Electrical Technician

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Electrical Technician to join our Maintenance team in our Wastewater Division to be based out of our Mogden STW.

As a successful candidate, you will use your electrical knowledge as well as your experience to inspect, maintain, fault diagnose, test, install, modify or repair mechanical plant and associated electrical equipment in a safe, efficient, timely and effective manner with minimum supervision, allowing us to ensure that all of our sites remain operational for the benefit of our customers.

This is an excellent opportunity to make a real difference to Thames Water's environmental impact, and you will be actively helping to reduce pollution from our sites.

• Ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself, colleagues, contractors, and visitors is always my top priority by always displaying the correct behaviours by complying with the Health and Safety at Work regulations and Thames Water’s Health and Safety guidelines.
• Examples of equipment that you will be working on include drives, various pumps, 3-phase motors, starters and controls, electronic control systems such as VSD, automatic valves, flow, level and pressure measurement, programmable logic controllers, variable speed drives and controls.
• Undertaking both reactive and planned maintenance, responding to alarms and fault finding to identify issues, fixing these or escalating, planned maintenance of plant and equipment on a daily basis, and installing new plant and equipment as required in line with current Standards and Regulations.
• Record work and asset information to improve business performance along with identifying possible future risks and recommending changes in the course of your day‑to‑day work and raising these for resolution as required.
• Provide specialist technical advice where appropriate with up‑to‑date technical knowledge, along with coaching, training and developing staff under their supervision, including the apprenticeship programme.
• Deliver excellent customer experience and positively contribute to overall customer satisfaction by interacting with all our customers (internal & external) in a timely, professional, efficient, respectful and polite manner.

Base Location – Mogden – Isleworth – TW7 7LW

38 hours per week Monday‑Friday, 7:30 am – 3:36 pm plus standby rota payments & overtime opportunities can increase the earning potential by up to a further £8,000–£10,000 per annum upon completion of essential company training.

All PPE, tools plus the provision of a van when on duty and on call.

To thrive in this role the essential criteria you’ll need are:

• You should be a time‑served apprentice with significant experience of electrical systems or with NVQ or C&G Level 3 in electrical engineering.
• 18th Edition preferred but training can be given.
• A problem‑solver, able to identify potential issues and implement solutions, or escalating if required.
• An excellent communicator, providing technical expertise to internal and external staff and contractors.
• Resilient, adapting to the pressures of work and working in a constantly changing environment.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision, under own initiative to design and standards.
• Knowledge and awareness of health and safety issues relevant to the industry.
• Team player who can work in many different teams showing respect for others, providing helpful feedback and supporting the development of others.
• Full UK driving licence.

• Offering a salary up to £42,000 per annum depending on skills and experience.
• Contributory pension – defined contribution, maximum of 12 % – 2 × employee contribution.
• Annual leave: 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with length of service (plus bank holidays).
• Performance‑related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
• Generous pension scheme through AON.
• Generous paternity leave, including 4 weeks paid and an optional 2 weeks unpaid.
• Enhanced maternity leave, 26 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay.
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health…