Water Quality Scientist

Yorkshire Water; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus (£1000 max)

Pension up to 12%

Development opportunities

25 days leave

Wellbeing days

Life assurance 4x salary

Health benefits

Retail savings scheme

Online GP

Cycle to work

Gym discounts

Job summary

Yorkshire Water is seeking a Water Quality Scientist – Potable to join our Water Quality team and help ensure safe drinking water and compliant operations across the Yorkshire region.

The role covers the Rivelin WTW area near Sheffield with travel to other sites; base location flexible. It is 37 hours per week, Mon-Fri, on a hybrid basis with out-of-hours standby as required.

Qualifications

• Understanding of water quality processes and regulatory obligations.
• Ability to deal with incidents to protect public health and minimise impacts on water quality compliance.
• Excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills.
• Able to solve problems under pressure and to deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to fault find processes and systems.
• Able to handle large amounts of diverse data and spot risks to compliance.
• Can-do attitude with ability to plan for the future and adapt to unforeseen events.
• Excellent influencing and networking skills to build relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead coordinated incident response across the business and ensure procedures are followed.
• Prepare regulator and senior management reports and review exception reports.
• Ensure compliance with CRI, ERI, Customer Contacts and UPO commitments.
• Act as water quality consultant on a 1 in 5-week basis, providing support internally and externally.
• Join the water quality standby rota (minimum 1 in 5 weeks) after training.

Skills

Water quality knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Data handling

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Proactive attitude

Job description

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:

• We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience £35,500 - £44,375.
• Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum bonus opportunity for the performance year).
• Attractive pension scheme (Currently up to 12% company contribution).
• Development opportunities in line with the Water Quality Scientist progression plan.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - plus an extra two wellness days!
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary.
• A great benefits package - choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme.
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Location: Working in the our team, the role will cover the surrounding areas of our Rivelin WTW in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, however travel will be required to other areas of Yorkshire.

Base location will depend on home location. These roles will be a mixture of site/office/home working.

Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday. Participation in an out of hours standby rota is a requirement of the role.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Water Quality Scientist - Potable to join the Water Quality team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers.

Could this be you?

What we do!

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it's so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire's water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region's health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. Water Production are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

This is a vital role, as you will be providing the best customer service and resolution to water quality related contacts. You will optimise, assets, systems, processes, and procedures in line with continuous improvement in water quality performance and protection of public health at all times both (water distribution and production sites). You will work towards minimising water quality related contacts and to help deliver our vision of taking responsibility for the water environment for good.

Where you fit in!

As our Water Quality Scientist – Potable you will;

• You will lead a co-ordinated, planned and effective response to incidents across the business, and to ensure that processes, procedures are followed and agreed actions or requirements are implemented.
• You will prepare reports for submission to our regulator/Senior Managers and investigatory reports and review of exception reports provided by the team of scientists.
• You will ensure compliance with our Performance Commitments - specifically the Compliance Risk Index (CRI), the Event Risk Index (ERI), Customer Contacts and Unplanned Outage (UPO) commitments.
• You will undertake the role of water quality consultant on a 1 in 5-week basis providing water quality support within water quality and across the business and to external stakeholders. You will support and deliver key initiatives and projects in relation to Water Quality Compliance, Customer Contacts, Network, Production and Capital support.
• Once fully trained you will be part of the water quality standby rota on a minimum 1 week in 5 frequency. Providing expert support and advice on behalf of the Water Quality Manager to field, Asset Management, the Duty Manger and the wider business as required.

What skills & qualifications you will need:

• The successful candidate will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of water quality processes and regulatory obligations, water treatment and distribution processes.
• You will be able to deal with incidents and events to protect public health and to minimise impacts on water quality compliance.
• You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills this includes both written report writing and verbally.
• You will be able to solve problems often under pressure and to deadlines.
• You will have strong analytical skills and be able to fault find processes and systems.
• You will be able to handle large amounts of diverse data and to spot potential risks to compliance.
• You will have a can-do attitude with not only an ability to plan for the future but a capability to deal effectively with the unforeseen.
• You will have excellent influencing and networking skills to build relationships with key stakeholders at all levels within Yorkshire Water, service partner organisations and with external key stakeholders. You will consider health and safety at all times and support a zero accident culture. You will be comfortable using a range of IT systems.

Although we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it's important to us that we support flexible working patterns and job share options (when we can), to help you make the best of both your work and home life. We know that juggling childcare responsibilities or getting that ideal work/life balance isn't always easy!