Telemetry Field Engineer

Severn Trent Water
West Midlands
4 days ago
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Salary (£): up to £40,000 dependent on experience


Telemetry Field Engineer

Hello, we’re Severn Trent and we think water is wonderful. Oh, we’re pretty keen on people too.


24 hours a day, 365 days a year we serve 4.8 million households and business across the heart of the UK. Each cuppa drank and every toilet flushed is only possible because of the 6,500 brilliant team members working across our patch.


We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality. We know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our customers and the communities where they live.


If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you. There really is something for everyone here.


EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

We have an exciting oppotuinity on a 6 month Fixed Term contract...


In this role as a Telemetry Field Engineeryou will be responsible for ensuring the functionality and availability of Severn Trent’s 7,000 telemetry outstations, which serve as the ‘eyes and ears’ of the company’s operational assets.


A covering letter for this role would be advisable confirming you have the qualifications needed or equivalent


For this role you must have an Electrical NVQ Level 3 or equivalent


These outstations are critical to the performance of Severn Trent’s operational ODIs and enable the Operational Control Centres to effectively respond to asset failure alarms. Your primary objective will be to complete any necessary field work to ensure that the entire outstation estate remains fully operational and available 100% of the time.


Other accountabilities will include:



  • Carry out reactive maintenance tasks to ensure 1µ availability across our outstation estate (e.g replace on failure, comms failure)
  • Complete both on site and remote firmware upgrades across the outstation estate to improve Severn Trent’s cyber security position
  • Roll out of the password policy across all outstations to ensure compliance to NIS-R
  • Identify and carry out improvement tasks on repeat offending sites
  • Carry out asset replacement and upgrades as part of the AMP8 outstation replacement programme (2G and PSTN)

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE

In order to be successfulin this roleit is expected that you will have excellent fault finding skills along with prior knowledge of telemetry outstation.


It would be good be if you have worked with WITS compliant devices along with IP enabled devices.


For this role you must have an Electrical NVQ Level 3 or equivalent


WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent, and we’ll reward you for it too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.


With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Seven Trent family:



  • Salary up to £40k dependent on experience
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year) + company van
  • Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,225 per annum based on company performance)
  • Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
  • Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
  • Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’
  • Family friendly policies

WHATS NEXT?

We can’t wait to hear from you.


Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare.


And if your curiosity has peaked and you're wanting to find out even more, search#LifeAtSevernTrenton social media.


Ps. we’ll always let you know the outcome of your application after the closing date - so keep an eye on your phone and emails.


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