Electrical & Mechanical Maintenance Technician

at  Scottish Water

Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.
The Maintenance Planning Team is recruiting for a Maintenance Technician 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 planned maintenance for Scottish Water’s operational assets.
What you’ll do
You will consistently review planned and essential maintenance activities to help asset owners and operators ensure their equipment operates optimally throughout its lifecycle.
Gather key site information to evaluate both operational and maintenance risks and take charge of developing practical maintenance plans.
Your focus will be ensuring that maintenance plans align with our maintenance policy and strategy.
You will be responsible for regularly updating stakeholders on maintenance compliance, the cost of failure, key performance risks, and returns on both capital and operational data.
You will also collaborate closely with key stakeholders to integrate any capital or operational changes into our plans, ensuring that delivery risks are minimized.
Update older maintenance plans based on best practices and our current maintenance strategy, triggered by capital data returns, site status changes, or maintenance reviews.
Work with stakeholders to conduct Root Cause Analysis on equipment that repeatedly fails.
We conduct quality assurance audits for our Maintenance Planning program.
And lastly, coordinate with planned maintenance delivery partners to ensure efficient delivery of maintenance and follow-up work.
What you’ll need
You will be customer focussed and always seeking continuous improvement with excellent communication skills. You will also have effective stakeholder management.
In depth knowledge of planned maintenance strategies and understanding of Risk Based Maintenance methodologies

You will have 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)
• An understanding of 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 and in end to end works management processes such as Maintenance Schedule Tasks (MSTs) & customer driven activities.
You will be Comfortable using Microsoft Office suite and other computer programs.
Lastly, you will need a valid UK driving licence.
Looking out for you
While the work we do is important, we know it’s not the only thing that matters. That’s why we make sure you have everything you need to find a good work-life balance.
You’ll get plenty of time to recharge with 38 days of holiday every year (including public holidays). And you can even buy five more if you need a little extra time. You can also take time off to volunteer in your community.
When it comes to major life events we have family-friendly policies around adoption, maternity, and parental leave. And for the everyday? We embrace flexible working.
For your future, there’s our pension (the ‘know-what-you’ll-get-when-you-retire’ kind), and life assurance. As for some nice extras? You can expect an annual company bonus. Not to mention access to SW Splash – handy rewards that can save you money on holidays, bills, and shopping.
The not-so-small print
This role will be a Grade 6. If you’re new to Scottish Water, you’ll join us on a starting salary of £33,560. Performance-driven pay progression would then allow you to move through the range to a maximum of £44,140. There is a requirement to participate on an out of hours standby rota.
In November 2024, we are moving to a 35hr week to support the wellbeing and work/life balance of our employees.
If you’re interested in this role – or know someone else who might be - we’ll be accepting applications until midnight on the 22nd of October 2024.
Job offers at Scottish Water are conditional, and will be confirmed of our pre-employment screening e.g. referencing, criminal record checks, license checks etc. Screening is conducted on our behalf by a third party, and must be completed before your start date. Don’t worry - we’ll only start these checks once you have accepted an offer.
A few final things worth knowing…
Research shows that some people avoid applying for jobs unless they can meet every single criteria. If you’re interested in this job, but don’t tick all the boxes, apply anyway! We hardly ever hire people who can do every part of a job from Day One. Everyone has a learning curve. So don’t rule yourself out!
Let us know if there are any changes we can make to our recruitment process to help you perform at your best. Lots of our people have disabilities or neurodiverse conditions (including some of our recruiters!). We’re also aware that some people might be experiencing temporary challenges because of life events, like menopause. We’re very used to making adjustments, so please don’t be afraid to ask.
As part of our commitment to developing a flourishing Scotland, it’s important that all our employees are Scottish taxpayers. If you join us, your home address will need to be in Scotland. If you don’t already live here, you’ll need to commit to moving here within your first three months.
Finally (finally!), candidates who haven’t submitted an application in the last 12 months will have their records removed from our recruitment database. You won’t need to do anything. Your data will be automatically deleted.
We’re here to help. Ask us anything at
SWRecruitment@ScottishWater.co.u

Please refer the Job description for details