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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 per week
Salary: From £44,000 per annum depending on skills and experience
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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.
Responsibilities
* Ensure that all relevant UK legislation is adhered to, in particular that relating to drinking water quality.
* Monitor and analyse telemetry and laboratory data.
* Perform routine process audits on the Water Supply Works in your area of responsibility.
* Work closely with field operations staff regarding operation and optimisation of treatment processes to maintain compliance with regulations for best value.
* Undertake water quality risk assessments to mitigate risks to quality and production, including advising on service recovery during water quality events.
* Investigate 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.
* Participate 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 draw conclusions and recommendations.
* Excellent IT skills including data analysis in Excel.
* Good mathematical fluency.
* Self‑motivated, assertive, and independent thinker while being a good team worker in a reactive environment.
Benefits
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
* Free annual flu jab and eye test vouchers.
* Pension contributions up to 11% (depending on your contribution).
* An employee assistance program.
* A network of sports and social clubs.
* Company and performance‑related bonus.
* Life assurance equal to 4× salary.
* Salary‑sacrifice electric 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 and 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.
Interested? Why not apply?
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