Desilt Engineer / Cabler
About you:
We are seeking a Desilt Engineer to join our build team, who will be responsible for operating van-mounted jetting equipment to cover a wide range of drainage related issues across our sites. If you are a competent desilting engineer, we would love to hear from you!
The Role:
As a competent desilting engineer, you will be using your skills in van-mounted jetting equipment to support the build team in ensuring any blockages, emergency works, and cleaning ducts are completed in the tight deadlines to enable the connections to homes and completed within the time frames of customer installations.
This role is 70% night shift work, start and finish times do vary.
Day to day duties:
- Ensuring the vehicle is maintained, remains in a clean roadworthy condition both internally and externally and that the vehicle and onboard equipment are operated in a professional manner.
- Maintaining and ensuring the functionality of our underground infrastructure. This includes clearing underground conduits, ducts and trenches of silt, dirt, debris and any other materials to avoid any obstructions to the installation of our cables.
- Responsible for the rodding blockages, dig out of silt boxes, repairs and maintenance of ducts, including roping the sections for cable installations.
- Working in collaboration with the installation, build support and other teams to identify issues which cause obstructions and be proactive in resolving issues, taking relevant photographic evidence and using A55 process (for Openreach) when a desilt fails or is unable to be completed.
- Working in accordance with permits required, such as within the time periods, the activities provided on the permit, and any reinstatements.
- Responsible for ensuring work sites are set up in accordance with NRSWA and work confidently within Chapter 8 regulations and The Red Book (Traffic Safety Measure and Signs for Road Works and temporary solutions).
- Working safely in accordance with our health and safety policy at all times and reporting internally to the H&S team when needed.
- Carry out risk assessments and method statements and dynamic risk assessments prior to commencing work and recording these on the IAuditor System.
- Be available to work shift within 24 hour period as directed by line manager.
Skills and Experience:
- Experience with high-pressure jetting equipment, and different scenarios across commercial sites
- Experience in rodding and roping of ducts and use of hydrants
- Experience of seeing solutions to challenges with desilting
- Solid experience in setting up road traffic sites, with excellent knowledge of NRSWA and Chapter 8 of the Red Book issued by the department of transport
- Good working knowledge of BT PIA Network
- Solid experience of working in compliance with road permits
- Experience of maintaining vehicles and comply with safety checks
- Working collaboratively with cables and civils contractors to get the job done
- Full UK Driving Licence with less than 6 points
Qualifications:
- GCSEs or equivalent in Mathematics, English and IT or Science ideally Grade 4 or above
- High pressure water jetting certificate
- CSCS Card
- SWQA 01 – Sign, Lighting and Guarding
- PIA – S007, up to 25mm DIA subduct & cable installation
- Smart Awards SA002, Underground Safety
- K008, Hand Rodding in the UG network
- WJA – Water Jetting Safety Awareness
- Confined Space Certificate
Desirable:
- NRSWA Streetworks Unit 2
- Manual Handling
- Asbestos Awareness
- Accident, Incident and Near miss reporting
Why Trooli:
At Trooli, we are passionate about innovation and excellence. We offer a dynamic work environment where you can make a significant impact on our growth and services. You’ll be joining a forward-thinking team that values collaboration and a can-do attitude. We also offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.
At Trooli we work hard to create an inclusive, collaborative, and rewarding environment where you are encouraged to make a difference and achieve great things. We welcome applicants who struggle to apply online to contact for a chat or email us directly to recruitment@trooli.com. We will make any reasonable adjustments to working environments to ensure all employees are included and can work safely.
- Department
- South East Build
- Locations
- Multiple locations
- Yearly salary
- 23,000 - 28,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
Benefits
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Company Pension
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Life Assurance
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25 days holiday, plus Bank holidays
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Employee referral scheme
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Employee Discount
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Company sick pay after qualifying period
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Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after qualifying period
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Free on site parking
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Cycle to work scheme
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Employee Assistance Programme
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On-going professional development and training
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Eyecare Vouchers
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Discounted Cinema Tickets
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Wellbeing Initiatives
Workplace & Culture
Our journey began in 2002, when a group of visionaries came together because they believe in providing a faster and more reliable broadband to rural communities. This defines who we are, an innovative and forward-thinking company who are not afraid to think outside of the box.
We are committed to providing an outstanding service through our relationships which starts with our employees who set us apart from others in our industry, with their passion and can-do attitude, skills and knowledge to deliver quality and reliability to our customers.
We offer a dynamic and inclusive work environment, where you are encouraged to make a difference and achieve great things, if this is you, please take time to look at our open vacancies.
About Trooli
Here at Trooli, we’re on a mission to banish buffering, vanish video call embarrassment and clear up those “up to” speed claims that give broadband a bad name.
How? By expanding our new, guaranteed, ultrafast, full fibre broadband speeds to as many communities as possible across Kent, East Sussex and beyond.
Like what you see? Here’s a few more reasons why you should get in touch…
- We’re passionate about growth
In two years we’ve passed 200,000 premises, grown from 10 to over 250 staff and become one of the most respected and exciting altnets in the industry – and that’s just the start.
- We’re passionate about our people
At the heart of our culture is a belief that a company is more than politics and processes and our high staff retention rate is a sign that life at Trooli is that bit brighter than the norm. Our people are the heartbeat of our success and we’re committed to helping them grow alongside our network.
- We’re passionate about our customers
Wouldn’t it be nice for a network to be independent of Openreach and fully able to focus on it’s customers? Well, welcome to Trooli and with our excellent Trustpilot rating it’s clear we’re doing something right.
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