Metering Technician

Are you looking for an opportunity to start a career within a new field?

We’re looking for a Trainee Metering Technician to join our Utilities, South-West Water team. Within this role, we will provide you with all the training and tools to help you launch your new career.

Kier Utilities brings the built environment to life, keeping people and businesses connected. In this role, you will be working on our South-West Water contract, where we work on repairs and maintenance services to provide reliable, efficient, and high-quality drinking water and wastewater services.

In the role of Metering Technician, you will work closely with another member of the team, going out to local areas working on schemes such as district metering and large and complex mains repairs.

Location: Based in North Devon

Contract: Permanent

Trainee Salary: £25,500 per annum

Responsibilities

As a Metering Technician for the South-West Water team your day-to-day will include:

• Use of a tablet and contract specific software for accessing updating and recording all old and new meter details.
• Physical exchange, unscrewing of old meters and replacement (screw-in) of new meters (High volume, street by street exchanges with targeted outputs week by week)
• Completion of comprehensive photo records, meter serial numbers and meter readings.
• Proactive customer engagement, liaison, and feedback.
• Survey of meters requiring further works, plumbing, excavation or dig out to enable exchange.

We will provide you with EUSR Water Hygiene, Blue Card and Manual Handling Training certifications, in order to successfully carry out the role. We will provide additional training and development to help you progress within your career at Kier.

Who are we looking for?

No experience required, although advantageous, as we will provide you with full training.

• Full UK Driving Licence
• Comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions
• Tech savvy – able to pick up new IT systems

We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.

Closing date: 18th April 2023

Please click apply or send your CV to: utilitiesrecruitment@kier.co.uk

Benefits at Kier

We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

• new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity, leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance, and more
• A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
• 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
• Kier’s Green Car Scheme
• A huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands

And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: www.kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Please note, that interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.