Job Description
Industrial Water Treatment Chemist
Port Talbot, Swansea
Are you ready to take your water treatment analytical skills to the next level in a dynamic operations environment? We are is seeking a dedicated Industrial Water Treatment Chemist to join our Chemical Solutions & Monitoring team, where you'll play a crucial role in optimising customer operations and driving commercial success.
As an Industrial Water Treatment Chemist, you'll work closely with our Operations Leader and Account Managers to achieve defined objectives whilst maintaining the highest standards of safety, compliance, and efficiency across a portfolio of customer accounts. This role offers excellent opportunities for professional development in a company committed to environmental solutions and operational excellence.
In this position, you'll be responsible for executing comprehensive service plans that maximise productivity and profitability across assigned customer sites. You'll conduct regular site visits, perform technical assessments, and communicate treatment performance recommendations to customer representatives in accordance with commercial agreements. Your analytical expertise will be essential in identifying upgrade opportunities, managing equipment calibration, and utilising our digital data visualisation platform, InSight, to generate detailed consultant service reports and manage performance trends.
The role encompasses significant responsibility for health, safety, and compliance activities, including Legionella sampling to best practice standards, Point of Work Risk Assessments, and engagement with our Quality, Environment, Health and Safety systems. You'll also support project execution from initial surveying through to completion, participate in customer review meetings, and coordinate with Account Managers to ensure seamless service delivery and adequate holiday coverage.
Day-to-Day Duties:
* Execute comprehensive service plans containing scope of supply, timeframes, products, treatment limits, and performance expectations
* Conduct regular site visits and technical assessments to optimise customer operations and maximise productivity
* Complete and submit Consultant Service Reports within agreed timescales, detailing observations, consequences, and recommended actions
* Perform Legionella sampling to best practice standards and maintain documentation through internal monitoring systems
* Calibrate personal and onsite equipment, generating calibration certificates as required
* Operate dosing pumps, adjusting rates based on onsite test results and performing safe priming procedures
* Utilise InSight digital platform to generate reports, manage trends and alarms, monitor inventory stocks, and add parameters
* Communicate technical concepts to customers and collaborate with the wider Veolia Water Tech team
* Identify commercial opportunities for equipment upgrades, training, analytical services, and expanded scope of supply
* Maintain compliance with internal, legislative, and customer EHS requirements and policies
Qualifications
Skills and Experience:
* Relevant industrial or manufacturing experience, or science/engineering degree
* Full valid driving licence
* Legionella training preferred
* Excellent organisational, communication, and interpersonal abilities
* Ability to effectively support multiple managers and teams simultaneously
* Strong attention to detail with ability to follow instructions and procedures accurately
If you have strong analytical skills, technical aptitude, and commercial awareness, we want to hear from you.
Additional Information
What are the benefits?
At Veolia, we know that at certain crucial moments in life, we all need a little help, protection and support. That's why we are proud to offer our innovative Veolia Cares program, which demonstrates our commitment to our employees. From the very first day of employment, this commitment is reflected in an array of benefits that is generous, and relevant.
These include:
Health & Welfare:
* Holiday allowance 26 days plus Bank Holidays with the option to buy or sell additional days off
* Private Healthcare - currently BUPA, with an option to add your family members
* Dental Plan providing cover or monetary cash back on appointments and treatments
* Enhanced Maternity / Primary Care pay of 13 weeks full pay from Day 1
* Enhanced Paternity / Secondary Care pay of 2 weeks full pay from Day 1
* Adoption Leave of 13 weeks full pay for Parental, and 2 weeks full Co-parental pay from
* day 1 of employment
* Support for Carers offering flexibility for longer term caring needs such as considering
* options of remote work, flexible work hours, adjusted schedules, and paid or unpaid leave
* A Lifestyle Account where we put in £60 to start you off, then match you £ for £ on every
* activity you buy up to £360
* Discounted Gym Memberships
* All employees receive one day of paid volunteering leave per year
Monetary Benefits:
* Leading pension contribution of 10% of your earnings from us every month, doubling your own contribution of 5%
* Option to buy shares at preferential rates
* Salary Sacrifice Schemes
The Bigger Picture - protecting you and your loved ones in the longer term
* Industry leading Life Insurance providing you 10 x your salary as a benefit paid to your nominated person(s)
* Income Protection that covers you for 5 years at up to 60% of your salary, with 2 x your salary as a lump sum should you be unable to return to work.
As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.