Job Title: Technical 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.
* The role will involve analysing wastewater catchment performance, modelling scenarios, proposing and reviewing technical solutions and monitoring performance.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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
* You will have a strong technical bias (ideally engineering).
* You have superior data analytical skills.
* You will have hydraulic modelling experience (highly desirable).
* A can do attitude and can overcome complex challenges and obstacles.
* Can challenge colleagues and the supply chain to ensure robust interventions are designed and delivered.
* You will have 5-10 years’ technical experience in Wastewater networks.
* Experience with a variety of analytical tools \ packages (ICM, SQL, R, …)
* Degree level technical (BEng \ MSc) qualifications in engineering
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:
* Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
* 25 days annual leave
* Life assurance equal to 4x salary
* Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
* Health Cash Plan
* Full funded eye tests
* 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 leave and flexible return to work options
* 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