Data Analyst - Water Leakage

RPS Group Plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in the water industry is looking for an Analyst to join their team in Greater London. The role involves developing Power BI reports and analyzing data for impactful decisions in water management. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills, a keen attention to detail, and an understanding of water network dynamics. The position offers robust opportunities for career development within a supportive working environment that promotes work-life balance and personal growth.

Benefits

Personal development plan

Hybrid working options

Transparent career pathways

Qualifications

• Good understanding of computer software packages (Microsoft, GIS).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to interpret and understand water network schematics.

Responsibilities

• Develop and publish Power BI reports.
• Use exploratory data analysis to identify trends.
• Design and build scalable data models.

Skills

Data analysis

Power BI

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Tools

Microsoft software

GIS

Job description

RPS Tetra Tech is seeking a skilled Analyst to join our growing and vibrant West Wales AS&I team, supporting data-driven project delivery for a range of clients. This is a key opportunity to contribute to impactful transformation initiatives through intuitive, interactive, and strategic data solutions.

About The Team

The RPS Asset, Surveying, and Inspection (AS&I) team provides industry leading services to the UK Water Industry. Our employees support services supporting Water Networks, Drainage, Surveying, Leakage Consultancy, Water Resources, and Efficiency. We analyse complex data and provide pragmatic solutions, reducing water leakage and preventing flooding and pollution in local communities.

Our Welsh Water asset management and delivery professionals develop and deliver industry leading solutions in flooding, pollution, water quality, and leakage. Our teams find and repair leaks on the network to minimise water wastage, which is good for Welsh Water customers and the environment.

About You

As a key member of the Asset, Surveying, and Inspection (AS&I) business, your role as an Analyst is critical to our strategic priorities – delivering great work for our clients by providing excellent customer service and executing complex operational tasks. Whether you are just starting out or taking the next step in your career, this position offers an opportunity to progress with RPS.

You will help our client unlock the value of their data by designing, building, and optimising business intelligence reports and dashboards that enable smart decision-making. You will work across a diverse range of digital projects and corporate applications, delivering new insights and enhancing existing systems. The role will also involve putting data in action and supporting our engineering teams on site.

You will be reporting to the Contract Supervisor, responsible for training and mentoring leakage staff, ensuring best practice leakage methods are used and helping deliver leakage reduction and performance within West Wales. Approximately 50% time will be spent in the office; the rest on site. You will need to work flexibly, working weekends, evenings and overtime if required, and be willing to travel to different locations. It is essential that you enjoy working outdoors, as come rain or shine you will mostly be outside.

Responsibilities

• Adept in developing, publishing, and scheduling Power BI reports as per the business requirements.
• Using exploratory data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and outliers in data.
• Mining data from software applications used for investigations, reporting, metrics, and trending.
• Proficient with inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and analysing raw data to discover useful information, inform conclusions, and support effective decision‑making.
• Responsible for designing and building scalable data models and enabling advanced analytic capabilities that provide meaningful business value through easy‑to‑comprehend data visualisations.
• Ability to collaborate with key stakeholders to deliver relevant insights based on identified business requirements.
• Work independently through unstructured tasks.
• Strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, strong interpersonal skills as well as written and verbal communication skills.
• Ensuring that Health and Safety is maintained, upholding RPS Company Policies at all times.
• Undertaking training and completing detailed individual training matrix / plans.
• Assessing and ensuring good leakage practise is always adhered to and reporting.
• Work closely with under achieving staff, to ensure targets are achieved and maintained.
• Attending client meetings when required.
• Trialling new equipment and producing detailed reports.
• Forming and maintaining excellent working relationships with colleagues, other contractors, and clients.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Good understanding and demonstrable working knowledge of computer software packages (Microsoft, GIS, and specific technical programs).
• Track record of training and delivery.
• Ability to interpret and understand water network schematics and plans to a high standard.
• Very good all‑round knowledge of Water Network Hydraulics, Leakage Detection Techniques, Monitoring and reporting of Leakage Levels and other issues associated with the Clean Water Industry.
• Excellent working knowledge of leakage delivery.
• Ability to quickly learn new theories, techniques and working methods associated with duties and tasks and deliver to leakage staff.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable effective communication with internal and external colleagues, other technical specialists, consultants, and senior internal and external managers.
• Well organised with the ability to manage own workload and work to allocated deadlines.
• Ability to work well under pressure and to conflicting deadlines whilst maintaining attention to detail and high levels of standards.
• Enjoys working as a team and has a flexible ‘can do’ attitude, possessing a co‑operative attitude to working and giving and receiving help.
• Health and Safety – may involve moving heavy items including inspection chamber covers, working in all weather conditions (including night work), and may be required to work in confined spaces and on highways. Mandatory drugs and alcohol tests will be undertaken and a DBS check will be undertaken.

What's in it for you?

A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you'll be supported as far as you want to go. A career here is far from ordinary. Here you’re not a number; you are part of the solution.

Why RPS?

We’re a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly, empowering our people to create a work‑life balance that suits them. With agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we trust our people to find the right balance to meet client needs – this is a workplace that works for you.

About RPS, a Tetra Tech Company

RPS, part of Tetra Tech since January 2023, is a global firm that defines, designs, and manages projects in urbanisation, natural resources, and sustainability. As part of Tetra Tech’s 28,000‑strong team across 550 offices in over 120 countries, we deliver solutions that create lasting value in an increasingly urbanised and resource‑scarce world. By leveraging our global expertise, we enable our clients to develop winning solutions for their clients and communities.

As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to provide market‑leading development and project opportunities for our people, supporting their growth while addressing the challenges that matter. Our people drive our success, and this is where you come to build a career.

Kickstart your adventure with endless possibilities within AS&I!

What happens next?

If we feel you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange a competency interview. If this opportunity suits your career journey, we’d love to hear from you. All applications will be considered. Ready to apply? Please have your CV ready and continue with your application online.

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