Water Treatment Works Controller

We now have an opportunity for a Treatment Works Controller to join the team who operate & maintain Water Treatment Assets across our Essex Supply Area. Working as part of a team, you will be responsible for operating and controlling key Water Treatment Assets across our North Essex operational area. Within this role you will conduct tasks in all conditions to ensure these assets operate correctly and efficiently, undertaking fault investigations and appropriate actions when issues are found.

You will need to have good IT skills and be able to analyse and interpret various pieces of information to identify process issues and optimise the assets' performance. You'll carry out routine water quality analysis, making adjustments to treatment processes, monitoring, and controlling flow rates, undertaking plant checks, front line maintenance tasks, validation checks on various types of instrumentation and completion of both paper and electronic records.

Full training will be provided to undertake the various technical aspects of this role. This role has also 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 undergo 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.

Our Treatment Works Controllers play a key role in maintaining the quality and quantity of water through our treatment sites and processes; therefore, we are looking for people who have a strong focus on quality and are comfortable with the analysis and interpretation of data. We need people who are happy to undertake a variety of tasks in all conditions and enjoy working outside, as well as inside, providing a 24/7 service to our customers - whatever the weather!

If you have a full driving licence and experience of working in a technical environment and would like a role that will engage you physically and mentally, in a great company, we want to hear from you.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work. Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.

We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation. Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment NWL are an inclusive employer who supports the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.

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. Our "Tap Into" benefits include:

• Generous holiday entitlement starting 23 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
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