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Industrial Mechanical Maintenance Technician

Salary up to £45,100 + (OTE of up to £13,000)
Location Hanningfield, Chelmsford, Essex
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Industrial Mechanical Maintenance Technician

Permanent role – 36 core hours per week

Salary – up to £45,100 + (OTE of up to £13,000 in overtime/standby/Technician upskilling modules after training)

Location – Chelmsford, Essex, with travel to sites across the Essex area

Mobile Worker – van and fuel card provided

 

About the role

We are looking to recruit a Mechanical Maintenance Technician to join our Maintenance and Reliability team, supporting sites across the Essex area. If you enjoy variety, responsibility, and working with cutting‑edge equipment, this role offers the chance to make a real impact every day.

No two days are the same. You’ll use your skills in fault diagnosis and preventative and proactive maintenance to improve plant performance, availability, and reliability. At Northumbrian Water Group, you’ll work on a wide and varied asset base, providing excellent opportunities to develop and specialise in areas such as pumping and control systems, chemical dosing and condition-based maintenance including Vibration analysis and ultra sonic lubrication application.

This is a fully mobile role, with a company van, tools, and equipment provided—your working day starts and finishes from home. You’ll take part in an out‑of‑hours standby rota, with full training and support to help you succeed. Competitive additional payments are made for standby duties, callouts, extra hours worked and specialist modules.

At Northumbrian Water Group, we invest in our people. You’ll benefit from tailored training packages, long‑term career development, and genuine progression opportunities within a supportive and forward‑thinking team.

 

About you

You MUST be a time-served Mechanical Technician, educated to at least ONC / NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering. You will have experience in maintenance environments, including reactive breakdowns and planned maintenance, and be able to manage your workload effectively with minimal supervision.

You will be confident in reading and fault-finding from Mechanical drawings, identifying root causes and repairing or replacing faulty components.

We are looking for someone with a positive, can-do attitude, a willingness to learn and an openness to new ways of working. A hands-on, practical approach, combined with a keen eye for diagnosing issues and implementing effective solutions, is essential.

You will have good communication skills, work well as part of a team, and demonstrate a strong commitment to Health and Safety, aligned with our Everybody Home Safe Everyday culture.

A full UK manual driving licence is essential for this role.

 

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. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

  • Generous holiday entitlement starting at 23 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
  • Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 11%.
  • Free access to local attractions.
  • A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
  • Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
  • Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
  • Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
  • Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.

 

This role has also 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

Please note this role will require a DBS to be completed prior to employment

 

About us

Essex & Suffolk Water is 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 waste water 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.

Our 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:

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Results Driven

We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.
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Ethical

We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.
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Customer Focused

We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.

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Innovative

We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.
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One Team

We work together consistently, promoting co-operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.

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.

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