Drain Repair Engineer

Drain Repair Engineer

Oxfordshire

Permanent - Full time - Monday to Friday 8am - 4.30pm

GBP18 per hour + vehicle + OT + bonus + benefits

The Client

We are currently working on behalf of a rapidly expanding, independent specialist with an impeccable reputation. The company is a specialist regional contractor across the drainage, environmental, rail, telecoms and traffic managements industries. They pride themselves on developing their employees and delivering excellent levels of customer service and client satisfaction.

The Role

They currently have a permanent requirement for a Drainage Engineer (Repairs) to work in a home-based role, ideally located in Oxfordshire or surrounding areas. In the Drain Repair Engineer role you will predominantly be site based undertaking all drainage jobs whilst ensuring, where possible, that work is completed on the first visit. You will be able to confidently explain to customers what work you need to carry out ensuring you leave them with peace of mind.

• Working hours are Mon - Fri 8am - 4.30pm (over time thereafter at time and a half) 40 hours contracted week
• On-call rota is 1 weekend in 5
• Time and a half is paid for Saturday working and double time for Sunday working

Experience Required:

Essential

• CCTV (labelling and recording)
• CAT Scanning in order to identify buried services.
• CAT Scanning to trace/locate the drainage system using camera sonde.
• Open cut pipework replacement in excavations
• Patch Repair experience (no dig repair using patch packer)
• Relining experience (no dig repair via inversion of calibration hose through liner using air or water)
• Reinstatement of various different domestic surface types (paving slabs, block paving, cold lay tarmac, concreting etc.)
• Excellent standard of customer care.
• Problem solving approach to repairs.
• In date Industry related tickets would be a huge advantage

Desirable

• Re-Rounding experience
• High Pressure Water Jetting (van pack)
• Use of 360 Excavators (1.5T, 3T, 5T)

The Rewards

The rewards for the successful candidate are excellent. The company are willing to pay a competitive starting rate of up to GBP18 per hour - 40 hour weekly contract) plus a fully equipped and expensed company vehicle and strong benefits package. This includes enhanced rate overtime, call out allowances, pension, holidays, career development and training opportunities for their employees.