Closing Date
2025-07-25
Job Title: Senior Catchment Management Specialist - Regulatory
Location: Brighton, East Sussex (hybrid, 2 days per week)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: circa £55,000
The Environment & Innovation team is at the forefront of Southern Water’s drive to enhance and protect the environment. Deploying the latest innovative solutions and working in partnership with our customers and stakeholders, the team takes an holistic approach to managing water quality and flow across the region. Currently delivering a £50million portfolio which rapidly expands to over £2 billion over next 10 years. This is a fast-paced team that is now expanding to continue to deliver a larger programme of sustainable and innovative solutions.
Job Overview
The role holder will support the Catchment Strategy Manager to deliver the water quality regulatory programme in relation to the environment and in particular development of catchment-scale, sustainable solutions to meet our water supply challenges. As a Senior you will assist the professional development of the Catchment Management Specialists.
1. Support the Catchment Strategy Manager to technically manage implementation and delivery and reporting to successfully fulfil our regulatory and compliance requirements. Responsible for undertaking technical evaluation/recommendations on environmental measures that will likely be needed to mitigate predicted environmental challenges.
2. Engagement with key stakeholders including our regulators (EA and DWI), other Water Companies, the water industry, Catchment Partnerships, internally within SWS to promote our Catchment First Programme and contribute to industry technical working groups
3. Catchment Management expert providing specialist advice to the wider business in relation to Catchment Management, Water Resources, Planning and Development, Environmental Policy etc. Contribute to industry forums promoting the catchment First approach.
4. Assist the professional development of the Catchment Management Specialists.
About You
5. Demonstrable experience of water quality investigations and catchment management planning and delivery
6. Experience of technical report writing and review of water resource and water quality investigations, catchment risk assessments.
7. The ability to demonstrate the completion of quality multi-disciplinary tasks on time to a consistent & high standard.
8. Experience of designing water quality, hydroecology and hydrometric monitoring programmes, data analysis and assimilation.
9. Excellent verbal, written, presentation and problem solving skills.
10. You will have an environmental background with an MSc or equivalent experience in technical water quality and catchment management planning and delivery.
11. Experience managing delivery of technical work via sub-contracted consultancy teams and data analysis including use and development of GIS and dashboard reporting systems.
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Falmer office and home. We are offering a salary circa £55,000 as well as other benefits including:
12. Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
13. 25 days annual leave
14. Life assurance equal to 4x salary
15. Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
16. Health Cash Plan
17. Full funded eye tests
18. Two paid volunteering days a year
19. Occupational health service
20. Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
21. Digital GP service
22. Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
23. Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
24. Cycle to work scheme
Join our Environment & Innovation 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.
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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