Ready for a role where every day is different?

We’re on the lookout for a skilled Electrical / Mechanical Maintenance Technician to play a crucial role in keeping our water treatment works, booster sites, reservoirs, and towers running smoothly. If you love problem-solving, hands-on technical work, and collaborating with a talented team, this could be the perfect fit.

Why join us?
This isn’t just about fixing things—it’s about making a real impact on the quality and reliability of water supply in the region. From climbing water towers to diagnosing faults in electrical panels, your expertise will keep vital systems running.

A Day in the Life of a Production Technician where no two days are the same:

• Climb water towers for inspections

• Diagnose and repairing a pump failure

• Investigate an electrical fault inside a control panel

• Carry out routine calibrations on critical equipment

• Take a reservoir out of supply for essential maintenance

• Expect a mix of planned work and unexpected challenges—it keeps things exciting!

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Performing electrical & mechanical fault-finding, repairs, and maintenance on critical water treatment infrastructure.

• Interrogating PLC systems and getting hands-on with complex treatment processes.

• Conducting planned and preventative maintenance to reduce breakdowns and improve efficiency.

• Diagnosing and troubleshooting faults to keep downtime to a minimum.

• Collaborating with the production team and other departments to ensure seamless operations.

• Ensuring compliance with water quality and health & safety regulations.

What We’re Looking For:

• City and Guilds Electrical Installation Level 3 or equivalent.

• Proven experience in a maintenance engineering role.

• Strong electrical and/or mechanical fault-finding and diagnostic skills

• Knowledge of PLCs, motors, mechanical/control systems, and the ability to interpret electrical schematic or pneumatic/PID/Engineering drawings.

• Understanding of health & safety regulations.

• A positive, adaptable attitude as you’ll be tackling new challenges daily

Location: Folkestone

Advert Closing Date: 1/4/26

Base Salary: £40,137 + Flex Allowance: £4,884

Standby: 1 in 9 = £4,269

Benefits:

• Competitive salary dependant on skills and experience

• Company Van

• Operational hours: 08:00am - 16:00pm (Mon - Thurs) 08:00am - 15:30pm (Friday)

• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.

• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.

• Annual leave from 23-27 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.

• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.

• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)

• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.

• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.

• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.

• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets and on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme.

• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.

• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.