Production Technician

Our client who provides high quality public water supplies to a domestic population are looking for a Production Technician who can ensure water treatment works are maintained, enabling the effective production of safe drinking water.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with planned maintenance schedules.
• Maintain, diagnose, repair, modify, configure, commission low voltage switchgear, motor drives, valves, gas dosing equipment, pneumatic plant, pumps and motors.
• Visiting water treatment works, pumping stations, reservoirs, monitoring asset performance and operability of the water treatment works across sites and to carry out essential duties.
• Collect asset performance data, recording routine activities and work completed.
• Demonstrate an ability to read, understand and work from electrical drawings.
• Respond to breakdowns on a range of M&E plant, assess problems, decide on action, acquire spares and carry out repairs as necessary.
• Ensure that equipment is maintained and calibrated to the manufacturers specifications and is auditable.
• Supervise team members and assist with their development and learning.

Qualifications/knowledge required

• ONC / Level 3 In electrical or mechanical engineering and a recognised apprenticeship in a relevant field within water utility or similar industry or equivalent experience as specified below.
• Relevant experience in a process and industrial environment.
• Experience implementing process improvements via control system modifications and experience in diagnosing and fixing complex process and control system faults.
• Knowledge of Chemical Handling.
• Knowledge of basic hydraulic principles.
• Proficient with working from electrical drawings.
• Full UK driving licence (Will be required to undertake our driver assessment).

Skills, Behaviours and Competencies

• Adaptable with good attention to detail and effective analytical skills.
• Accountable for own actions with a willingness to collaborate with others, whilst developing and sharing knowledge, ideas and best practice with others.
• Empathetic, Self-Aware and Comfortable with constructively challenging areas that could be improved.
• Systems based skills, open to learning new technology.
• Passionate about providing an excellent service, to our customer, colleagues and across teams within Portsmouth Water.
• Be flexible in your work to maintain operational requirements and to ensure positive outcomes are achieved at all times.
• Must understand the parameters within which instruments and control systems operate and the consequences of variance outside of those parameters.
• Good verbal communications skills, self motivated with the ability to react quickly and work calmly under pressure.
• In depth knowledge of fault finding, calibration, testing, investigation and in technical aspects such as flow meters, process instrumentation and other measurement devices are required.

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• on-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Yearly bonus