Mechanical Fitter

Overview

Water Utility Company based in Yorkshire region of England.

Mechanical Fitter

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:

• We offer a competitive salary of £40,110
• A Company van
• Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum bonus opportunity for the performance year)
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 10% company contribution)
• Development opportunities in line with the Mechanical Fitter progression plan
• Standby call-out payment and associated overtime payments when called out.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - plus an extra wellness day!
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• A great benefits package - choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

As a Mechanical Fitter, you ll play a vital role in maintaining critical assets across our clean water asset base, ensuring that the county is continuously supplied with high-quality water. You will mainly be working on assets in the Sheffield/Rotherham areas but may occasionally be required to help out in other areas.

This is a permanent position, 37 hours per week over 4 days Mon-Fri. 4 x 9.25-hour days, 0730 to 1715, starting and finishing at home location. Rota day is rolling so will change each week.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced mechanical fitter to join our clean water maintenance team. With a four-day working week Mon-Fri, this role offers a great work-life balance for those who value their time off as much as their work!

If you enjoy being busy and are always eager to learn new things, then this could be the job for you.

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. But for us, it s so much more than this.

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. The Clean Water Maintenance Team are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

As our Mechanical Fitter you will

• Undertake maintenance of Yorkshire Water  mechanical assets mainly across clean water
• Mobile working as part of a Maintenance Team to deliver Planned & Reactive maintenance. Responding to emergency calls both in and out of hours (on call-out rota). Driving to deliver improved asset reliability through effective decision making.
• Maintenance Services has multi-disciplined MEICA teams working across the whole Yorkshire region. Each team has its own geographical area of responsibility but on occasions, members will be expected to work on any Yorkshire water asset. This could be during periods of escalation due to adverse weather or similar.
• As a Mechanical Fitter, you will be required to work unsupervised in remote geographic locations and be accountable for the completion of planned and reactive mechanical tasks within agreed timescales, quality and cost parameters. Candidates will be expected to manage and prioritise your own workload effectively and to build and maintain relationships with operational customers, colleagues, suppliers and contract partners. Adhering to the Health and Safety policy and standards actively identifying hazards, providing mitigation and reporting onto the company hazard database to ensure the cause of the hazard is removed.
• You will be required to occasionally work alongside our approved Contract Partners, however…