Network Asset Engineer (Single Skilled Mechanical)

Location: North Manchester / Pennine Region

Salary: £40,232

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full Time, 37 Hours Per Week

Work Type: Onsite

Help Maintain Critical Wastewater Infrastructure Across the North West

At United Utilities, our purpose is to deliver great water for a stronger, greener and healthier North West. Every day, we provide essential water and wastewater services to millions of customers while protecting the environment and supporting the communities we serve.

We're looking for a skilled and motivated Network Asset Engineer (Single Skilled Mechanical) to join our Wastewater Network team focussing on the North Manchester / Pennine region.

This is an exciting opportunity for a mechanically qualified engineer to play a key role in maintaining and improving the performance of critical wastewater assets, helping to protect the environment, prevent flooding incidents and ensure reliable services for communities across the region.

If you enjoy fault finding, problem solving and working hands-on with a wide variety of equipment, this could be the perfect opportunity to further your engineering career within one of the UK's leading utility companies.

The Role

As a Network Asset Engineer, you'll deliver an effective and efficient mechanical maintenance service across a range of Wastewater Network assets, including pumping stations, powered screens and detention tanks.

You'll be responsible for undertaking reactive, planned and proactive maintenance activities, identifying the root causes of asset failures and implementing solutions that improve reliability and operational performance.

Working closely with operational teams, contractors and stakeholders, you'll help ensure wastewater assets continue to operate safely, efficiently and in compliance with all regulatory requirements.

What You'll Be Doing

• Carrying out planned, reactive and proactive mechanical maintenance activities across wastewater network assets.
• Investigating equipment failures and conducting root cause analysis to identify permanent solutions.
• Responding to alarms, customer reports and operational incidents as part of the first-line response team.
• Supporting the reliability and availability of pumping stations, powered screens, detention tanks and associated mechanical assets.
• Assisting with the review and optimisation of telemetry alarm settings.
• Identifying follow-on work and capital investment requirements through Problem Notes and Plant Failure Reports.
• Working with Network Asset Controllers and operational teams to ensure asset records remain accurate and up to date.
• Ensuring all maintenance activities and asset information are accurately recorded within company systems.
• Supporting compliance with Environmental Agency permit requirements and company operational standards.
• Proactively identifying ways to reduce repeat failures, pollution incidents and flooding events.
• Acting as Person Controlling the Works (PCW) for mechanical activities carried out by framework contractors.
• Managing and coordinating contractor activities to ensure work is completed safely, on time and within budget.
• Supporting the review of Site Contingency Plans and ensuring critical spare parts remain available.
• Promoting a positive health and safety culture and ensuring full compliance with company policies and procedures.