Distribution Maintenance Technician

 

Distribution Maintenance Technician
 

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about some of the key aspects of the Distribution Maintenance Technician role.
 

We offer a salary from £26,844 - £33,250 per annum dependant on experience. This salary range will increase by 4.5% from 1st April.

 

• Company Van
• Annual performance related bonus 
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 10% company contribution)
•  Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
•  25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – plus an extra wellness day!
•  A great benefits package – choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover. 
• Retail savings scheme 
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

 

 

Where I’d work:  Hull/York Areas, although you must be willing to travel across the Yorkshire region, when required within your role

 

 

Work type:  Permanent role, working full time, 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday between a working window of 8:00am-6:00pm. Occasional out of hours/weekend working will be required in the role.

 

 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Distribution Maintenance Technician to play a key role in ensuring a high quality water supply to our customers. Could this be you?

 

 

What we do:
 

 

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.
 

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity. 
 

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. 

 

 

Where you fit in? 
 

 

This role sits within the Distribution Maintenance Team. The team is responsible for the delivery of a programme of planned interventions onto the water network at a District Metered Area (DMA) level and cyclical pipe level flushing interventions throughout Yorkshire. In addition to this, there are other proactive maintenance activities such as below ground, cyclical network asset inspections, reducing the potential risk of network contamination. 
 

The team's primary objective is to assist in the reduction of the number of Black, Brown, Orange (BBO) water discolouration - Water Quality contacts we receive as a business to meet the Water Quality Contacts performance commitment. The team play an important function in the delivery of network Legal Instrument undertakings from the Drinking Water Inspectorate by means of DMA flushing.
 

 

Some key role responsibilities include the following – 
 

 

• Carry out planned flushing and sampling as per process and deploy data loggers pre & post the flushing activity within the DMA to capture the impact of the activity
• Execute and record all planned flushing activity through desired flow/duration of works required to achieve optimal performance and risk mitigation.
• Amend schematic/timetable when unforeseen issues arise i.e. inoperable assets on the network.
• Capture data to calculate depth of sediment material removed per