Closing Date
2025-08-22
Job Title: Storm Overflow Specialist
Location: Flexible (within our region), hybrid 2 days per week.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: circa £40,000
Storm overflows are very provocative and not acceptable to our customers and stakeholders. We want to lead the charge in resolving the current situation. That’s where our Clean Rivers & Seas Task Force comes in, implementing pioneering and industry-leading solutions to reduce spills and reliance on overflows whilst also enhancing the environment for our communities. Currently delivering a £1.5billion programme over the next 10 years, and we are now expanding the team so we can continue to work in partnership to deliver a larger programme of sustainable and innovative interventions to reduce the use of storm overflows.
Job Overview
A critical technical role in the clean rivers and seas task force which ensures we have a technically creditable programme of works that delivers the spills reduction, where we need it, at the right pace.
1. The role will involve analysing wastewater catchment performance, modelling scenarios, proposing and reviewing technical solutions and monitoring performance.
2. You will be responsible for the technical design and assurance of the storm overflow programme – provide input, options, challenge, steer and governance to ensure we design & deliver a technically feasible set of interventions for our AMP8 programme.
3. You will lead on the technical assurance of benefits from the storm overflow programme – design monitoring programmes, conduct modelling & analysis to ensure we measure the benefits of the interventions and justify our PR24 assumption base to secure circa £2billon investment.
4. You will support innovative approaches for analysis with our Technical Lead and other thought leaders internally, in academia, across the UK water industry and the supply chain.
About You
5. You will have a strong technical bias (ideally engineering) with an understanding of the water water network OR
6. You have superior data analytical skills OR
7. You will have hydraulic modelling experience
8. A can do attitude and can overcome complex challenges and obstacles.
9. Can challenge colleagues and the supply chain to ensure robust interventions are designed and delivered.
10. You will have technical experience in Wastewater networks.
11. Experience with a variety of analytical tools \ packages (ICM, SQL, R, …)
12. Degree level technical (BEng \ MSc) qualifications in engineering (desirable)
This is a unique opportunity to join a high performing and highly engaged team who are delivering a large innovative programme in partnership using sustainable and nature-based approaches to reduce the use of storm overflows and improve the environment. We know that over-use of storm overflows is a problem, so we are excited to invite you to be part of the solution!
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between an office (Kent, Hants or Sussex) and home. We are offering a salary of circa £40,000 as well as other benefits including:
13. Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
14. 25 days annual leave
15. Life assurance equal to 4x salary
16. Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
17. Health Cash Plan
18. Full funded eye tests
19. Two paid volunteering days a year
20. Occupational health service
21. Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
22. Digital GP service
23. Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
24. Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
25. Cycle to work scheme
Join our Clean Rivers & Seas Task Force and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
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