Reliability Engineer; ICA

Overview

Water Utility Company based in Yorkshire region of England.

Reliability Engineer - Instrumentation Control and Automation (ICA)

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year.

We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity. New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry.

Working as part of a multidiscipline team covering Electrical, Mechanical and ICA, as an ICA Reliability Engineer, you will investigate issues in our instrumentation, control, automation and telemetry systems for water and wastewater systems, driving improvements to the asset health and resilience whilst ensuring continued compliance to regulations. As a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for ICA, you will address unique engineering challenges and provide design and technical advice across Yorkshire Water.

The performance information is vital to show that our assets are healthy, reliable, show resilience and provide sustainability. We can then show, with confidence, that we can comply with our customer and stakeholder expectations.

• Lead investigations for equipment and asset failures and support investigations for process performance shortfalls.
• Review ICA assets performance and reliability data to identify critical assets/risks to the business and instigate RCAs for short, medium, and long-term issue resolution.
• Be responsible for proposing improvements to ICA asset performance and resilience. This will entail collaboration with other teams within Asset Delivery.
• Develop, implement, and maintain key reliability improvement processes across the YW ICA assets base.
• Work with suppliers to ensure provide strategic guidance for the deployment of new technologies.

• It is essential that you hold a formal engineering qualification to a minimum of HNC or equivalent (Preferably a HND or degree).
• Knowledge and ability to deliver and fully document a full Root Cause Analysis Investigation (RCA) following incidents and failures of process equipment and assets.
• Broad experience with ICA equipment maintenance
• Electrically qualified for safe access into control panels
• You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability of clearly communicating and influencing multifunctional teams with differing knowledge and ability.
• A full, valid driving licence (with no more than 6 points) is required for the role.

• Previous discipline-specific engineering experience in water/waste/sludge treatment process-related or production-based engineering operations.
• ICA systems knowledge, platforms used within YW are Allen Bradley SLC
  500, Mitsubishi IEC/GX Works, Schneider Modicon
• Proficient in the use of corporate IT Computer Systems e.g. SAP / excel / Power Bi / Pivot Tables
• Reliability experience within an engineering or process related industry.
• A strong attention to detail

If you’ve got experience as an ICA Reliability Engineer and want to help us deliver great service for our customers whilst looking after the environment, then be sure to apply today to find out what a career with Yorkshire Water can offer you.

If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance.

All our roles are subject to a medical questionnaire, and further medicals when required.

We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition that requires changes to the recruitment process, please include this information in your application. We will then discuss any reasonable adjustments required.

Just a Heads-up!! We may close this campaign as soon as a suitable candidate is found. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

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