Metered Customer Service Advisor

Metered Customer Service Advisor - Fixed Term Contract 23 months

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:

• Competitive salary £25,776 - £31,981
• Company van
• Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum bonus opportunity for the performance year)
• Attractive pension scheme (Currently up to 12% company contribution)
• Development opportunities in line with the Metered Customer Service Advisor progression plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - plus an extra wellness day
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• Health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Located across East Yorkshire Goole area – to be considered for this role you should live within a reasonable commutable distance to this role location.

Work type
: 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday – FTC for 23 months.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Metered Customer Service Advisor to join the Water Service Delivery 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. Water Service Delivery are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

Yorkshire Water are currently recruiting a Metered Customer Service Advisor who will ensure domestic and commercial water meters are read accurately and timely and to provide, wherever practicable, immediate resolution of metering issues, whilst ensuring the delivery of excellent customer service.

As our Metered Customer Service Advisor you will:

• Locate external meter chambers/enter customer's premises, e.g. homes, factories, schools etc. on a cyclical basis to accurately record water meter readings.
• Ensure regular maintenance of meter reading rounds and location notes to agreed standards.
• Attend customer appointments to carry out basic investigations into high and low consumption and take appropriate action.
• Carry out ad hoc meter readings as required, e.g. checks and final reads.
• Identify and replace damaged meters where possible and in line with trained level of capability.
• Identify street furniture defects and undertake remedial action as appropriate.
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety legislation and adherence to accident management procedures.
• Work as part of the team to deliver excellent performance by understanding how their individual performance links into achieving the team's wider objectives.
• Take personal responsibility for yourself and also others with respect to health and safety, risk management and control of work to ensure compliance with the YW Safety Policy.
• Demonstrate relentless drive, energy and determination to deliver sustainable out performance for YW that rigorously achieves our vision to be clearly the best against demanding competitive industry benchmarks.
• Demonstrate financial awareness when making day to day business decisions.

This is an outdoors role so you must be comfortable working in all weathers and terrains.

You will be carrying out a range of manual handling duties including heavy lifting of manhole covers.

• Full Driving Licence…