Senior Technician
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If you want to do more, because you care, we want you on our team.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
Reporting into the PTT Enabling Manager, the PTT Day Technician Supervisor will form a crucial part for the delivery of water infra & non-infra network interventions using temporary supply equipment.
You will directly manage the technicians in their day to day operations, managing performance, safety and owning complex interventions.
You will be responsible for deploying and operating equipment to ensure the end-to-end delivery for multiple interventions taking place across the water network. You will liaise with the project engineers and project managers and manage your technicians to deliver critical plans and be the key stakeholder to ensure complex interventions take place.
You will interface with multiple teams to prioritise site coverage and carry out interventions by operating specialist equipment and the water distribution network.
You will be key player as part of an integrated team of internal and external water experts who have the capabilities to own the end-to-end process from intervention planning to delivering temporary network solutions using specialist industry leading equipment and methods.
You will be responsibly to maintain and use towable generators, booster trailers, LBCs, HGV’s, valve release equipment and confined spaces equipment.
This role will involve working closely with our interventions, repair and maintenance and local R&B teams to ensure we deliver the most efficient approach for our customers.
You’ll be working out of Minworth STW based with the Network Response Team and work a 8.5 hour day Monday to Friday
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE
You’ll have to have a good understanding of our clean water distribution network and can carry out operations to implement network interventions. You will have a strong background with understanding the configuration and controls of our water network and can troubleshoot for system failures, identify and implement temporary supply resolutions.
You will need practical knowledge and experience of operating our water distribution network and you will need to be a natural problem solver. Using your stakeholder management skills and immediate skilled team at your fingertips, you’ll turn any problem faced into a real solution.
Ideally will need demonstrable and proven leadership experience, however this is a role open for development opportunities.
This role is a flexible and exciting role in the Enabling team within the Potable Tanks Team, our team strategy is to identify and implement network solutions for complex problems using specialist equipment and techniques; to allow DSR’s to be isolated in their 1 in 10. We aim to be the driving force for solutions to complex network issues to enable capital and maintenance plans to be delivered efficiently. We also drive to improve our supply interruption ODI target by implementing a more efficient approach to temporary supply restoration.
The team will have the capacity to own the problem through to completion and has been designed to enable the Technical Experts plans to be implemented using the resource within the team. The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity and a caring attitude we want to talk to you, too.
We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We want people who show up and get involve. Those who are ready to be part of something bigger and who want to make a difference because they care. Is that you?
We do more, because we care.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent. We’ll reward you for it, too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.
With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Seven Trent family:
- £ 45782.10
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
- Annual bonus scheme (of up to £1,500 per annum based on company performance)
- Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
- Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
- Company 4x4.
- Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’
- Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
- Family friendly policies
- This role will need a C+E HGV license, and utilisation of roll on / roll off lorries; however training will be in place to support the role holder to meet this requirement
- Two volunteering days per year
WHAT’S NEXT
We can’t wait to hear from you.
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