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Operational Technology Engineer
at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water Other in Other (Published at 22-08-2024)
Operational Technology Engineer
Full Time
Permanent
£45,818 – £57,273
Pity Me, Durham
About the role
We’ve an exciting opportunity to support the development of your career with us in Information Services. As an Operational Technology Engineer, you will support our operations to deliver amazing clean drinking water to our customers whilst also enhancing and protecting the environment for the benefit of wildlife and the communities we serve.
Operational Technology (OT) is at the heartbeat of our operations and enables remote monitoring and control of our water & wastewater assets. It is key in delivering our performance commitments and providing an industry leading service.
Reporting to the Head of Operational Technology, you’ll join a team who is responsible for supporting and maintaining field-based instrumentation, automation, control, and communication assets. Working closely service providers such as operations, water quality, service planning, asset investment and maintenance, you will provide technical support and manage the OT services to ensure high availability, serviceability, and reliability of the estate.
We’re looking for you to support the delivery of our OT strategy and to ensure our systems, safe, secure, and compliant with all relevant standards and legislation. We are also looking for you to be innovative in evaluating new technologies, supporting the transformation and modernisation of the OT estate.
You’ll also provide technical support and training to operational and maintenance teams and support in the diagnosis of instrumentation and control issues to mitigate regulatory non-compliance and process continuity risks.
About you
If you have a full, clean driving license, experience of working in a technical environment, and would like a role that will engage you in the heart of our operations, in a great company, we want to hear from you.
You’ll be technically credible and have a good knowledge and technical understanding of instrumentation, process control systems and wide area telemetry systems.
With outstanding organisational and time management skills, you will be able to balance multiple priorities in a fast paced and dynamic working environment. You will have the flexibility and responsiveness to quickly identify and react to emergent issues.
Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation. We have our colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks too.
About us
Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.
We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, and that female candidates are less likely to apply if they don’t have the full range of skills, however if you have some of the skills listed, we 'd encourage you to apply.
NWG at a glance:
Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.
We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.
We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.
Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.
Our benefits
We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues.
Benefits to include, here’s just a few of them:
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Enhanced annual leave with additional special leave for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
- Company pension scheme
- Digital GP
- Award winning wellbeing website
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life assurance
- Qualification loans
- Professional subscription
- Buy and sell annual leave
- Discounts and cashback offers
NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.
We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.
Our valuesOur values describe our main principles, qualities and attributes. They are the guiding principles which define who we are, what we do and how we do it. They make us different from our competitors and guide our decisions and actions to drive us towards our vision.
Our values are:
Results Driven
We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.Ethical
We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.Customer Focused
We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.Innovative
We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.One Team
We work together consistently, promoting co-operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.Colleague benefits
We’re the great company we are because of you – our people. As our way of saying thanks, we offer you a wide range of benefits and discounts to take advantage of.
To find out more about our benefits, see our benefits booklet attached to this advert.
Eyecare
Discounted Medicals
Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle2work
Buying & selling annual leave
Long service awards
Salary sacrifice car scheme
Computer
Loans
Award winning wellbeing site
NWG savings scheme
Company pension scheme
Pre-retirement workshops
Life assurance
Discounts & cashback offers
Qualification loan
Documents Business Plan 2025-30 - Essex & Suffolk Water - Download Business Plan 2025-30 - Main Report - Download Business Plan 2025-30 - Northumbrian Water - Download Restore and Regenerate - Our Environment Strategy to 2050 - Download OT Communications & Process Control Engineer advert - Aug 24.docx - Download
