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Portsmouth Water is recruiting a Production Maintenance Technician to maintain production assets, support technical training, review work quality, and provide expertise for water treatment and distribution networks. This role assists the Production Technical Team Leader in ensuring efficient operations and implementing necessary improvements.

What will you be doing?

Key Responsibilities
Ensure compliance with planned maintenance schedules.
Maintain instrumentation, low voltage switchgear, valves, 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.
To exchange information with other team members, plant operators and departments within the Company as required.
To complete documentation accurately and in a timely manner to maintain internal change control standards.
Monitoring of external activities in the areas surrounding our works for any activities that may affect the integrity of the water sources, asset reliability, available leakage measures, and levels of unplanned outage.

What do you need?

Skills, Qualifications & Competencies

To be considered for this role, you’ll need to have a skilled qualification, which includes having completed a recognised apprenticeship in a relevant field.
Adaptable with good attention to detail.
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, across teams and the wider Water Industry.
A to C grade or Level 4 or above, GSCE English and Maths and ideally a Science based subject.
Computer and smart phone literate.
Full UK driving licence (Will be required to undertake our driver assessment).

We recognise people want to work in a variety of different ways, this means we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you may want.

We support equality, diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from all sections of society. The Company has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to work and live in the UK.

Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to respond to unsuccessful candidates. If your application is of interest to us, we will normally contact you within 4 weeks of receiving your application.