Drainage Engineer - Jetting Operative

Drainage Engineer - Jetting Operative

We are looking for full time JettingOperatives to join our team at Thermatic Drainage. This role will support the effective, efficient, and safe delivery of our client services by attending client sites to conduct planned and reactive maintenance work.

This is a fully mobile role and requires a full UK driving licence.

The ideal candidate will have previous drainage experience and will be familiar with unblocking drains, high-pressure water jetting, trenchless pipework repairs (no dig repairs) and carrying out looksee CCTV drain inspections.

Ideally you will hold the relevant competencies, but where training gaps are evident or where refresher courses are needed, we will offer full support and training will be provided.

The Benefits:

• Opportunities to increase take home pay through overtime
• Personal use of company van permitted
• 28 days holiday (inc bank holidays) + a day off on your Birthday
• Auto-enrolment Pension - 9% combined contributions
• Death in Service Insurance @ 4 X salary
• Extensive Healthcare & Wellbeing provisions including:
  
  • Private Medical Insurance - excess paid
  • Dental & Optical cash back scheme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Access to virtual GP support
  • Health discounts
  • Access to annual health screening
• Enhanced Family Leave policies
• Company events
• Referral bonus
• Employee of the Month awards
• Long Service Awards & Loyalty Holidays

Hours & Location of Work:

Main location - this is a fully mobile role covering North Wales and Northwest England. You will need to able to attend Thermatic Drainage Head Office in Deeside each day.

Regular hours of work - Monday to Friday, 7.30am to 4.30pm - 42.5 hour working week. Whilst this is our company standard working week, our clients may require "out of hours" maintenance so early starts/late finishes, weekend & night works are to be expected.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications:

Essential:

• Minimum 2 years’ drainage experience
• Minimum 2 years’ experience operating High-Pressure Water Jetting Equipment
• High pressure water jetting safety awareness certified
• Working knowledge of drainage systems
• Working knowledge of unblocking drainage systems
• Competent in using CCTV drain survey equipment
• Confident problem solver
• Excellent communication skills
• Sound understanding and experience of meeting Health & Safety obligations
• Full UK driving licence

Desirable:

• Minimum 2 years drainage experience within a reactive maintenance or FM role
• Manual handling
• First aid
• Abrasive wheels
• Confined space entry certified
• Drain lining experience
• Use of CAT (cable avoidance tool) for utility and sonde location works
• Asbestos Awareness certified
• CSCS card

Responsibilities include:

• Working on reactive contracts undertaking all aspects of drainage fault finding works, including CCTV drain surveying, HPW jetting/drain cleaning works, drain unblocking, drain lining repairs (experience dependant), drain excavation and repair, drainage layout mapping (experience dependant), drainage works problem solving.
• Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance in accordance with Thermatic’s PPM (Planned Preventative Maintenance) and task schedules as directed by the Help Desk and/or management team
• Providing accurate timesheet information to designated timeframes
• Carrying out basic facilities maintenance tasks as required
• Supporting contract teams with meeting SLAs by attending client premises within the desired timeframe
• Supporting Thermatic with maintaining positive client relationships through on-site interactions with representative and customers of our clients
• Assisting office-based staff by providing accurate and good quality information for any further works quotations.
• Producing technical and situational reports as required
• Escalating any major site issues or incidents via the appropriate channel and within acceptable timeframes
• Supporting the training and upskilling where required of junior service engineers

Our People

We’re a business built on people and it’s the people that make us different from other companies. If you believe your skills and experience can bring value to this role then we'd love to hear from you.

We’re a diverse group and encourage our people to be independent thinkers and collaborative doers to create a supportive culture full of passion.

We provide opportunities for growth and development across our organisation through apprenticeships, professional qualifications, management training, and on the job learning. As a business that is continually growing, we’re looking to attract the best talent in the industry to grow our workforce and join our combined efforts towards our goals.

Thermatic Group is an Equal Opportunities employer and takes is responsibilities relating to Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion seriously. For further information, you can request a copy of our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Policy.

Guaranteed Interview Commitment – We have made a commitment to improve employment opportunities for ex-military personnel. Therefore, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the commitment and the essential job role criteria.