Product & Process Engineer

Product and Process Engineer – 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

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

• We offer a salary of £32,671 to £40,838 depending on experience.
• A Company van.
• Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum bonus opportunity for the performance year)
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution)
• Development opportunities in line with the Product & Process Engineer progression plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – plus an extra wellness day! (plus, additional days in lieu of working bank holidays)
• 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:

We currently have a 12 month FTC opportunity for a Product & Process Engineers to join our Bio-Resource department in the Halifax and Huddersfield areas. Ideally applicants would need to live with a reasonable commutable distance of Deighton WWTW and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

Work type:
Fixed Term Contract 12 Months. Our assets are operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The role is working 37 hours per week on a 7-day working pattern, working weekends on a rota, providing 07:00 to 19:00 on-site cover. Once fully trained you will also take part in an operational out of hours rota which provides emergency cover for issues that arise outside of the contractual working window weekend working will be expected as part of the role with compensatory rest days applied to accommodate this.

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. Bio-Resources are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

As our Product & Process Engineer you will be responsible for safely undertaking operational and maintenance activities associated with the day to day running of wastewater treatment works. You will be responsible for conducting daily routine manual and technical work tasks on the site, including routine operations, instrument calibration and basic maintenance checks to prevent failure and to manage and prioritise workload according to available resource.

The Product & Process Engineer will take ownership of the site and maintain a safe working environment by always implementing and adhering to Health and Safety procedures. This will include the management of contractors via Control of Work, inducting visitors onto sites and mitigating and resolving hazards as they arise.

You will use process information, both manual and IT based, to proactively optimise the site processes and improve process efficiency in terms of cost of treatment and energy generation. Commercially, you will drive for the optimisation of all processes to minimise operational costs and meet out performance targets.

• Our large Wastewater Treatment Works contain a range of complex processes and control systems, so you will need to be able to demonstrate that you can learn technical processes and be able to problem solve and drive process improvements.
• You will have previous…