Who are we?
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km’s of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
What you will be doing
We are currently seeking a DSEAR Competency Assessor. This technical role primarily involves the assessment of a range of personnel involved in the asset cycle of explosion protected equipment across the business. It will involve the assessment of personnel engaged in electrical work within potentially explosive atmospheres to ensure that the required competency is achieved including work is undertaken to a high standard and in compliance with BS EN 60079 and BS7671.
The ideal candidate will be contributing to the success of DSEAR quality improvements across the business as well as the overall promotion and compliance with the Company Electrical Safety Rules. Role duties will include:
- Day to day management of your area of the DSEAR competency assessment programme including managing your time visiting and assessing technical staff across the business.
- Create reports resulting from assessments and create action plans
- Contributing to Technical Forums to help drive safety improvements across the business.
- Identifying skill gaps, providing coaching and organising internal/external training as required.
- Communicating and engaging effectively with frontline technical staff and management
- Providing DSEAR related technical support across the business
- Contribute to solving problems on a variety of DSEAR related challenges across the business
- To promote and maintain health, safety and wellbeing performance within the team
We’re looking for you to:
The ideal candidate must have previous experience in working as an Electrical Installation Electrician within an industrial environment, ideally Water Utility or Petro-Chemical sectors. You must be an approved Electrician with 18th Edition and Inspection & Testing qualifications and worked as a CompEx qualified Installation and Inspection Electrician with a suitable installation experience.
Hold a current qualification of CompEx Gas and Vapours (Ex01-Ex04) and have an Electrical Engineering or significant electrical engineering qualification to at least ONC or equivalent.
- Have a proven track record in motivating a team with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ideally you will have worked in a supervisory role including coaching less technically able individuals.
- In addition to CompEx Gas & Vapours (Ex01-Ex04) ideally have CompEx Dust (Ex05-Ex06) and/or CompEx Water Industry (Ex09 – Ex10)
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of working on various equipment protection concepts (d, e, i, m, n)
- Understanding of water and wastewater treatment processes is advantageous but not essential.
- Able to use Office365 in particular MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams.
- Good understanding of the Electricity at Work Regulations and their application to the business.
- A full driving licence is essential as the role requires travel within the Thames Water region. You will have the option of a Thames Water Van or car allowance.
What’s in it for you?
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader and we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
You can find out more in our working for us section of our website.