Night Field Engineer

We are seeking a Night Field Engineer to work as a part of our South London team at Thames Water.

With this role, experience is desirable but not essential and is a brilliant opportunity to join Thames Water’s Water Networks team at an exciting time as it continues its business and cultural transformation.

Your role will be to ensure we’re providing an excellent service to our customers through effective operation and maintenance of the Networks.

• This is a nightshift position - This is a full-time role, Mon - Thu 20:00pm - 06:0am.
• We are offering a salary of up to £37,680 per annum depending on skills and experience and a company van and a fuel card.
• The base location for this role is Stroud Green, CR0 8YY.

 What you’ll be doing as a Night Field Engineer

• Maintaining a high level of health and safety for yourself and your colleagues.
• Undertaking a series of tasks to enable the identification and resolution of leakage in our hydraulic systems, investigations will include activities such as step testing, portioning of areas to understand leakage, flow testing, correlation, and logger deployment.
• Identifying and resolving system issues impacting levels of service such as Poor Water Quality, Poor Pressure Burst Pipes etc.
• You will be fully supported and provided the necessary training, whilst working alongside an experienced engineer, to carry out all the above activities.
• Taking ownership of any issue/anomaly and seeing it through to resolution.

What should you bring to the role?

• Previous field experience would be beneficial but is not essential – we welcome people who are keen to learn.
• Be a team player and must be passionate about your personal development.
• Keen to learn a new industry.
• Health and safety focused.
• Deliver great customer service through a positive approach, taking accountability for your role while working accurately and flexibly within a busy team.
• Possess IT skills to communicate via a portable device.
• Due to the nature of the role a full UK driving licence is required.

What’s in it for you?

• We are offering a salary of up to £37,680 per annum depending on skills and experience and a company van and a fuel card.
• Annual Leave 24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Who are we?

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.

Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We must keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water

At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.