Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As our Water Network Operative, you will be part of our Network Operations Team. The purpose of this role will be to provide excellent customer service to our customers by undertaking operational tasks, resolving customer issues, and carrying out network valve activities with the least disruption to supplies.
You'll have the opportunity to start a long-term career with an industry leading supplier covering a breadth of functions across the water industry. You'll work with our contract partners and supply chain to deploy the latest technology and innovations.
You'll have the opportunity to work with the teams on Pressure Management Maintenance. installing assets for new Pressure Managed sites. You'll be installing Zonal & District Meters and exchanges.
You'll be supporting our network upgrade schemes as they arise. High Consequence Valve checks on our Trunk Mains and high-impact network valves. We also assist on all reactive requests from our network colleagues, where possible, during reactive situations as they arise.
What you'll bring
- Be someone that has well developed clean water network understanding as well as a clear ability to demonstrate the ability to undertake these key roles
- Ideally hold all current certifications that cover Water Hygiene, NRSW unit 2, sampling, flushing, valve operations
- Have a clear understanding of the Permit to Work system
- As the role involves driving to multiple sites, you must be a confident driver, as well as holding a full, UK driving licence
- You must possess a high degree of manual dexterity demonstrated through the use of hand tools.
- You will be required to work outdoors in all weathers and be required to walk and stand on uneven ground.
- You must also be able to work within a confined space, without restriction.
- You will be required to work nights.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
- 21 days plus bank holiday, rising to 25 days with service
- Personal Accident Cover
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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