Location
Flexible locations across London or Thames Valley including Hampton, Beckton, Maple Lodge, Cirencester, Reading, Slough, Swindon & Oxford. Base location: Beckton.

Hours
36 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Salary
£55,000 to £68,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
Car allowance of £4,500 per annum.

About the Role
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 strengthen how power is planned, maintained, and enhanced across our operations. As a Battery and Generator Maintenance Team Leader, you will support contractor delivery to meet safety, compliance, and performance standards, ensuring critical standby power assets are maintained and tested effectively to support operations during power disruptions.

You will oversee maintenance performance across a diverse portfolio of critical assets, provide operational assurance through site audits, and identify opportunities to enhance resilience processes and ways of working across Thames Water. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a vital area of UK infrastructure and make a meaningful difference to customer outcomes and environmental protection.

As the team grows, you will play an important role in shaping future ways of working and bringing your expertise to create lasting positive impact across Thames Water.

Key Responsibilities
- Oversee contractor performance ensuring maintenance activities meet agreed standards, timelines, and budgets.
- Implement and monitor quality assurance processes and compliance across contracted works.
- Manage performance reporting and ensure risks are identified, addressed, and escalated as necessary.
- Act as the primary interface between Thames Water supervisors and contractor organisations to support effective communication and timely resolution of issues.
- Encourage continuous improvement in resilience processes and ways of working.

Benefits
26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with length of service (plus bank holidays).
Performance-related pay plan linked to company performance measures and targets.
Generous pension scheme through AON.
Access to a wide range of health, wellbeing, and financial benefits including annual health MOTs, physiotherapy, counselling, Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers, and life assurance.
Flexible working arrangements and meaningful career opportunities.
Supportive and inclusive working environment committed to diversity.

Experience
- Managing contractor delivery within engineering, mechanical, or utilities environments.
- Overseeing planned work, managing budgets, and ensuring compliance.
- Coordinating cross-functional teams and external contractors while building strong working relationships.

About you
- In-depth knowledge of mechanical engineering and maintenance principles.
- Strong understanding of management, asset management, and quality assurance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- IT literate, including experience with maintenance and contract management systems.
- Full UK Driving Licence.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications in mechanical engineering or related disciplines are desirable but not explicitly stated. Essential criteria focus on experience, skills, and licence requirements.