Salary: Circa £40,000 depending on skills and experience + Cash for Cars Allowance
Full time / 37 hours per week / Permanent
Location: Colchester based with travel to Huntingdon
Due to the nature of this role, you'll have the opportunity to work from home or from our other offices / sites on occasion. The team you will be managing will be based in the Colchester region but there will be expectations to also attend the Central Laboratory in Huntingdon at least once a week.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Sampling Operations Manager to join the team based in Colchester.
As a valued employee you'll be entitled to:
??-Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
- Personal private health care
- Annual bonus scheme
- 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
- Life Cover at 8x your salary
- Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
- Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
- Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks
- 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.
What will you be doing?
Reporting to the Regional Sampling Manager, you'll manage a team of Laboratory Samplers who are travelling the Anglian Water Region to collect regulatory and operational, clean water and environmental samples.
You'll manage the day to day workloads and operations to ensure the team are providing a timely, flexible and accurate service to our customers, whilst delivering sustainable operations through efficiency, lean methodology and innovative thinking.
Delivering a high quality service to stakeholders will be at the forefront of your thinking. You'll ensure methods and procedures are maintained and followed, ensure availability of supplies and services and ensure Service Level Agreements are adhered to.
Working closely with the Regional Sampling Manager and Senior Laboratory Operations Manager you'll develop your own and your team's potential, providing opportunities and promoting a positive working environment, carrying out 1:1 meetings and Personal Development Reviews.
You'll be required to participate in an operational management rota and standby.
What do you need?
You should have a thorough understanding of the sampling programmes, along with the ability to analyse, compare, interpret and make decisions based on data.
It's ideal if you have worked in a regulated environment and have experience of managing a team, you'll need the ability to identify development needs, seeking and providing opportunities.
It's essential that you can work to deadlines, deliver plans and implement them effectively.
It's ideal if you have a degree in a scientific field and you should hold or be working towards Chartered Status.
Working at Anglian Water
We are passionate and committed to the learning and development of our people making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We also take Health and Safety very seriously in everything that we do.
There will be some travel involved to our different office locations around the area we serve.
Closing Date: 18th September 2024
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