Maintenance Manager (M&E

Hampton Coal Wharf - TW12 2ES
, Reading
- Kemble Court - RG2 6AD

Job title Maintenance Manager (M&E)  Division Asset Operations & Capital Delivery Location Hampton Coal Wharf - TW12 2ES
, Reading
- Kemble Court - RG2 6AD
Contract type Permanent Full/Part-time Full-time Hours 36 Hours per week Salary Offering a salary between £70,000 to £78,500 per annum, depending on skills and experience. Job grade C Closing date 18/08/2026

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.

As Maintenance Manager you will lead the delivery and quality assurance of maintenance for auxiliary power supplies and associated assets. You will be responsible for ensuring that the auxiliary power systems that keep operational sites running during outages or emergencies are ready to respond when they are needed. You will also work to strengthen resilience today while building internal capability for the future.

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.

Hampton Coal Wharf - TW12 2ES
or Reading
- Kemble Court - RG2 6AD

Hybrid - 36 Hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Key responsibilities:

• Team Leadership and Organisational Capability:
  You will lead, motivate and develop a team of professionals to achieve high performance and support future internal capability development.
• Maintenance Performance and Asset Reliability:
  You will oversee maintenance and quality assurance for auxiliary power supplies and assets, ensuring compliance with standards and regulatory requirements.
• Maintenance Standards and Continuous Improvement:
  You will work with internal and external teams to standardise inspection practices and ensure auxiliary power asset testing and maintenance governance is effective, reliable and compliant.
• Planning, Budget Management and Assurance:
  You will manage planning and budgets, contributing to policy development within the maintenance function.

• Proven experience leading operational/technical teams and delivering outputs to required time, quality and compliance standards with demonstrable experience developing people and team leadership.
• Strong commercial judgement with contractor performance and resource planning experience
• Experience managing compliance, maintenance planning and operational budgets.
• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and external contractors to drive improvement.

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

• Knowledge of maintenance, testing and quality assurance.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Full UK Driving Licence.
• IT literacy, including maintenance management systems.

• Offering a salary between £70,000 and £78,500 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.
• Private Medical Health Care.
• 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&Cs apply if on secondment)

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