, performance etc. 
• Providing knowledge, information and provide on-site support for Welsh Water capital teams, operational teams and partners.
• Undertaking any other duties as required to meet the needs of the business.

Who you’ll work with

Internal 

• Strong working relationships within the Wastewater operational teams
• Advice and support from Operations, Process Science, ICA/ATC and and fellow Craft personnel
• Liaison with local Wastewater Networks Team
   

External

• Liaison and co-ordination of suppliers and contractors 
• Liaison with NRW/EA Regulators and other stakeholders 
   

About you

Experience, Skills & Qualifications
 

• Fully qualified electrician
• Compliance with 17th Edition IEE regulations
• Full, UK Driving Licence 
• An excellent understanding of planning and scheduling of work processes
• The ability to develop positive working relationships and to be seen as a highly credible representative of the team is required for this role
• Ability to take responsibility  make decisions and uses initiative, working proactively 
• Solution focused approach to resolving problems
• Critical thinking to be able to analyse information and provide a solution to situation effectively
• Working as part of a team and good communication and ability to influence others 

Good to know

The successful candidate will participate on call (1 week out of every 4 weeks), and also participate in 260 hours planned working time.

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact: john.o'neil2@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.