Maintenance Technician – Dam & Hydro

Full time Permanent - 37 hours per week including weekends and bank holidays (7 day rota)

Salary up to £31,554 + 12% Annualised Hours Premium + Standby + Overtime = Excellent Benefits

Location: Kielder Operation Centre

About the role

We’ve a great opportunity to join our team at Kielder Waterside as our Maintenance Technician for the Dam & Hydro.

Working as part of a team you will be required to monitor and operate the Kielder Dam and Hydro plant and deliver leisure services at Kielder. We’re looking for you to be promoting and delivering our commercial activities, parks maintenance and the day to day operating and maintenance of Kielder Dam and Hydro plant, to ensure they are operating within an agreed set of standards.

We’re looking for you to work on a standby rota to support Dam & Hydro operations, along with providing day to day maintenance of Kielder Hydro and Dam. You’ll also be establishing positive working relationship with internal and external key stakeholders.

You’ll be supporting with the management and maintenance of the leisure services on reservoirs, ensuring regular inspections of assets and the safety of visiting members of the public. We’re looking for you to be a part of the Kielder Leisure team too, so we’re looking for you to provide a high level of Customer Service, enforce NWL fishing rules and regulations.

We’re looking for you to be part of the standby rota to support Dam & Hydro operations.

Please note

This role has been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test. Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked.

About you

We’re looking for you to have Full and valid UK driving licence and to be qualified to NVQ level 3 or equivalent in a building trade discipline e.g. joinery, plumbing or building maintenance, along with good practical skills covering maintenance and repairs issues.

You’ll have proven experience of working within a customer focused environment is essential as you will be dealing with our guests on a regular basis. Ideally you will have experience of working in a hospitality or visitor services environment and have proven practical skills that cover all aspects of maintenance work and repairs.

Here at Northumbrian/Essex & Suffolk Water, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups, as we believe and strive for community representation within all our teams, structures and organisation.

About us

Kielder Water & Forest Park is unique. The fourth largest place in the world with Dark Sky Status, Northern Europe’s largest man-made lake and England’s largest working forest. It’s the best place for an escape to the great outdoors.

As well as our location, our people are what makes us who we are. Many employees within our onsite teams have lived in the area for years and know everything there is to know about what you can do and see and the history. Their knowledge is unrivalled and proves invaluable to visitors.

Kielder Waterside sits within the larger Kielder Water & Forest Park. The Park is ran by a number of stakeholders and partners. Our aim is to give you the visitor the most special and unique trip you can have.

We are part of Northumbrian Water who are more than just a water company. We are one team, fulfilling many roles, working together to ensure our customers have clean, fresh, running water, whilst providing great customer service, protecting the environment, and supporting local communities.

We Live Water, all our amazing people are helping us become the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services.

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.