Maintenance Technician

Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland. The Maintenance Planning Team is recruiting for a Maintenance Technician in the Central Scotland (Glasgow/ Edinburgh), location flexible depending on the right applicant. Do you love a challenge? Are you self motivated? Do you possess excellent problem solving and people skills? Maintenance Planning may have the ideal role for you! You will be part of a proactive team based throughout Scotland who ensures effective planning, scheduling, and delivery of MEICA planned maintenance for Scottish Water’s operational assets. Role purpose

• Continuously review planned and essential MEICA maintenance activities to allow the asset owners and operators to achieve optimum lifecycle operation of equipment.
• To collate key site information to assess operational and maintenance risks.
• Ensure that maintenance plans comply with maintenance policy and strategy.
• Responsible for providing regular updates on maintenance compliance, cost of failure, key performance risks, and capital and operational data returns.
• Responsible for developing a deliverable maintenance plan.
• Liaise with key stakeholders to ensure capital and operational modifications are incorporated into Ellipse, planned maintenance activities are updated as required and delivery risks are mitigated.
• Update legacy maintenance plans in accordance with best practice and current maintenance strategy. This includes reassessments triggered by capital data returns, site status changes and/or triggered by site maintenance reviews.
• Liaise with stakeholders to carry out Root Cause Analysis of repeatedly failing equipment.
• Carry out quality assurance audits for the Maintenance Planning programme of works.
• Liaising with planned maintenance delivery partners to ensure efficient delivery of the maintenance and follow on work.

Essential Skills

• Customer focussed and always seeking continuous improvement
• Excellent communication skills and effective stakeholder management
• In depth knowledge of MEICA planned maintenance strategies
• Understand of Risk Based Maintenance methodologies

Knowledge of water and wastewater processes, including sufficient knowledge to identify:

• Main Functions & Sub Functions (e.g. chemical dosing – lime dosing)
• Equipment failure probability, consequences and risks (redundancy)
• Understand maintenance requirements and techniques, including;
• Regulatory requirements
• Health, Safety & Environment requirements

Knowledge of best practice maintenance activities, including;

• Non-intrusive techniques
• Condition monitoring
• Critical spares
• Manufacturer recommendations
• Experience in data analysis processes and techniques
• Experience in end to end works management processes such as Maintenance Schedule Tasks
• (MSTs) & customer driven activities
• Computer literate with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
• Have a current full driving licence

Desirable Skills

• HNC Electrical/ Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience in a similar role
• Electrical knowledge of IET regulations, fault finding and installations.
• Knowledge/experience of Ellipse, PowerBI & Salesforce

Curiosity to keep up to date on improvements to industry best practice including:

• Emerging technologies
• Equipment suppliers and specifications
• Maintenance strategies

Salary Scale: £31,380 - £43,350 You can also expect:

• 38 days of holiday per year (including public holidays) with the option to buy 5 more
• Eligibility to join the defined benefit, contributory pension scheme
• Annual company bonus
• Life assurance scheme
• Paid time off for community volunteering
• Access to "SW Splash", saving you money on holidays, bills and shopping
• Excellent family friendly policies around Adoption, Maternity, Parental Leave, and Flexible Working

Closing date for applications: 24th May 2023 Do you have any support needs? Please let us know if there are any changes we can make to our application and selection process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Email us here with the vacancy reference number in the subject line so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. Working at Scottish Water Scottish Water is one of the UK's leading water companies, the quality of drinking water and satisfaction with the service we provide our customers has never been higher - but we want to be even better – and you could help play an important part!
We take employee engagement very seriously and have an inclusive and collaborative work environment where we respect people’s differences. We are committed to creating an engaging environment and a positive experience for our employees.
We were recently recognised as a Top 10 Flexible Employer in Scotland at the Flexibility Works Awards 2021 and by The Times as a Top 50 Employer for Women in 2019.
In 2019 we also won the Age Inclusive Award at The Herald and GenAnalytics Diversity Awards and were winners of the Best Public Sector Employer at the Family Friendly Working Scotland Awards 2020.
We have Carers Positive Exemplary Status and were Silver Award 2019 & Gold Award winners 2020 of the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).
We aim for work to be an energising and fulfilling experience and everyone plays their part to ensure that Scottish Water is trusted to serve our customers and communities. We are passionate about creating opportunities for young people and are proud to have achieved the Gold standard in the Investors in Young People accreditation, demonstrating our commitment to creating rewarding opportunities for young people.
You will have access to a host of benefits which include 38 days holiday a year, a defined benefit pension scheme, a discounted medical cash plan and cycle to work, plus a variety of agile working arrangements and family-friendly policies designed to support your wellbeing. Next Steps Any offer of employment with Scottish Water will be subject to the successful completion of a mandatory pre-employment screening process, including Disclosure Scotland and eligibility to work in the UK. Details can be found on our website. For more information about this role or if you require any additional support throughout the application process please contact the recruitment team: SWRecruitment@scottishwater.co.uk As part of our commitment to developing a flourishing Scotland, it is important that Scottish Water employees are resident in Scotland and contribute to the Scottish economy by paying Scottish income tax on their earnings. As a result we ask all potential employees to confirm that they are resident in Scotland, or to confirm their intentions to move to Scotland within 3 months of their start date. Please note that candidates who have not submitted an application in the last 12 months will be automatically removed from our system records.