Closing Date
2025-10-07
Job Title: Shift Controller In Waiting
Location: Burham
Job Type: FTC
Hours: 37
Salary: From £28,200
Do you want to make a difference? At Southern Water, your work will help to enhance health and wellbeing, protect and improve the environment and sustain the economy. You’ll also play an important role in helping us deliver a resilient water future for the South-East.
Southern Water are looking for a Shift Controller in waiting to assist with the running and upkeep of Burham Water Supply Works. You will earn a salary from £28,200 per annum depending on skills and experience.
This role is a great opportunity for someone new to the water industry, working 9-5 Monday to Friday you’ll have the opportunity to learn the operation of the Water Supply Works applying your knowledge of compliance and health and safety to ensure that the site is compliant with water quality standards.
You will be well-prepared and positioned to step into the Shift Controller role as soon as an opportunity becomes available.
This is an exciting time to join this team at Southern Water, not only because of the large capital delivery schemes taking place across the site but as an added bonus you will be part of a great team who achieves satisfaction and success with the ability to go above and beyond for our customers.
Due to the location being a fair distance from any public transport, ownership of a driver’s licence is crucial for the 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.