Field Engineer

We are Uisce Éireann. Every day, we are responsible for the delivery of secure, safe, and sustainable water services for the people of Ireland. As Ireland’s national regulated water utility, our vision is a sustainable Ireland where water is respected and protected, for the planet and all the lives it supports.

Our purpose at Uisce Éireann is to rise to the challenge of delivering transformative water services that enable communities to thrive. That means we are proud to take on the responsibility of protecting our water supply and passing on a safe and secure water system to a rapidly growing population and empowering Ireland’s social and economic growth. 

So, we’re passionate about helping our people to do the best work of their lives, to enable them to make a positive difference to communities all over Ireland. Our aim is to attract and develop talented and skilled people with diverse backgrounds and an evolving range of expertise and insight. We believe that such a strong workforce will help us achieve our goals and allow us to continue investing in, and advancing, Ireland’s water services. 

The Role:

Customer Operations develop, deliver and support excellent customer experience and service to both domestic and non-domestic customers within a regulated industry. Customer Operations is responsible for managing the customer relationship with the Customer Contact Centre, ensuring timely and accurate customer billing services and effectively implementing the Uisce Éireann customer strategy.

Connections and Developer Services (CDS) are responsible for the customer engagement and stakeholder relationship management of all connections to the Uisce Éireann network. The CDS team manage the customer journey from development concept design, statutory planning process, pre-connection, technical design, site quality assurance, vesting of new asset and final connection and metering, including developing commercial/technical customer agreements, and managing customer funding in adherence to all technical standards, connection charging policy and governance requirements. CDS are responsible for delivering a highly effective customer service, including reviewing, and implementing solutions to meet changing customer needs. Collaboration with several key business partners is essential for the successful delivery of connections on behalf of the customer.

Reporting into the Senior Field Engineer, The Field Engineer will be responsible carrying out site visits for non-standard new Connections applications, performing site assessments, and creating Work Orders for non-standard new connections within a given region. The role holder will work closely with 3rd parties assigned to work in the field ensuring the delivery of onsite connections services. The Field Engineer will also support the delivery of connections-related network reinforcement schemes driven by connections demand, working with counterparts from Capital Delivery, Local Authorities, or 3rd party service providers.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide excellent customer experience through the end-to-end connections process. 
• Monitor incoming site inspection requests in relation to non-standard New Connection applications
• Assess plans received with customer applications for further technical investigations e.g. future inspection of site
• Liaise with Customer team in arrangement of site visits
• Conduct site assessments in accordance with Uisce Éireann Health and Safety Policy and Standards, and input requirement into Work Order
• Carry out technical and field assessment of the New Connections application as maybe required
• Ensure compliance with New Connection Standards and Policies in field work
• Document results of inspections and approve/close Work Order as applicable
• Liaise with Senior/ Design Engineer in relation to any identified technical requirements for Work Orders
• Support the delivery of network development work when the need for new connections warrants expansion and reinforcement, working closely with the Local Authorities, Capital Delivery and/or 3rd party delivery partners
• Perform adoption inspections and testing as necessary
• Liaise with Key Account Management as required to gather all relevant customer information where attending site visit
• Ensure provision of new/updated asset data to systems or the Asset Information team for update in corporate repositories
• Ensure any relevant customer and premise information gets recorded in GIS systems for multiple premise applications.
• Contribute to the development of business processes/ procedures as may be required
• Contribute to achieving the objectives and targets of the Customer Operations Business plans
• Provide support to the Connections & Developer Services senior management team as required
• Perform other such duties in relation to work and Customer Operations as Uisce Éireann may reasonably require

General Duties and Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with key internal stakeholders across the Uisce Éireann business
• Responsible for promoting and delivering health and safety commitments across Uisce Éireann and its supply chain, reinforcing positive behaviours and delivering health and safety objectives and requirements to the highest industry standards. 
• Support the delivery of the Uisce Éireann Transformation Programme, driving results required within the Directorate and supporting organisation-wide objectives.
• Other duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Third level qualification in Engineering, or a related degree, with at least 3 years’ experience working in connections
• A minimum of 3 years Experience in the water, utilities or similar industries is desirable and or relevant expereince 
• Experience managing a team, with strong people, change management and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to develop and maintain effective effective partnerships with key stakeholders internally and externally 
• Proven track record with dealing with complex issues, proactively and in a timely fashion along with the ability to communicate information to others
• Highly motivated individual, working to the highest professional standards and with proven ability to deliver results within a team. 
• Strong analytical skills and ability to identify and analyse problems and potential improvements, and propose and implement solutions
• Demonstrate adaptability and the ability to change focus and direction in line with business strategy and requirements
• Proactively identifying new areas of improvement and using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job

Grade and Salary

E ( €48,653 -€72,979)

*Please be advised that if successful you will be placed on the salary range based on your skills and experience. Please note the Market reference point (midpoint) of the range is generally the upper end of the offer where someone is deemed to be fully competent to take on the duties of the role, and leaves room for the employee to progress through the pay range as their experience develops further

Uisce Éireann is an equal opportunities employer

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive place of work and have a robust strategy and framework called ibelong to enable this. We are an equal opportunity employer and through our recruitment process we welcome and encourage applications from interested and suitably qualified individuals regardless of gender, age, racial or ethnic origin, membership of the traveller community, religion or beliefs, family or civil status, sexual orientation/gender identity or disability.

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