Senior Water Quality Process Scientist page is loaded## Senior Water Quality Process Scientistlocations: BURHAM: NEW ROMNEY: CANTERBURY: GRAVESEND: Kenttime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdaytime left to apply: End Date: November 24, 2025 (15 days left to apply)job requisition id: JR7365**Closing Date**24/11/2025**Job Title: Senior Water Quality Process Scientist****Location: Kent - Driving licence essential due to site visit requirements****Contract Type: Permanent****Hours: 37 hours p/w****Salary: From £44,000 per annum depending on skills and experience****There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!****Job Overview****Here at Southern Water, we are looking for a Senior Water Quality Process Scientist, covering the Kent area for our Water Performance team.****As a Senior Process Scientist, you will be responsible for monitoring and optimising drinking water quality from source to tap to ensure we meet our customer promise of a constant, high-quality supply.****Your key responsibilities will include:*** **Ensure that all relevant UK legislations are adhered to, in particular that relating to drinking water quality*** **Monitoring and analysis of telemetry and laboratory data*** **Routine process audits on the Water Supply Works in your area of responsibility*** **Working closely with field operations staff regarding operation and optimisation of treatment processes to ensure compliance with Regulations is maintained for best value*** **Undertake water quality risk assessments to ensure risks to quality and production are mitigated, including advising on service recovery during water quality events.*** **Undertake detailed investigations into the root cause of water quality compliance failures and incidents and produce reports with recommendations for remedial and preventative actions*** **Provide input to planned and reactive reporting to the Drinking Water Inspectorate*** **Participating in a standby roster on a minimum 1/12-day basis****About You*** **Good understanding of water chemistry/ biology and the principles of water treatment*** **Knowledge of the regulatory principles and framework governing the UK water supply industry*** **Graduate in science or engineering or equivalent business experience*** **Confident in collecting and analysing data to investigate scientific issues and drawing out conclusions and recommendations*** **Excellent IT skills including data analysis in excel*** **Good mathematical fluency*** **Self-motivated, assertive, and independent thought whilst being a good team worker working within a reactive environment****As well as a great salary package, we also offer the below benefits!*** **25 days annual leave+ Bank Holidays*** **Free annual flu jab and eye test vouchers*** **Pension contributions up to 11% (depending on your contribution)*** **An employeeassistanceprogram*** **A network of sports and social clubs*** **Company and performance-related bonus*** **Life assurance equal to 4x salary*** **Salarysacrificeelectric car scheme (after 6 months service)*** **Health Cash Plan*** **Two paid volunteering days a year*** **Occupational health service*** **Discounts with over 800 popular retailers*** **Digital GP service*** **Study support may be available for job-related qualifications.*** **Competitive maternity & paternity leave and flexible return to work options*** **Cycle to work scheme.****Join our Water Performance team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.**We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications so if you are interested in the position please do send your application over today to ensure consideration.We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to facilitate your participation in the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to showcase their skills and experience.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.### Our Benefits* Company and performance-related bonus* Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution* Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary* Health benefits through a Cash Plan* Two paid community volunteering days a year* 25 days annual holiday* Occupational health service* Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences* Study support may be available for job-related qualifications* We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options**#LI-Hybrid**
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