Salary Circa £41,500 + Cash for Cars Allowance
Full time, 37 hours a week / Permanent
Field-based covering the Peterborough area
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office/site. Your base location would be Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough.
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Water Recycling?is at the heart of our?operations.?The key services that we are responsible for are?delivered by our?in-house, highly skilled workforce. We collect and treat the water that customers have used, returning it to the environment via rivers and coastal outlets. Our network includes 76,000 kilometres of sewers which feed over 1,000 water recycling centres. Would you like to be part of a team who are responsible for the safe and sustainable operation and maintenance of our water recycling?assets?
What will you be doing?
Covering the Peterborough area and reporting directly to the Process Science Manager, you will be responsible for delivering wastewater process science and regulatory support and advice to Water Recycling and Bioresources Managers and their teams, on how to maintain compliance and ensure treatment efficiency. This will involve providing reactive and proactive performance improvements, including site visit Audits and Root Cause Analysis. Implementing strategies to exploit the full potential of our infrastructure as well as reducing operational expenditure where possible. You will also be involved in data evaluation and compliance reporting, developing and implementing sampling programmes, as well as spending time coaching and developing our operations teams in their knowledge of treatment processes.
As a valued employee, you'll be entitled to:
- Full private healthcare with no excess
- 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
- A flexible working culture
- Competitive pension scheme - we double-match your contributions up to 6%
- Life Assurance at eight times your salary
- Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
- Bonus Scheme
- Lots of great discounts
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
- Paid time off when you're physically and mentally unwell
- Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.
Duties will include:
- Designing and implementing strategies to fully exploit the potential of the infrastructure and reduce OPEX
- Providing process advice and support to proactively reduce energy and chemical usage
- Developing and implementing risk assessments and action plans
- Designing and implementing strategies to correct adverse performance trends to maintain Final Effluent compliance
- Scientifically leading the prevention and resolution of incidents and non-conformance affecting processes and network infrastructure, with site investigations and Root cause analysis
- Developing and carrying out risk assessments and action plans
- Supporting Operational Managers in handling customer complaints/enquiries
- Develop and implement sampling programmes.
- Measure process performance and interpret data and provide regular reports on compliance and performance
- Lead scientific and regulatory liaison with local Environment Agency
- Providing rotational scientific standby
What does it take to be an Environmental Process Scientist?
- A background in wastewater treatment or educated to at least degree level in a relevant scientific subject
- Strong IT skillset, specifically around data manipulation and data interpretation
- Demonstrable expertise in wastewater treatment collection and as well as sludge treatment would be advantageous
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to influence others
- Proven problem-solving capability
- Stakeholder management experience
- Possesses the skillset to work autonomously as well as cross collaboration with teams
- Analytical mindset
- Full driving license is essential for this role
- Flexible approach to work as there will be a small amount of standby required within this role
Meeting Requirements:
Don't meet every requirement on the job advert? Please still apply! Having a wealth of people from different backgrounds and with different experiences introduces new ways of thinking which transforms how we work. Challenging our thinking and decision-making helps us to continually improve. It also better reflects our region and the customers and communities that we serve every single day. Even if you are not successful for this particular role, your application could open other opportunities.
Closing date: 15th September 2024
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