Drainage Industry Jobs in Oxfordshire

Drainage industry jobs in the Oxfordshire area

Are you on the hunt for an exciting and challenging new role in the Oxfordshire area, leading to long-term career development, stability and flexibility? If so, Lanes Group, the UK’s largest privately owned specialist drainage contractor, has a range of drainage industry jobs in Oxfordshire, available to enthusiastic and skilled professionals.

Our Kidlington office is a key part of the local network that employs more than 900 wastewater engineers and support staff working on behalf of Thames Water. 

Though our work for Thames Water is headquartered at our Slough utility hub, our satellite offices play a crucial role in serving the utility company’s 15 million customers in the South East.

Our teams in the region operate more than 350 specialist drainage vehicles, tackling more than 1,000 maintenance jobs every day on the largest and most complex utilities contract in the UK.

We’re always looking for talented professionals with the right attitude to join our team in Kidlington and help us continue our work in helping customers in need across Oxfordshire. 

Browse our Oxfordshire drainage jobs below:
 

Our Kidlington operating centre employs people in drainage jobs from all over the region, including: 

• Oxford
• Bicester
• Abingdon
• Banbury
• Didcot
• Witney
• Barking
• Carterton

Who we employ at the Kidlington operating centre

HGV driver/operators

We offer a wide range of HGV driver/operator job vacancies in Oxfordshire, offering much more variety than your typical professional driving role. 

Operators are able to get directly involved in the drainage and engineering work itself, using the state-of-the-art equipment mounted on our distinctive Lanes vehicles. You may find yourself visiting customers at home, at business premises or even sewage treatment plants.

Have no experience in the drainage industry? Don’t worry - we accept applications from professional drivers with backgrounds in other sectors, providing all the training you need to succeed in the role.

Roles include:

• Tanker drivers
• HGV drivers
• Jet vac operators

Engineers

Lanes Group’s drainage engineers have a vital role in our work in Kidlington, imaging, repairing and unblocking drains and sewers of all shapes and sizes.

As well as giving you the opportunity to work with some of the most sophisticated technology in the industry, you will be the first person to reassure our customers in their time of need and help them reduce the stress and disruption felt as a result of their emergency.

Roles include:

• CCTV drainage engineers and assistants
• Drainage engineers and assistants
• Jetting engineers and assistants

Office-based

We couldn’t tackle 1,000 maintenance jobs from our Slough hub alone without the support of our highly organised office-based staff, who keep our customers in the loop and provide our drainage engineers with all the information they need to do their jobs effectively.

If you have an aptitude for problem-solving, and enjoy building a rapport with colleagues and customers, an office-based position at Lanes could be perfect for you.

Roles include:

• Depot leads
• Depot managers
• Administrators
• Operations managers
• Field support workers and technical specialists
• Transport leads​​​

If you’re looking for a drainage job in Oxfordshire, take a look at our job search function below

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Our Kidlington depot offers a highly engaging work environment in which no two days are ever the same, and where each member of the team is valued for their unique expertise. 

Learn more about some of our employees working at the Kidlington depot and how working for Lanes has changed their lives. Antony McCartney turned his life around, going from rough sleeper to drainage engineer with Lanes, while Daryl Eastman swapped high cuisine for sewer cleaning!