Quality Sampling Coordinator

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group); Coxbench; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) is looking for a Sampling Quality Co Ordinator to join our Water Operations team at Horsley or Hanningfield. You will maintain UKAS 17025 accredited procedures across regulatory sampling activities and ensure QA remains compliant.

You will work with Operational Sampling Supervisors, coordinate quality and HSE processes, manage sampling devices and software (AQCTOOLS, Remote Sampler, LIMS), and travel regularly 2–3 days per month to each site.

Qualifications

• Science-based background with experience in a regulatory UKAS environment and root cause analysis.
• Strong communication skills and ability to organise workload and prioritise improvements.
• Flexible team player, customer-focused approach, able to support others.
• DBS check required before employment; drug and alcohol testing may apply.

Responsibilities

• Maintain UKAS 17025 accredited procedures across Water Operations Regulatory Sampling teams.
• Coordinate quality/H&S processes and sampling software for water sampling operations.
• Manage and maintain sampling devices and software packages (Remote Sampler, AQCTOOLS, LIMS).
• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders including Accreditation, Laboratory and Water Quality teams.
• Travel to Horsley or Hanningfield regularly (2–3 days per month).

Skills

Regulatory experience

UKAS procedures

Root cause analysis

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Tools

AQCTOOLS

Coruson

Remote Sampler

LIMS

Job description

About the role

We have a great opportunity to join us as our Sampling Quality Co Ordinator based at Horsley, Northumberland or Hanningfield, Essex. You will be responsible for maintaining the UKAS quality systems across our Water Operations Regulatory Sampling teams.

Job Description

About the role

We have a great opportunity to join us as our Sampling Quality Co Ordinator based at Horsley, Northumberland or Hanningfield, Essex. You will be responsible for maintaining the UKAS quality systems across our Water Operations Regulatory Sampling teams.

The Successful candidate will maintain all aspects of the Water Sampling team UKAS 17025 accredited procedures.

You will work in partnership with the Operational Sampling Supervisors, coordinating the quality/H&S processes and sampling software packages for water sampling operations, ensuring that both regulatory and operational sampling programmes are collected in accordance with HSE/DWI/UKAS requirements.

You will manage and maintain sampling devices and software packages for Remote Sampler and AQC Tools.

Establishing and maintaining relationships with Key internal and external stakeholders/ suppliers including the Accreditation, Laboratory and Water Quality teams.

Based at either location there will be a requirement to travel to Horsley or Hanningfield on a regular basis usually 2-3 days per month.

About You

To be successful in this role were looking for you to have a science-based background and experience in working in a regulatory environment with d emonstrable experience of working to UKAS accredited Procedures and performing root cause analysis.

Were looking for you to have good communication skills with the ability to organise own workload and prioritise, always look for improvements to ways of working.

You will be flexible and willing to support other members of the sampling team with a customer focussed approach.

Ideally you will have experience of working with laboratory or Sampling software packages such as AQCTOOLS, Coruson, Remote Sampler, Lims.

Please note this role will require a DBS to be completed prior to employment.

This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test.

Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked.