Wastewater Monitoring Analyst

Wessex Water; Bath; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 20%

Career progression

25 days holiday

Electric car lease

Job summary

YTL UK in Bath is seeking a Wastewater Monitoring Analyst to join our Water Recycling Monitoring Team. You will ensure data quality, support regulatory decision-making and provide operational insight.

You will work with field and directorate colleagues to monitor wastewater flow, EDM at storm overflows and new water quality stations, reporting on issues and driving timely actions.

Qualifications

• Experience analysing wastewater data and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to interpret large datasets and identify trends.
• Strong attention to detail and data quality control.

Responsibilities

• Monitor regulatory compliance data and escalate issues.
• Review spills and ensure accurate recording on external platforms.
• Produce regular exception reports and identify data anomalies.
• Investigate flow performance issues and identify root causes.
• Track investigations through to resolution and ensure timely progress.
• Support MCERTS maintenance records and monitoring data.
• Collaborate with operations and technical teams across directorates.
• Provide accurate monitoring information to Operations and Compliance.

Skills

Data analysis

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Data quality monitoring

Regulatory awareness

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Monitoring/reporting systems

Job description

Do you enjoy using data to protect the environment and ensure operational compliance? We have a great opportunity for a Wastewater Monitoring Analyst to join our Water Recycling Monitoring Team.

Wessex Water must comply with regulatory targets around data quality, data availability and asset performance. This team is responsible for monitoring data across the Water Recycling Operations directorate, helping to ensure our monitoring is consistent and reliable, identifying emerging issues quickly to support operational and regulatory decision-making.

What you'll do

Your role will principally focus on assuring data, such as wastewater flow on sewage pumping stations, Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) at storm overflows and newly installed water quality monitoring stations. You'll use this data to highlight compliance issues/risks, investigate anomalies and provide operational insight/actions to help teams take the right actions. You will be responsible for tracking action progress so that issues are rectified in a timely manner.

You'll work closely with colleagues across multiple directorates, including front-line field teams, helping to achieve regulatory compliance targets, including escalating and reporting to executive teams.

Responsibilities include:

• monitoring and analysing wastewater regulatory compliance data, ensuring issues are identified and appropriately escalated
• reviewing spills to the environment and ensuring they are recorded accurately on external-facing platforms (Coast and Rivers Watch)
• producing regular exception reporting to support operational teams, identifying data anomalies, missing or unreliable information and monitoring failures
• supporting investigations into flow performance, monitoring issues and equipment failures, helping to identify root causes and appropriate actions
• supporting the management of MCERTS maintenance issues and monitoring records
• tracking investigations and actions through to resolution, ensuring clear ownership and timely progress
• carrying out monitoring, reliability and data-quality checks and supporting performance reporting
• working with operational and technical teams to identify recurring problems and opportunities for improvement
• providing accurate monitoring information and analysis to Operations, Compliance, and other stakeholders.

Whatyou'll need

To be considered for this opportunity, you'll have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ideally with experience working with operational, monitoring or performance data. You'll be comfortable interpreting large datasets, identifying trends and anomalies and turning data into clear information/actions that help others make decisions.

You will have excellent organisational and prioritisation skills to navigate complex and varied pressures through changing weather conditions.

Experience or knowledge of how the water industry is regulated, compliance standards, wastewater networks, flow monitoring, EDM or the wider water industry would be particularly beneficial.

Additionally, we are looking for:

• strong data analysis and interpretation skills
• an analytical approach to identifying problems, investigating root causes and developing solutions
• experience of collecting, validating and analysing data and producing accurate reports
• excellent Microsoft Excel skills and confidence working with monitoring and reporting systems
• an understanding of wastewater networks, treatment processes or flow measurement would be advantageous
• knowledge of EDM, FPF, MCERTS or regulatory monitoring would be beneficial
• excellent attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining accurate, reliable and traceable data
• strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical information to different audiences
• excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple issues and changing operational demands
• a collaborative approach and the confidence to work with a wide range of operational and technical teams
• the ability to take ownership of investigations and actions and follow them through to resolution.

What you'll receive

• A combined pensioncontribution of up to 20%.
• Career progression andprofessional development opportunities.
• 25 days' holiday rising to 28with length of service.
• Theopportunity to sell up to five days of holiday every year.
• Theopportunity to buy up to ten days of holiday each year (subject to conditions).
• A healthcare packagethat allows you to claim back healthcare costs.
• Life assurance of up to eight times your salary.
• Theopportunity to lease a new electric car through salary sacrifice (subject to conditions).
• Cashback and discounts from more than 3,000 retailers.
• One paidvolunteering day each year.
• Enhanced family leave and payarrangements.
• Access to aninteractive health and wellbeing platform.
• Support from trained mental health first aiders.
• A £1,000 referral fee if you recommend someone who issuccessfully recruited by us.

Who we are

YTL UK is part of the international YTL Group based in Kuala Lumpur. The UK companies include:

• Wessex Water – one of the top-performing water and sewerage companies in England and Wales, serving 2.9 million people across the South West
• YTL Developments – a major UK developer currently redeveloping a 450-acre former airfield into an award-winning, exciting mix of houses, apartments, schools, commercial space, restaurants and hotels, to make a truly sustainable new community
• YTL Construction UK – a top 20 UK contractor providing fully integrated services to infrastructure, residential, commercial, industrial, energy and environmental sectors
• YTL Live – the development and operation of an entertainment complex that includes a 20,000 capacity arena, conferencing and exhibition space
• plus a number of other retail,environmental and specialist businesses.

Our people tell us that YTL UK is a great place to work, which is why so many of them stay with us! You will have a unique opportunity to develop and progress your career within such a diverse group.

We are passionate about diversity and inclusion – with that in mind, all applicants are welcome. We are delighted to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and are a Disability Confident Employer.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please inform a member of our Recruitment team.