City: Cardiff
Job Requisition Number: 7274
Work Type: Permanent
Job Function: Facilities
Salary Range: £29,285.00-£33,277.00
Base: Cardiff
Closing Date: 23:59 on 17/03/2025
What you’ll be responsible for
The primary role of the Facilities Mobile Engineer is to undertake the Planned and re-active maintenance of Welsh Water assets ensuring Statutory Compliance at all times. Identify and manage property asset reliability and risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations and ensure a safe and fit for purpose working environment is maintained. You will also:
* Work with the Head of Facilities Management to ensure the reliability and maintainability of all property mechanical and electrical installations and assets to ensure statutory compliance at all times
* Undertake all Planned Preventive Maintenance and Re-active calls and issues that arise on the property portfolio. Respond to ad hoc maintenance request from the Facilities Helpdesk
* Represent the Facilities Team in the final check out of new installations, including new builds and installations with on-site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications
* Lead and ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems
* Provide input to a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability that could adversely impact property assets and plant operation
* Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations, including capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues
* Provide on-call cover 24/7 on a Rota to respond to property failures and maintenance issues that may affect the buildings' operation
* Provide technical support to the Facilities Team, maintenance management and technical personnel
* Apply value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions
* Actively support delivery of projects to ensure completion within the statutory, regulatory and financial outputs of the DCWW Business Plan, demonstrating value for money investment on all projects by ensuring DCWW commercial and procurement processes are adhered to by all contractors and interface with the operational teams, investment management systems and Local Asset Management processes and competencies to achieve DCWW measures of success
* Ensure that business is able to meet its requirement for project delivery in line with CDM requirements, to agreed timeline and within approved target cost which will enable delivery of the AMP DCWW H&S Improvement investment programme
* Support the Health & Safety management of contractors and suppliers on Welsh Water assets ensuring that Health And Safety is a high priority and is maintained at all times
* Identify and deliver best practice project delivery
Who you’ll work with
Internal:
• Key Stakeholder and property user
• Health & Safety, Operations, Procurement and Finance teams
• All levels of management within DCWW
• Capital Project/Programme Delivery Teams
External:
• Local Authorities including Planning Departments and Highways Departments
• Framework Suppliers & Partners
• Regulators NRW/EA/DWI/Ofwat/HSE/UKWIR/Water UK/Consumer Council for Water Wales
About you
Experience, Qualifications and Skills:
* Qualified in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering
* Ideally at least 5 years’ experience in the Water Industry (Preferred).
* A wide range of project and people management skills are required, combined with strong experience in the delivery of maintenance & Reliability improvement projects within the water industry or similar.
* An ability to think strategically in terms of lifetime costs; by identifying a range of possible solutions and presenting a coherent rationale for a recommended action.
* Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplined engineering environment whilst maintaining effective day-to-day delivery of services.
* The ability to work to tight regulatory and project deadlines.
As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:
* Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
* Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
* Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
* Free Mortgage Brokering Services
* Enhanced family-friendly policies
* Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
* Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
* Cycle to work scheme
* Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
* Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
* Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
* An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
Whilst also working for a not-for-profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers every day, and about looking after our beautiful environment.
Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.
Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post-offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject to all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.
Who we are
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keeps 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and takes away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.
To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.
We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work.
To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.
In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.
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