Thames Water is looking for a permanent Repair and Maintenance Night Supervisor.
As a Repair and Maintenance Night Supervisor, your role is to manage a set of R&M teams to deliver customer promises, and achieve regulatory commitments and company targets.
Your role will ensure your R&M teams operate compliantly with health and safety standards, work collaboratively with other TW functions to ensure customers receive a constant supply of good quality drinking water for your appointed areas.
- Working hours are Sunday to Thursday 21:30 to 07:00
- Location, Kidlington, OX5 1QT
What you will be doing as a Repair and Maintenance Night Supervisor
- Create engagement in and lead a team of field technicians and operatives to repair and enhance the water network in the most timely and cost-effective manner
- Provide on-going support to individuals teams through coaching, mentoring and excellent people performance management to drive efficiency
- Ensure health and safety is complied with and that paramount importance is placed on health and safety throughout our repair and maintenance operations
- Ensure high quality of repair and maintenance works in line with TW standards
- Engage with our customers, councils and manage wider stakeholder relationships to help work get delivered in a timely manner with minimal disruption
- Ensure R&M technicians and operatives are trained, skilled and available as required. Work in partnership with other business areas (e.g. Planning and Scheduling) to set-up and deliver an effective work-plan
What should you bring to the role?
- Leading Teams in a customer focused environment
- Technical understanding of water networks
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and procedures
- Utilise analytical and problem-solving skills in high pressure environments
- Employee relations/Performance Management
- Leading H&S Investigations
- In leading teams through change
- Understanding of leakage/technology
- A full UK driving licence
- EUSR Water Hygiene card
- Street works qualification (NRSWA)/SMSTS
- Service Avoidance L2
- First aid qualification
- Asbestos and COSHH awareness
- Abrasive wheels and manual handling training, as well as Confined Space awareness are desirable
What's in it for you?
- Offering a salary up to £46,800 per annum depending on skills and experience
- 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (Plus bank holidays)
- Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution
- Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year
- Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing
Who are we?
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.
Water is life's great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we're committed to taking care of it for us all.
But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?
Working at Thames Water
At Thames Water we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.
We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, background, and differences that each individual brings.
Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.
Find out more about working at Thames Water.
When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you'll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It's also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.