Proactive Maintenance Engineer

Exciting opportunity alert! Join our team as a Proactive Maintenance Engineer, supporting the Engineering and asset function to meet customer expectations and regulatory targets. Key responsibilities include criticality assessments, maintenance data verification, system-specific maintenance programs, and tracking production losses. Are you interested in driving a proactive maintenance approach? Please apply now to be part of our AMP7 plan and optimise reliability-centred maintenance!

What you’ll be doing as a Proactive Maintenance Engineer

• Perform top-down site and system criticality assessments and recommend an associated criticality score based on data and insight.
• Support the Maintenance Data Verification 2 process and provide technical leadership in planning decisions.
• Perform and recommend optimisation of system and site maintenance plans based on criticality scores.
• Instigate a plan to eliminate or reduce the losses through root cause analysis.
• Guide efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment and processes.
• Develop solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems adversely affecting operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues.

This role will be based at Reading Sewage Treatment Works, Hybrid. You will be required to attend the office and sites up to 3 times a week, and  as the role and business require you to do
36 hours a week, Monday to Friday
Must be a driver and have access to a car to travel to sites. This role will come with a £4.5k car allowance

What you should bring to the role

• Degree-qualified or hold a HNC in a Science, Engineering or Maths basis
• Proven knowledge of originating and delivering maintenance programmes
• Engineering knowledge gained within an operational / maintenance environment
• Strong stakeholder engagement and technical capability, with the ability to effectively collaborate, influence and inspire reliability-centred maintenance best practices and lead workshops
• Been exposed to forecasting, scheduling, and planning processes and systems throughout the asset lifecycle

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary between £55,000 - £61,000 per annum.
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 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, is packed with 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 need to 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, background, 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, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.