Process Control Technician (Water Treatment)

Process Control Technician (Water Treatment)          

Full time 37 hours per week plus participation on standby rota

Location –Northumbrian Water operating area

Starting Salary – £35,763 - £44,704

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Water Quality Process Support team as our Water Process Control Technician. You’ll join a team that is responsible for providing technical assistance to our operational teams supplying potable water to our customers across the Northumbrian operating area.  

This team focuses on supporting our water supply teams, providing leading water quality to our customers whist protecting the environment. This means you will carry out investigations into understanding where water treatment performance fails to meet our expectations.

This role offers the successful candidate with the opportunity to develop their analysis and problem-solving skills to undertake monitoring of treatment processes.

Within this role you will undertake continuous improvement initiatives, using your willingness to generate new ideas and improvements which includes embedding best practice through coaching to the wider team.

This role will include raising awareness of the water treatment processes, monitoring and control to establish a heightened level of competence across the Water Supply teams. 

Working collaboratively with our Water Supply and Water Quality teams, you will evaluate asset condition, evaluate and performance utilising SCADA, our water monitoring system which allows us to process our operational requirements. You will undertake root cause analysis by reviewing data quality and accuracy, providing written reports, identifying opportunities for improvement.

A current full driving licence is essential. Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment

Please note – This role has 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.

About you

Our Process Control Technician (Water Treatment) will carry out regular performance analysis of water quality performance. Therefore, you will be confident with interpreting data to ensure our water treatment processes are operating effectively and efficiently.

This is a varied role whereby you will be able to work effectively as part of a team or alone with minimal supervision and flexible enough to meet a varied workload.

Within this role you will write reports and provide training to teams which means we’re seeking proven communication experience. You will also be capable of delivering technical assistance to those operating our water treatment processes, undertaking data analysis and interpretation. This includes identifying problems and providing solutions to optimise assets and processes.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone keen to enhance their technical knowledge, engaging with internal and external partners and take the initiative, helping to influence and shape the ways of working within the Water team.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.  We have our colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks too.

About us

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, and that female candidates are less likely to apply if they don’t have the full range of skills, however if you have some of the skills listed, we 'd encourage you to apply.

NWG at a glance:

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.

We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.

Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

Our benefits

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues.

Benefits to include, here’s just a few of them:

• Enhanced maternity pay

• Enhanced annual leave with additional special leave for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
• Company pension scheme
• Digital GP
• Award winning wellbeing website
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life assurance
• Qualification loans
• Professional subscription
• Buy and sell annual leave
• Discounts and cashback offers