24/7 Duty Ops Scientists

at  Yorkshire Water

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:

• We offer a competitive salary, from £32,586 to £40,733 depending on experience.
• Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum bonus opportunity for the performance year).
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 10% company contribution)
• Development opportunities in line with the Duty Ops 24/7 Scientist progression plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – plus an extra wellness day!
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• A great benefits package – choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Location: We have 3 x Duty Ops Scientist opportunities to join the Water Quality & Production department at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you? The Duty Operations Scientist will be based in the Service Delivery Centre, at our Buttershaw site in Bradford.
Work type: Permanent. Working a 12-hour per day, shift pattern nominally 9am until 9pm.

WHAT WE DO:

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.
We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.
New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. Water Quality & Production are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

The Duty Ops Scientist will deliver asset and operational excellence in pursuit of health and safety excellence; regulatory compliance; operational integrity and resilience; operational efficiency and business plan out performance.
The role will transform Water Quality into a safe, integrated, productive, and reliable entity. Drive significant improvements in productivity through improved ways of working and consistent application of IT and technology and regulations.

WHAT SKILLS, EXPERIENCE TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS YOU WILL NEED:

• Understanding of water treatment and distribution processes, water quality regulations and standards
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to deal with incidents and events to protect public health and to minimise impacts on water quality compliance.
• Comprehensive understanding of Water Quality processes and regulatory obligations.
• Ability to participate in team working initiatives.
• Extensive knowledge of YW corporate systems and confident in the use of primary software packages.
• Analytical skills and the ability to fault find processes and systems.
• Ability to handing large amounts of diverse data and to spot potential risks to compliance.
• Be able to establish meaningful performance measures or methodologies.
• An aptitude to use route cause methodology in the understanding of water. Quality events or failures and implementing steps or processes to prevent reoccurrence.
• Demonstrated Influencing and negotiation ability.
• Project leading and co-ordination skills.
• Report writing skills.
• Ability to lead projects and working groups.
• Be able to use own initiative.

Please refer the Job description for details