Local recruitment: Wastewater Science Manager

Dŵr Cymru

Swansea, UK 🇬🇧

Date:  13 Sep 2024

Company:  DWR Cymru Cyfyngedig Welsh Water Plc

City:  Swansea

Address:  

Swansea, Wales, GB, SA4 3AB

Job Requisition Number                             6725                                                                              
Work TypePermanent
Job FunctionScientist
Salary Range£49,235.00 -£57,852.00 
BaseSouth West Region
Closing date23:59 on 27/09/2024

What you’ll be responsible for


Leading a team of Process and Trade Effluent Scientists and prioritising workloads to enable timely solutions to Wastewater Process and Trade Effluent problems. This will include:
 

  • Protecting Welsh Water’s wastewater network, treatment assets, processes and the receiving environment from the effects of WWTW’s effluent discharges and associated trade effluent discharges to public sewer.    
  • Working closely with the Welsh Water Operation Team to ensure the process quality at wastewater treatment works is maintained and that effluent is produced within Regulatory boundaries. 
  • Directing a local team of trade effluent officers to ensure that specialised technical enquires from customers are dealt with within the appropriate timescales and that appropriate levels of support, investigation & remediation are provided to maximise income whilst minimising business risk to compliance
  • Providing scientific expertise and direction necessary to ensure high quality cost effective process operation at all sites. Critically appraising wastewater treatment processes, to ensure that both cost and treatment are optimised.
  • Ensuring procedures and activities comply with all H&S legislation and Welsh Water Health & Safety policy in maintaining a safe working environment.
  • Ensuring that compliance sample failures are investigated to find the root cause of failures including lessons learnt and any actions required to prevent further occurrences.
  • Monitoring and reporting budget compliance on a monthly basis and taking remedial action where necessary.
     

Who you’ll work with


Internal:

•    Process Scientists
•    Process Operators
•    Operational managers including Operational Supervisors, Catchment Managers and Head of Wastewater Treatment.
•    Asset Engineers
•    Scientific Team. 
•    Developer services 


External:

•    Business Trade effluent customer 
•    NRW and Environment Agency 
•    Chemical Suppliers 
•    Capital partners 
 

About you


Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
 

  • A degree in a scientific discipline preferably in Engineering, Science or Environmental subjects
  • Must have a valid UK driving licence
  • A comprehensive understanding of Environmental Legislation and Codes of Practice
  • Be considered an expert on all matters pertaining to waste water treatment and trade effluent
  • Must be able to understand fundamental control and instrumentation philosophies
  • Must have a knowledge of wastewater science and treatment
  • Must possess good interpersonal skills and have a proven ability in process fault analysis

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days  annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

  • Variable pay schemes (your salary will always stay the same, but depending on the performance of the company you could receive a yearly bonus)
  • Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
  • Enhanced family friendly policies
  • Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
  • Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Car-leasing scheme
  • Health CashBack scheme
  • An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family

Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.

Who we are


Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.
 

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 
 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.
 

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.

INDMP

Dŵr Cymru Cyf, a limited company registered in Wales No. 2366777. Registered office: Linea, Fortran Road, St. Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0LT

© Dŵr Cymru Cyf 2019.


Job Segment: Chemistry, Wastewater, Water Treatment, Compliance, Instrumentation, Science, Engineering, Legal


POSITION TYPE

EXPERIENCE-LEVEL

DEGREE REQUIRED

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