Maintenance Team Leader (M&E

Power Resilience is critical to Thames Water's ability to provide safe, reliable services to millions of customers. We are expanding our Power Resilience capability to enhance how power is planned, maintained and improved across our operations. We are looking for talented individuals to join this growing team and help build a coordinated, data-led approach to managing Power Resilience across Thames Water.

The Maintenance Team Leader manages contractor delivery to meet safety, compliance and performance standards, ensuring critical standby power assets are maintained and tested effectively so they are ready to support operations during power disruptions.

As Maintenance Team Leader you will be responsible for overseeing maintenance performance across a diverse portfolio of critical assets, providing operational assurance through site audits and identify opportunities to improve resilience processes and expectations across Thames Water.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a critical area of UK infrastructure and make a meaningful difference to customer outcomes and environmental protection. As the team grows, members will help shape future ways of working and bring their expertise to create lasting impact across Thames Water.

Base location: Location can be flexible for both London or Thames Valley (e.g., Hampton, Beckton, Maple Lodge, Cirencester, Reading, Slough, Swindon & Oxford)

Working pattern or hours: 36 Hours per week (Monday to Friday)

• Contract Management and Delivery Oversight:
  You will oversee contractor performance, ensuring all maintenance activities are delivered to agreed standards, timelines and budgets
• Quality Assurance and Compliance:
  You will implement and monitor quality assurance processes and compliance across contracted works, manage performance reporting and ensure risks are identified, addressed and escalated where necessary
• Stakeholder Engagement and Continuous Improvement:
  You will act as the primary interface between Thames Water supervisors and contractor organisations, ensuring effective information flow and timely issue resolution

• Experience managing contractor delivery within engineering, mechanical or utilities environments
• Experience overseeing planned work, managing budgets and ensuring compliance
• Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and external contractors

The essential criteria to help you succeed in this role is:

• In-depth knowledge of mechanical engineering and maintenance principles
• Strong understanding of management / asset management and quality assurance
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Full UK Driving License.
• IT literacy, including maintenance and contract management systems.

• Offering a salary between £55,000 to £68,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
• Annual Leave: 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Find out more about our benefits and perks (Please note different T&C apply if on secondment)

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

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