Catchment to Coast Advisor - Bathing Water and Shellfish

Anglian Water Services Ltd; Wickham Skeith; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water services company in Wickham Skeith seeks a Catchment to Coast Advisor to manage water quality for tourism and shellfish economies. This role involves supporting environmental obligations, investigating water quality failures, and working with various stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a degree and expertise in water recycling operations, and communication skills. Benefits include a competitive pension, healthcare, flexible leave policies, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Private healthcare

Annual bonus scheme

Volunteer opportunities

26 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Qualifications

• Degree educated with experience in collaborative working.
• Knowledgeable in Water Recycling operations and public health risk.
• Understanding of Bathing Water and Shellfish Water Regulations.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of coastal water environmental obligations.
• Investigate water quality failures and establish sources of pollution.
• Lead project work with contractors and stakeholders.

Skills

Collaborative working

Programme and project management

Water Recycling operations knowledge

Communication and engagement

Facilitating meetings

Strategic thinking

Education

Degree

Job description

The Catchment to Coast Advisor has a key role in supporting tourism and shellfish related economic growth. As a specialist in Water Recycling Public Health Risk Management, the post holder will work within the Catchment to Coast team to enhance Anglian Water's coastal and inland water quality for both bathing and shell fisheries.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of coastal water environmental and investment obligations, including the management of third-party contractors and providing support to Asset Delivery Planning teams to ensure that capital solutions are sufficient to meet regulatory and business needs.
• Investigate water quality failures at a bathing water and shellfish beds to establish the sources of bacteriological loading, utilising the catchment based approach.
• Creating and delivering compliance action plans to address environmental performance risks identified by the impact assessment work, and compiling management information to make capital investment recommendations to governance and assurance committees.
• Lead on focused project work with contractors, external technical experts, the Environment Agency and other stakeholders to devise investigation programmes to establish the root cause of bacterial pollution at bathing and shellfish coastal waters, including new and emerging areas of science such as nutrient loading risk.
• Support with the development of the bathing and shellfish water public health risk management strategy.
• Act as a point of contact for regulators at a regional level with regards to public health risk for bathing and shellfish waters.
• Represent Anglian Water at external meetings with senior regulators and other senior stakeholders such as local government leaders, MPs etc.
• Play a leading role in the Anglian Water in solution development, appraisal, challenge and preferred option for proposed capital schemes of coastal assets.
• Work with other business streams and enabling functions to work collaboratively towards common and aligned goals.
• Provide specialist technical expertise and own the development of the bathing and shellfish waters future Water Industry business plans including engagement with the Environment Agency.

Qualifications

• Degree Educated
• Experience of successful collaborative working
• Programme and project management experience
• Specialist knowledge of Water Recycling operations and their public health risk
• An understanding of Bathing Water and Shellfish Water Regulations
• An understanding of coastal hydraulics and marine modelling
• Experience of successfully representing the organisation externally at a senior level
• Excellent communication and engagement skills
• Ability to facilitate meetings with a variety of stakeholders
• Confident in the delivery and receipt of difficult messages
• Excellent organisational and record keeping skills
• Ability to adapt, challenge and change
• Proactive, with the ability to think strategically

Benefits

• A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Private healthcare for your peace of mind
• An annual bonus scheme
• The opportunity to volunteer in your local community
• 26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays
• Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)
• Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle
• Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental
• Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks
• Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave