Treatment Works Controller

Water Treatment Works Controller

Full time 38 hours per week

Permanent

£33,065 to £38,900 depending on experience

Layer & Langham TW, Colchester

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 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, adjusting 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 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

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 support 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.

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 undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of…