System Maintainer

As a System Maintainer, your role will be to maintain consistently high standards and reliability across the Logistics Delivery Systems. These include attention to detail and a methodical approach in all areas of the Transport Delivery Systems. The role sits within our Logistics Delivery department and supports the business in providing a cost-effective resource solution to our customers and the different business areas.

What you will be doing as a System Maintainer

• Maintaining, updating, and monitoring our driver resources rota, to ensure our business needs are covered and that our driver numbers are adequate to fulfil business requirements.
• Ensuring any driver overtime requirements are requested, reviewed, updated, and communicated depending on the business needs.
• Being accountable for ensuring all holiday requests are reviewed and agreed within the business terms.
• Manage driver sickness cover, maintaining resource levels for each business area.
• Manage the bookings for the Customer Event Vehicle, working with customers from point of enquiry through to completion.
• Maintain compliance records and compliance systems, using various transport systems.
• Checking DBI Systems within our vehicles, updating details for drivers.
• Maintain Driver APP and action updates.
• Ensure H&S, driver SHE5’s are actioned and communicated to relevant sites and COP’s.

For this role, a driving licence is required.

Location – Kemble Court, Reading on Hybrid basis.

Hours of work are 36 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

What you should bring to the role

• Be capable and knowledgeable in all aspects of I.T, especially in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Have good interpersonal and customer relations skills.
• Be organised, forward thinking and adaptable.
• Be able to work on your own and as part of a team.
• Demonstrate clear knowledge of Transport law and the Road Traffic Act.
• Knowledge of compliance with transport legislation, including drivers’ hours regulations in line with the ‘O’ licence legislation and company procedures.

What’s in it for you?

• Offering between £26,000 to £30,000 per annum depending on experience and skills.
• Annual Leave - 24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays) 
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Who are we?

Our business continues to operate as usual, delivering our essential services to around 16 million customers across London, Thames Valley and the Home Counties. 

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive. Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water

At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.