Innovation Technical Expert

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We’re more than just a water company. We're dedicated to making a positive impact on the environment, sustainability, and the communities we serve. By joining us, you’ll work with the latest technologies, driving forward-thinking projects that enhance and protect national infrastructure, making a real difference to the communities we serve.

Our innovation strategy is simple - We want to solve the challenges we have today as well as find answers to some of our industry’s bigger long-term challenges. Whether it's delivering water that is always good to drink, reducing waste in our processes with energy efficient technologies, working on developing our digital and artificial intelligence approach, or improving visibility of the network, our team of innovators are working day in day out to make it happen.

With nearly 10,000 colleagues, we're looking for more brilliant people who are passionate about sustainability, eager to innovate, and ready to turn challenges into opportunities for a better future.

We’re looking for an Innovation Technical Expert with a background in process engineering or process science to help develop advanced digital twin capabilities for sewage treatment sites. This is a high-impact role where you’ll apply wastewater treatment modelling experience and knowledge of wastewater and biosolids treatment to support forecasting, simulation, and process optimisation.

You’ll combine process expertise, operational data, and mechanistic modelling to understand treatment performance, assess improvement opportunities, and support practical decisions on how wastewater and sludge treatment systems are operated and optimised.

You will work with a wide range of other departmental teams to ensure the project is delivered to the right standard with all the necessary outcomes achieved, therefore having excellent communication and stakeholder skills are key. A critical part of this is understanding your stakeholders around the business and being skilful at presenting your findings to gain their buy‑in, so that the insight you produce lands effectively and contributes to driving continuous improvement and becomes the technology or process of tomorrow.

Operational and site experience is an important element of this role, as you will seek to embed innovative solutions into real site environments.

You will need to work independently on your own initiative and, importantly, as part of a high performing team, demonstrating Severn Trent’s values of Pride, Courage, Curiosity and Care at your core and uphold excellent safety behaviours. You will be empowered to take control of your personal development and constantly seek to improve your and the team's skill set by sharing knowledge and learning.

You will be based out of our office Head Office in Coventry
.You’ll work within our Asset Intelligence and Innovation team
. With this being such a critical role, we’re looking for someone who can join us 37 hours a week, but we will consider requests for considering a part time work pattern. WFH flexibility available and travel to other sites will be required at times so you’ll need to hold a full U.K driving licence.

• Investigate and understand wastewater and bioresources site operations to develop detailed process flow diagrams.
• Identify gaps between existing and required monitoring and equipment for the digital twin to function.
• Develop and apply mechanistic models of wastewater and sludge treatment processes, accounting for hydraulics and relevant physical, chemical, and biological processes.
• Work with data and digital specialists to connect process models with operational data, such as flows and loads, to support…