As a drinking water technician, you ensure that customers have access to tasty and healthy tap water. You are responsible for the installation, maintenance, and repair of drinking water pipes, drinking water connections, and fire hydrants. A drinking water company manages an extensive network of pipes and connections. To keep this infrastructure in top condition, it relies on energetic drinking water technicians.
What you do
- Maintain and repair water pipes, drinking water connections, and fire hydrants.
- Install new water pipes and drinking water connections.
- Receive new work orders, plans, and instructions via a tablet.
- Set up site signaling, break up paving, and dig trenches and work pits.
- Respond to residents' questions in a customer-friendly manner or check with a colleague/supervisor.
- After the work and inspection by the supervisor, restore the paving to its original state.
- Organize your work autonomously and responsibly, adjusting planning for unexpected problems such as water leaks.
- Work closely with a fixed team of fellow technicians.
Your profile.
- Driving license B.
- Understand and speak fluent Dutch for direct customer contact.
- Be a citizen of the European Economic Area and be able to present a clean criminal record extract.
- Be handy, have technical insight, and be motivated to get started. A specific diploma or specialized knowledge is not required; training and guidance are provided.
- Be physically fit, as the work always takes place outdoors and regularly involves heavier physical labor.
- Be willing to be on call 1 week out of every 8 weeks.
Competencies.
- Collaboration: contribute to a common result in a team or project.
- Responsibility: act in accordance with the organization's interests, values, and standards.
- Customer focus: respond to stakeholders in a friendly, targeted, and correct manner.
- Initiative: take initiative and work on your own development and that of the organization.
- Flexibility: adapt your approach or behavior if the concrete situation requires it.
- Planning and organizing: bring order and structure to the work to be performed, set priorities.
- Diligence: act with attention to quality and aim to prevent errors.
Practical
- Fixed-term contract of 6 months.
- Salary supplemented with meal and eco-vouchers, year-end bonus, holiday pay, 100% reimbursement for public transport and/or bicycle allowance, hospitalization insurance, outpatient cost insurance, and a large number of vacation days.
- Ample training opportunities and a stimulating and pleasant working environment.
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