Water Treatment Works Controller

Water Treatment Works Controller

Location:

Chigwell, Essex

Full time, 38 hours per week, Permanent. Salary £31,120 – £38,900 (depending on experience).

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. 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.

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. Failing a pre‑employment urine drug screen may lead to the job offer being revoked.

We’re looking for people who have a strong focus on quality and are comfortable with data analysis and interpretation. You should be happy to undertake a variety of tasks in all conditions, enjoy working outside and inside, and provide a 24/7 service regardless of weather.

If you have a full driving licence and experience of working in a technical environment, we want to hear from you.

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and to 1.5 million people in the South East as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We embrace diversity, inclusion and equity and encourage all colleagues to bring their authentic selves. Our colleague networks include Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH, WiSTEM, and Thisability.

We are a DBS-checked employer. We support rehabilitation of offenders but will not consider candidates with certain unspent convictions to ensure a safe environment for all.

• Generous holiday entitlement starting 23 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. Option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme with employer match up to 10%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• Discount scheme for days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award‑winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service.
• Support with sustainable travel via salary sacrifice cars and cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support – community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans. Also 4 life assurance and income protection scheme.
• Development opportunities, interest‑free qualification loan and support for professional body subscriptions.

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.