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Water Treatment and Plant Maintenance Operator

On-site in Salamanca·Full-time·Added 4 days ago (last checked 15 Oct)

Overview

Salary
€34,529 - €38,511 a year
Work mode
On-site, Salamanca
Contract
Permanent contract, full-time hours
Hours
Rotating shifts, including nights
Experience
10+ years
Education
Higher vocational training (FP Grado Superior)

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This job advert was originally written in Spanish.

Requirements

What we're looking for

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS.

Only applications that have the following will be considered:

  • Higher Level Vocational Training in the professional families of Electricity and Electronics, Mechanical Manufacturing, Installation and Maintenance, with a qualification officially recognized in Spain or approved by the competent Spanish Ministry.

  • At least 10 years of verifiable experience performing mechanical maintenance functions for equipment, systems, facilities, etc., in industrial plants of mining facilities with pumping systems.

  • Verifiable experience in handling crane trucks, loader shovels and dump trucks for at least 3 years. This shall be verified by a company certificate, license, operator certificate and/or training accreditation in handling; in all cases, it must be valid.

  • Availability for urgent interventions at the site with a response time of less than forty-five minutes from the emergency notice, ensuring continuity of service and immediate attention to critical incidents. It will be required to certify availability to meet this requirement with a signed responsible declaration.

  • Aptitude regarding the nuclear sector and/or the public sector: the applicant must not have been subject to any disqualification that remains in force at the time the selection process begins, nor to any disciplinary or administrative sanction, or be affected by any other similar circumstance that poses a risk in the nuclear and/or public sector. Additionally, they must possess the necessary functional capacity, both physical and professional (authorizations, certifications, or any other requirement), for the performance of the duties inherent to the position according to the required needs, and must provide a responsible declaration prior to hiring.

Nice to have

EXAMINATION PHASE.

The technical test may include questions of theoretical/practical content related to the position, assessment of reasoning ability, personality type, and/or English level (if required). This test will have a maximum score of 60 points.

MERIT PHASE.

Applications that meet the minimum requirements will be assessed numerically. The maximum score is 40 points and the minimum score to pass the phase is 25 points.

To score in this phase, the information must be duly verified as requested. It will be assessed according to the certification presented (degrees or certificates):

  • Experience in nuclear and/or radioactive facilities of up to 10 years performing functions similar to those indicated (up to 7 points).

The calculation formula will be: 7*X/120 (X = number of full months of verified experience).

  • Experience in cutting and welding work on tanks, pipes, and other industrial elements of up to 6 years in industrial maintenance companies, industrial plants or mines (up to 5 points).

The calculation formula will be: 5*X/72 (X = number of full months of verified experience).

  • Verifiable preventive training for the position of Loader Shovel and dump truck operator according to ITC 02.1.02 mining (up to 4 points, 2 points for each training).

  • Verifiable training as a transport machinery, truck and tipper operator, and/or safe driving and handling of 1B type elevating platforms (up to 4 points, 2 points for each training).

  • Verifiable training in confined spaces and/or work at heights (up to 2 points, 1 point for each training)

  • Verifiable training in radiological protection (up to 2 points, 1 point for every 4 hours of training)

  • Verifiable training in Occupational Risk Prevention, minimum 50 hours (up to 1 point)

  • Individual interview (up to 15 points); the following aspects will be valued:

  • Adequacy of knowledge, professional experience, and career path in relation to the functions assigned to the position.

  • Required general competencies.

  • Candidate motivation and expected adaptation to the ENUSA professional environment.

Applicants with a degree of disability equal to or greater than 33% will be assigned 5 additional points to the score they have obtained after the application of the scale, not exceeding in any case the maximum total of 40 points.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Salary: 34,528.56-38,510.82 gross/year depending on the experience provided.

Contract: Permanent.

The role

ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas S.A.S.M.E. needs to fill a position at its Saelices El Chico (Salamanca) workplace, reporting to the Water Treatment, Plant Engineering and Maintenance Area, under the direction of the Environmental Business Division, with the following characteristics:

Provide direct support to the manager in performing various tasks to allow for the correct progress of the project, complying with the required quality and safety conditions and in accordance with established procedures.

What you'll do

  • Coordinate the work team and schedule activities when necessary.

  • Calibrate and program equipment.

  • Advise other team members on the performance of certain tasks.

  • Repair industrial equipment for electronic, mechanical or electrical failures, as well as water pumping and treatment systems.

  • Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on fire protection equipment and systems.

  • Interpret blueprints, sketches and technical documentation associated with the manufacturing, disassembly and machining of parts and components.

  • Verify the correct operation of plant control systems and surveillance and communications systems.

How you'll work

Location: ENUSA's CT in Saelices el Chico (Salamanca).

Schedule: According to the collective agreement of the Saelices el Chico C.T.

Shift: Rotating morning, afternoon, and night shifts.

HOW TO VERIFY MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND MERITS?

  • Updated Curriculum Vitae, in which all activities linked to the offered position performed by the applicant are clearly and detailedly specified, the exact periods in which they were carried out, and the jobs, organizations, and companies in which they were developed, as well as the training acquired.

  • Employment history (Vida laboral). In all cases, its provision will be necessary. In the case of mutualists, members of the Armed Forces, foreign professional stay, self-employed, etc., whose professional experience does not appear in the employment history, they must verify it with an updated certificate of services rendered issued by the competent unit (digitally signed or containing the company stamp and signature, name, and position of the person issuing it).

  • Experience*: will be valued through company certificate/s and/or employment history. The certificate must be digitally signed or contain the company stamp and signature, name, and position of the company person issuing it, indicating the functions developed and the start date (day, month, and year) and, if applicable, the end of the contract (day, month, and year). This certificate will not be required, when it must be issued by ENUSA, for personnel belonging or having belonged to this company.

  • University academic degree or Vocational Training**officially recognized regulated qualification in Spain. A degree or certificate of payment of degree fees is required, through the presentation of a photocopy of the degree required in the call, proof of having paid the fees for its issuance, or an official document certifying that studies were completed before the deadline of the call. Failure to present this will result in disqualification.

  • Additional Training/Knowledge*: is accredited through training titles, academic certificates, or company certificates where the duration in hours, months, or credits is clearly reflected and, if indicated by the offer.

  • Others*: if necessary, ENUSA may request in the announcement other additional ways to verify any minimum requirement or merits.

  • Responsible declaration: the person who obtains the position must provide, prior to hiring, a responsible declaration stating they have not been dismissed, through disciplinary proceedings, from the service of any of the Public Administrations or the constitutional or statutory bodies of the Autonomous Communities, nor be under absolute or special disqualification for the performance of public employment. Applicants whose nationality is not Spanish must likewise accredit that they are not disqualified or in an equivalent situation, nor have been subject to disciplinary or equivalent sanction that prevents, in their State, access to public employment under the same terms. Falsity or deception in said declaration will have the legal and/or administrative consequences that arise and will result in the loss of the right to the selection of their candidacy.

*Personnel belonging or having belonged to ENUSA will be exempt from presenting the accreditation of additional training managed by ENUSA, as well as the experience acquired at ENUSA.

**For degrees obtained abroad. Applicants with degrees obtained abroad must be in possession of the corresponding recognition credential, issued by the competent Spanish Ministry.

At any time during the process, all documentation presented may be requested by ENUSA in its original version for verification. Falsity of the documentation provided will result, without option for appeal, in immediate expulsion from the selection process.

The submission of the candidacy entails the full, express, and unconditional acceptance of the entirety of the content of these bases, as well as the conditions, without any qualification, reservation, opposition, or challenge being appropriate regarding them.

Hiring process

All our selection processes are based on the principles of free competition, equality, merit and ability, publicity, transparency, and inclusion of a gender perspective.

Our offers will appear published at Trabaja con nosotros - Enusa and at Administracion.gob.es

IMPORTANT: To participate in the selection processes, it is necessary to complete these two points within the deadline:

  • Register on the job portal at Trabaja con nosotros - Enusa, accept the "Privacy Policy" and register for the job offer in which you wish to participate.

  • Submit the complete documentation requested in a single shipment in a compressed folder/ "zip" or "rar" folder to the address seleccion@enusa.es indicating in the subject line the Reference of the position as indicated in the ENUSA job portal. Minimum requirements, professional merits, and detailed CV that have not been documented before the deadline will not be valued. Only one vacancy may be applied for per email.

Failure to comply with either of these two points will be grounds for disqualification.

APPLICATION PERIOD FOR THE OFFER AND SUBMISSION OF ALL DOCUMENTATION until the next 27th day of October 2026 at 23:59 Hours. The process reference is 861-OPTAYM.

Process phases.

The process consists of three phases, during which a maximum of 100 points will be assigned. These phases are:

  • Minimum requirements: in this phase no points are assigned. Failure to meet any of the requirements specified in the announcement will be grounds for disqualification.

  • Examination: maximum score 60 points.

  • Merit: maximum score 40 points.

  1. Minimum requirements.

    Once the deadline for registration in the offer and submission of documentation has ended, the correct registration in the vacancy in the offer published on the Enusa Web will be verified, and the review of the documentation provided will proceed, all of it correctly in time and form.

    In case a language level is required, an internal test will be carried out for those candidacies that meet all the requested minimum requirements.

    Before the publication of the results, the participant's identification number will be sent. This will allow, anonymously, them to verify the status of their candidacy in the publication of the offer on the ENUSA web for each of the phases. In case of disqualification, the reason will be reflected.

  2. Examination Phase - maximum 60 points

This phase consists of:

  • Technical test, consisting of multiple-choice and development questions related to the functions of the position. A minimum of 50% must be obtained to pass.

  • Psychotechnical tests, consisting of reasoning and personality tests. The average score of these tests must exceed the minimum of 30%.

  • Language level: in case it is a minimum requirement, the score obtained will be valued.

Not reaching the minimum in some of the tests will be grounds for disqualification.

A written language test will be carried out at the same time as the psychotechnical tests, and an oral test will be conducted in case the rest of the results of the examination phase are passed.

  1. Merit Phase (Concurso) - maximum 40 points

    This phase will consist of two tests, assessment of merits and an individual interview, which will only be carried out for those who pass the examination phase. The merit phase will be eliminatory; people must not only have a minimum score of 25 points, but must also be considered suitable for the position by the selection body.

    To score in this phase, the information requested in the announcement must be duly accredited and will be valued according to the certifications presented (titles or certificates).

    Applicants with a degree of disability equal to or greater than 33% will be assigned 5 additional points to the score they have obtained after the application of the scale, not exceeding in any case the total maximum of 40 points. The Technical Medical Report issued by the Technical Assessment Body that determined the degree of disability must be attached.

    Resolution of the process.

    Once the examination-merit process is finished, the resolution of the process will be published on the ENUSA website, identifying the candidacy/ies that have passed the process. The vacancy will be offered to the candidacy with the best score, after the summation of the two phases, and after medical fitness for the position. In case of resignation, the vacancy will pass to the next candidacy with the best score.

    Those candidacies that pass the examination-merit process, but have not been awarded the called position, may be included in the Employment Pool, where temporary vacancies with similar characteristics may be offered to them, provided that, in accordance with current regulations, they can join the offered contract modality.

    In case of a tie in points.

    For the assignment of positions, attention will be paid to the order of priority established based on the global score obtained by those who pass all the detailed phases of the process.

    In the event of equal scores, the following tie-breaking criteria will be taken into account, in the order indicated:

    1. Higher total score in the testing phase (psychotechnical test and technical test).

    2. Higher score in the curricular and competency interview.

    3. Higher score in the merit phase.

About Enusa Industrias Avanzadas

Enusa Industrias Avanzadas, S.A., S.M.E. is a Spanish state-owned nuclear energy company, 60% held by the Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI) under the Ministry of Finance and 40% by CIEMAT under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Its core nuclear business concentrates on the first part of the fuel cycle, which it commercializes both nationally and internationally, and the group also runs an environmental line under the Emgrisa brand, leading innovative environmental projects such as the Saelices el Chico environmental recovery centre.

Industry
Nuclear Energy
Website
enusa.es

Good to know if you are moving

  • The company states it is committed to quality employment in a growing sector and values diversity of talents and experiences.
  • Its corporate address is c/ Santiago Rusiñol, 12, 28040 Madrid, and it operates major sites including the Juzbado fuel fabrication plant and the Saelices environmental recovery centre.
  • Current openings in Spain span nuclear engineering, radiological protection laboratory analysis, decommissioning and recovery, water treatment and maintenance, and factory administration.
  • The group also operates an environmental business line under the Emgrisa brand, broadening roles beyond the nuclear fuel cycle.

In their own words

Additional information

Claim A claim period will be opened for one working day from the date of publication of the results of each of the phases. Such claims must be addressed to the following email address, seleccion@enusa.es indicating in the subject line "reclamación + the process reference name" and indicating in the body of the message the identifying data of the person (Name/Surnames and DNI) and the reason for the claim, attaching in its case all files/proofs of said claim.

Correction: ENUSA reserves the right to request clarifications or corrections regarding the documents that have been provided by the applicants. The period of time in which this request may be answered will be two working days from the sending of the request by the company.

Selection body: Candidacies will be valued internally by 2 members of the People Directorate and between 1 or 2 members of the requesting directorate. In the event of a family or personal link existing between any of the members of the selection body and any of the candidates, the member of the selection body will be obliged to inform the People Directorate of the link. The order, if a member of the contracting organization is to be replaced, would be the following: 1st) the immediate superior, 2nd) another head of the Directorate, and 3rd) another member of the People Directorate. In the event that a member of the selection body belonging to the Directorate managing the selection process is affected, another person from the same Directorate will be designated.

MAXIMUM PERIOD FOR POSITION COVERAGE: December 2026.

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