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Are you ready to support the delivery of a safe and efficient high voltage maintenance program?
Role Overview
We’re looking for a high voltage specialist to take ownership of our high voltage maintenance program. This is a key role where you will plan and coordinate maintenance activities, work closely with contractors and stakeholders, and ensure issues are resolved quickly and effectively.
You’ll play a vital part in bringing our HV substations up to a great standard by supporting capital investment initiatives, managing both planned and reactive tasks, and providing cross-functional support for our planned, essential and statutory maintenance programs. This will help us maintain compliance and reliability across our assets and high voltage network.
You will also contribute to fault finding, process improvement, and technical reporting ensuring best practice and compliance with statutory requirements.
What you'll do
This role involves planning and scheduling high-voltage (HV) maintenance activities across the network, ensuring that both planned and reactive maintenance tasks are delivered effectively and efficiently.
It requires close liaison with contractors, internal teams, and key stakeholders to support the smooth delivery of maintenance programmes while maintaining compliance with safety standards, operational procedures, and Electricity at Work Regulations.
Responsibilities include diagnosing and resolving issues that arise during maintenance works, identifying and managing follow-on activities to ensure timely completion, and maintaining accurate records and documentation for all HV maintenance activities.
The role also supports the delivery of essential, statutory, and planned maintenance programmes, works closely with procurement and standards teams to ensure best practice and minimum standards are achieved, and carries out safety and quality audits across the HV supply chain and partner organisations
What you'll need
The ideal candidate will be safety conscious, with a strong commitment to compliance and maintaining high standards of health and safety. They will possess excellent stakeholder management skills, enabling them to build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues, contractors, and external partners. Strong problem-solving and diagnostic abilities are essential for identifying and resolving technical issues, alongside excellent organisational skills with the ability to plan, prioritise, and manage workloads effectively.
The role requires clear and confident communication skills, as well as a strong understanding of safe isolation, lock-off, proving dead, and permit-to-work processes. Candidates should hold an HNC in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent qualification.
Desirable experience and qualifications include Authorised Person (AP) or Senior Authorised Person (SAP) status, experience working within water or utility environments, and proficiency in using systems such as Salesforce and Maximo.
A good understanding of health and safety regulations relating to high-voltage operations is also beneficial, together with strong working knowledge of the 18th Edition (BS 7671) Wiring Regulations. Holding the City & Guilds 6037 qualification in High Voltage Systems Operations would be advantageous
Looking out for you
While the work we do is important, we know it’s not the only thing that matters. That’s why we make sure you have everything you need to find a good work-life balance.
You’ll get plenty of time to recharge with 38 days of holiday every year (including public holidays). And you can even buy five more if you need a little extra time. You can also take paid time off to volunteer in your community. When it comes to major life events we have family-friendly policies around adoption, maternity, and parental leave.
And for the everyday? We embrace flexible working. For your future, there’s our pension (the ‘know-what-you’ll-get-when-you-retire’ kind), as well as life assurance.
As for some nice extras? You will participate in a company bonus scheme. Not to mention access to SW Splash – handy rewards that can save you money on holidays, bills, and shopping.
The not-so-small print
This role will be a Grade 7. If you’re new to Scottish Water, you’ll join us on a starting salary of £45,699. Performance-driven pay progression would then allow you to move through the range to a maximum of £56,669.
If you’re interested in this role – or know someone else who might be - we’ll be accepting applications until midnight on the 26th August 2026.
Job offers at Scottish Water are conditional, and will be confirmed on completion of our pre-employment screening, e.g. referencing, criminal record checks, license checks, etc. These checks are conducted on our behalf by a third party. Don’t worry - we’ll ask your permission before starting these checks.
A few final things worth knowing…
Research shows that some people avoid applying for jobs unless they can meet every single criteria. If you’re interested in this job, but don’t tick all the boxes, apply anyway! We hardly ever hire people who can do every part of a job from Day One. Everyone has a learning curve. So don’t rule yourself out!
Let us know if there are any changes we can make to our recruitment process to help you perform at your best. Lots of our people have disabilities or neurodiverse conditions (including some of our recruiters!). We're also aware that some people might be experiencing temporary challenges because of life events, like menopause. We’re very used to making adjustments, so please don’t be afraid to ask.
As part of our commitment to developing a flourishing Scotland, it’s important that all our employees are Scottish taxpayers. If you join us, your home address will need to be in Scotland. If you don’t already live here, you'll need to commit to moving here within your first three months.
Candidates should be aware that a valid UK driving licence is required for driving on Scottish Water business and claiming business mileage expenses.
Please note, Scottish Water takes the safety, health and wellbeing of our employees, colleagues and customers very seriously and as such you may be subject to Drug & Alcohol testing in line with our policy.
Finally (finally!), candidates who haven’t submitted an application in the last 12 months will have their records removed from our recruitment database. You won’t need to do anything. Your data will be automatically deleted.
We’re here to help. Ask us anything at SWRecruitment@ScottishWater.co.uk
