Role: Water Network Technician / Leakage Inspector
Location: Birmingham, Gloucester or Oxford with field-based travel across Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire (View Our Operational Area Map)
Salary: £28,168 to £32,889 dependent on experience + overtime opportunities
Role Type: Permanent, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday plus telephone stand-by rota and opportunities for overtime
Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, paid birthday day off, annual bonus scheme, Westfield health cashback plan, generous pension scheme, flexible working hours, life assurance, enhanced maternity and paternity benefits and much, much more!
Ancala Water Services is a private utilities company providing clean and wastewater services to over 1,000 Ministry of Defence establishments across England and Wales. We’re proud of our positive culture which is built on trust, respect and teamwork so if this role fits with your skill and experience, we’d love to hear from you!
As part of our essential front-line operations service, you’ll be joining a collaborative and dynamic team that is responsible for ensuring that our networks run as calmly and efficiently as possible. This is a pivotal role where you will help reduce the overall cost of water charges by accounting for all water consumed, as well as reducing water that is bought, but not sold, on site. This is achieved through using a range of leakage detection methods and to monitor, minimise and record water performance. You will use your industry experience to problem solve and identify areas for improvement across your region and work collaboratively with the wider business.
Candidates must be based near Birmingham, Gloucester or Oxford to ensure easy access to our sites and to reduce travel time. There will be times where additional travel will be needed across our large region in this field-based role.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Accounting for 100% of water supply on to each of our sites and identifying leakage events
- Carrying out reactive and proactive leak detection on MOD sites and monitor the leakage system and collecting data
- Recording relevant site data and feeding this information back to the demand management team
- Installing and maintaining flow and pressure data logging equipment
- Ensure that all relevant site data is captured through detailed on-site investigations
- Escalating areas of risk to the wider business such as water quality issues, supply risks or H&S concerns
What You’ll Bring:
- Knowledge of water supply configurations and hydraulics by using site plans and schematics
- Knowledge of specialist leakage detection equipment such as correlators, cat and genny, acoustic logging and ground-mics
- Extensive technical expertise in all methods used to account for consumption and leakage
- Knowledge of testing and inspecting fire hydrants and configuring pressure and flow loggers (training will be given)
- Good problem-solving, communication and mobile device IT skills
- The ability to build and develop strong relationships at all levels with both internal and external contacts
- A good understanding of health and safety within an industrial setting
- A commercial awareness to understand the cost impact on the business when making decisions
- You will be comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions
About you:
Due to the nature of sites on which we operate, the successful candidate must:
- Meet the security clearance requirements for the role which includes, but is not limited to, the successful candidate being a full-time resident of the UK for the past 5 years’
- Ability to obtain Security Clearance which involves a Criminal Record Check and a full MoD Security Application and associated verification processes
- You must have a full, valid driving licence and be comfortable driving a van (company van provided)
