Water Quality Specialist

Overview

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual with good planning, communication and data handling skills to help plan and deliver multi-functional environmental benefits, with the primary focus being Water Quality.

• Work on a variety of aspects of strategic water planning to understand risks, find solutions, and work with stakeholders who can effect change.
• Review, challenge and advise stakeholder plans and permissions, ensuring they comply with environmental regulations.
• Understand, analyse and translate a variety of data and information into evidence that can inform and influence decisions by technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support local and national working groups and projects.
• Respond to incidents as part of an incident role and be available to support business continuity; additional pay may be provided.
• Advise and facilitate resolution of complex or contentious issues and respond to planning and development consultations.

• Ideal:
  Degree level in an environmental discipline or relevant experience.
• A good understanding of our business and environmental activities and strong IT skills.
• Ability to demonstrate specialist technical leadership and mentoring.
• Experience with water quality data analysis, research and/or modelling tools and techniques.
• Experience gathering, maintaining, quality-assuring and presenting data to inform and influence decisions.
• Experience translating guidance and instructions into delivery.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a larger cross‑functional team, prioritise and deliver work to relevant standards and deadlines.
• Good organisational skills, discipline and the ability to plan, track, deliver and evaluate own work.
• Communicating effectively with a wide range of customers.

• Water company price review and asset management plans.
• Knowledge of sewage treatment works and sewerage network processes and operation, including Urban Pollution Management processes and standards.
• Aware of measures to protect the water quality of drinking water supplies from diffuse pollution sources.
• Responding to water quality permit consultations and determination of waste water continuous and intermittent discharge permit limits.
• Water industry wastewater management.
• Environmental legislation relevant to sewage discharges and water quality.
• Supporting local and national working groups and projects.
• Advising and facilitating resolution of complex or contentious issues.
• Responding to planning and development consultations.

The role will be based in our Wallingford office and may require some travel. Flexible working is supported where possible.

Incident role may include additional pay and is fully training‑supported.

We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce. All applicants are considered without regard to age, disability, family or home life, gender or gender identity, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.