ICA Technician

This is a mobile worker, this role will be covering parts of West but mostly South Yorkshire, ideally, we are looking for people within a commutable distance of Huddersfield, Wakefield, Barnsley or Sheffield.

Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday. Standby would be expected once achieved required level of progression + occasional overtime may be available.

We have an exciting opportunity for an ICA Technician to join a regional team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it's so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire's water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region's health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry.

As an ICA technician within our Asset Maintenance team , you will be required to work unsupervised in a wide variety of locations and be accountable for the completion of planned and reactive ICA tasks within agreed timescales, quality, and cost parameters.

You will have responsibility for maintaining, repairing, and commissioning instrumentation, control, automation, and telemetry systems across Yorkshire Water's asset base on treatment works, pumping stations, CSO's and reservoirs.

To support you in the delivery of maintaining, repairing, and commissioning the variety of assets across Yorkshire Water, we provide in-house training on areas such as; PLC's, SCADA, Instruments etc.

Asset Maintenance has focused ICA teams working across the whole Yorkshire region. Each team has its own geographical area of responsibility but on occasions, members could be expected to work anywhere in Yorkshire.

As our ICA Technician you will:

• Be required to work unsupervised in a wide variety of locations and be accountable for the completion of planned and reactive ICA tasks within agreed timescales
• Be expected to build and maintain relationships with operational customers, colleagues, suppliers, and partners
• Always work safely to agreed safe systems of work
• Proactively identify areas for improvement in relation to hazards, providing mitigation and submitting these to the safety database.
• Be responsible for maintaining, repairing and commissioning a wide variety of ICA related equipment from PLC's to telemetry systems and instrumentation such as pressure, flow, level, chlorine residual, turbidity and pH.

• A recognised electrical craft or technician apprenticeship
• A formal electrical qualification:
  National Certificate (ONC) or similar
• A practical electrical qualification:
  City and Guilds, NVQ or similar
• The ability to read and understand technical documents such as loop diagrams and electrical drawings
• The ability to identify and rectify faults on electrical systems
• Safe isolation to the current IET regulations
• IT skills

• IET 18th edition (requirements for electrical installations)
• Comp Ex:
  Ex 1, EX 2, EX 3, EX 4
• HNC electrical/electronic engineering
• Knowledge and experience on PLC systems (maintenance and fault finding)
• Professionally registered with the IET or similar
• Experience in the water industry or other process environment

We offer a competitive salary, 5a, £41,815 - £49,988, depending on experience.

• A company van
• Option of a Company car or Allowance after 12 months
• Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum Bonus Opportunity for the Performance Year (i.e. from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026)
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% contribution)
• Development opportunities in line with the ICA Technician progression plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - plus an extra wellness day!
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• A great benefits package - choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental…