Water Technician

Kier Group plc; Northfleet; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure service provider is seeking Water Technicians to join their Natural Nuclear and Network team. The role involves ensuring the maintenance of water quality standards through various technical tasks, including surveys and pressure tests. Candidates should possess strong IT and customer-facing skills, along with a full driving license. The position is field-based, requiring travel to maintain water supply systems and respond to incidents. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to essential services in the community.

Benefits

Wide variety of benefits

Qualifications

• Experience with water quality system surveys, bacteriological and chemical sampling.
• Ability to conduct planned valve operations including flushing.
• Experience with flow and pressure tests in water networks.

Responsibilities

• Conduct surveys and sampling to maintain water quality.
• Perform planned valve operations and flushing.
• Test flow and pressure in the water network.
• Update digital records of the water distribution network.
• Respond to water incidents as part of a reactive team.

Skills

Strong IT skills

Excellent customer facing skills

Good general knowledge of operational activities

Full Driving Licence

Job description

We're looking for Water Technicians to join our Natural Nuclear and Network team working on the Anglian Water alliance.

Location

Kings Lynn, Norwich or Ipswich

Hours

40 hours per week, some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

In this role you will be working on the Integrated Maintenance, Repair and Development Services (IMRDS) alliance on the Anglian Water Alliance. The team maintains the water supply systems, repairs emergencies like water bursts and develops new ways to better service customers.

What will you be responsible for?

As Water Technician, you'll play a pivotal part in ensuring our customers get safe, clean, drinking water every day. This is a hands‑on, outside, field based technical role, travelling around the local and wider geographical areas, operating Anglian Water's underground assets to ensure maintenance plans are delivered to maintain water quality standards.

Your day to day will include:

• Water quality system surveys, including bacteriological and chemical sampling
• Planned valve operations including pre/post operation flushing
• Flow and pressure tests in the water network
• Updating the water distribution network digital records
• Responding to company-level water incidents as part of an incident reactive team

What are we looking for?

This role of Water Technician is great for you if you have:

• Strong IT skills
• Excellent customer facing skills
• A good general knowledge of operational activities such as leakage control would be advantageous
• Full Driving Licence

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities. You can see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to get involved, register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.