Closing Date
2025-11-07
Job Title: Storm Overflow Engineer
Location: West Sussex/Sussex
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week (with overtime opportunity)
Salary: Circa £45,000
Storm overflows are no longer acceptable to our customers, communities, or the environment. That’s why our Clean Rivers & Seas Task Force is leading the way with pioneering solutions to reduce spills and transform how we manage stormwater. With a £1.5 billion programme underway, we’re expanding our team to deliver even more innovative, sustainable interventions across the region. As a Storm Overflow Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of this mission—designing and delivering bespoke solutions to reduce storm overflow spills, working across departments, contractors, and communities to make a real impact.
What You’ll Be Doing
1. Analyse technical reports to understand the root causes of storm overflow activation
2. Design and deliver targeted interventions across 20+ catchments, including multi-million-pound schemes
3. Manage budgets and spill reduction targets within your geographical area
4. Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver schemes—often on assets not owned by Southern Water
5. Review rainfall, pump station and monitoring data to assess impact and improve future interventions
6. Present business cases, forecast budgets, and report on performance and outcomes
7. Attend monthly community presentations to share updates and build advocacy—sometimes in challenging environments
8. Engage with customers and stakeholders to build trust and support for stormwater management
9. Lead health and safety responsibilities across all delivery activities
10. Influence uptake of sustainable drainage solutions (SuDS) on private property
We’re looking for someone strategic and resourceful, with strong technical understanding of wastewater and sewer systems. You’ll be a confident communicator with the ability to simplify complex technical information for non-technical audiences, empathetic and composed when working with customers under pressure, experienced in managing contractors and cross-functional teams, skilled in risk management, governance, and health & safety leadership, comfortable working with incomplete datasets and driving innovation in a new regulatory space. A BTEC/HNC in Civil Engineering or equivalent experience is required.
What We’re Offering
11. Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
12. 25 days annual leave
13. Life assurance equal to 4x salary
14. Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
15. Health Cash Plan and fully funded eye tests
16. Two paid volunteering days a year
17. Occupational health service
18. Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
19. Digital GP service
20. Study support for job-related qualifications
21. Competitive maternity leave and flexible return-to-work options
22. Cycle to work scheme
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of stormwater management and environmental protection. If you’re passionate about making a difference and ready to lead change, we’d love to hear from you. Not sure you meet every requirement? Or need flexibility around working hours? Let’s talk—we’re open to finding practical solutions that work for you.
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why all our employees play a role in incident support when needed—because when problems arise, we come together to fix them fast.
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