Field Crew Operative

SOCOTEC’s Monitoring and Surveying teams deliver market-leading monitoring, surveying and data collection services across the UK. With over 30 years of experience, we support major infrastructure, construction, utilities and environmental projects through land and utility surveying, gas and asset surveys, flow and water quality monitoring, and advanced geotechnical and structural monitoring. Using industry‑leading technology and real‑time data, we help clients reduce risk, protect critical assets and make safe, informed decisions.

Our people‑focused, can‑do culture puts safety, quality and customer excellence at the heart of everything we do.

What's in it for you?

Your expertise deserves recognition. Alongside a salary of £27,976 that increases as you progress, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including 25 days holiday (with the option to buy more), an electric car scheme (where applicable), employee recognition programmes, family‑friendly support, exclusive retail discounts, employee assistance programmes, and an enhanced company pension. SOCOTEC UK & Ireland are proud to be Disability Confident accredited.

We are seeking a Field Crew Operative (Water Quality) to join our team based in Leeds, working on water quality monitoring projects across the UK and occasionally in Ireland. In this role, you will primarily focus on water quality fieldwork, including the installation, calibration, and maintenance of water quality monitoring equipment, such as flow monitors, auto‑samplers, and water quality sensors.

Your contributions will play a key part in providing critical data that helps manage wastewater networks, monitor pollution levels, and improve the health of rivers and bathing waters. Your work will assist water companies and environmental agencies in achieving their regulatory compliance goals and improving water quality in local communities.

Typical Day of a Field Crew Operative

Your typical day will involve working on various water quality projects, which include:

• Installing and maintaining water quality monitoring equipment in rivers, sewer systems, and other environmental sites
• Calibration of monitoring equipment and ensuring it is functioning properly to provide accurate data
• Collecting water samples from various sites for analysis, ensuring that samples are handled and stored according to quality standards
• Retrieving and logging data from monitoring equipment and ensuring it is recorded and maintained accurately
• Occasionally assisting with wastewater monitoring tasks
  , helping to install, calibrate, and maintain equipment used in wastewater management projects
• Ensuring health and safety procedures are strictly followed, especially in confined spaces and river environments
• Carrying and setting up equipment safely and efficiently

You’ll be working with your team to ensure all tasks are completed to the highest standards, and you will need to maintain a proactive and positive approach, especially when faced with challenging environments.

The tasks you will undertake will include (but are not limited to):

• Flexibility with hours and working away from home is essential (accommodation and meals paid for by the company)
• A flexible approach to weekend work is essential, as well as occasional night shifts
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team in a variety of changing environments
• Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and the initiative to solve problems
• Comfort working around raw sewage and in confined spaces
• Full, clean, and valid UK driving licence
• Right to work in the UK

Travel across the UK is very common. Candidates must be open to working away from home during the week and accommodate night or evening shifts as needed.

To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:

• Flexibility towards hours and working away from home (accommodation and meals are paid for by the company). A flexible approach to working at night and some infrequent weekend work, is crucial
• Ability to work well within a team and with a variety of different people, as our teams swap and change
• Strong work ethic, positive and can‑do attitude and ability to use your own initiative when faced with problems
• Comfortable working around raw sewage and in confined spaces
• Clean and valid driving licence
• Right to work in the UK

Leeds, United Kingdom