WE OFFER A COMPETITIVE SALARY, DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE FROM £40,167.71 - £50,210.16 PER ANNUM, ALSO INCLUDING A 20% SHIFT ALLOWANCE.

• Attractive pension scheme (up to 10% company contribution)

• Annual performance related bonus
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – plus an extra wellness day!
• 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!

Where I’d work: Service Delivery Centre – Bradford
Work type: Permanent. You will work as part of a 6-person shift team providing 24/7 technical and investigation support for pollution incident response in the Service Delivery Centre at Bradford - BD6.

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.

WHAT SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS YOU WILL NEED:

• High level of technical understanding within wastewater assets and operations
• Analytical and fault diagnosis of wastewater operational processes
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory guidance and how to apply it
• Full knowledge of MS applications, especially Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Awareness of regional telemetry systems, mapping systems and SAP would be beneficial.
• Experience of Health and Safety management processes and systems
• Experience in incident management and asset failure recovery
• Rigorous attention to detail to ensure ‘right first time’ performance
• Financial awareness

SOME OF THE KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING -

• Work as part of the team to deliver excellent performance by understanding how their individual performance links into achieving the team’s wider objectives.
• Drive excellent standards and performance in health and safety, risk management and control of work and ensure compliance with the Company’s Safety Policy
• Demonstrate relentless drive, energy, and determination to deliver sustainable outperformance that rigorously achieves against demanding competitive industry benchmarks
• Ensure that robust financial management and commercial awareness form the foundation of all business decisions
• Manage incidents relating to pollution, flooding or regulatory compliance - providing instruction and advice to minimise incident impact upon customers, the environment and operational performance
• Drive Incident resolution through the monitoring of Incident response against key milestones and escalation triggers contained in the Incident management process, directing and organising Field activity in a timely manner to ensure optimal response
• React to emerging incidents and provide technical support and advice to both operational teams and the control room, developing adequate response and recovery plans, as well as contingency plans.
• Apply hydraulic calculations and undertake hydraulic modelling to understand the potential impact of wet weather events or asset failure
• Liaison with external stakeholders such as the Environment Agency and Local Authorities for the reporting and updates regarding relevant risks or events
• Where a network failure occurs, ensure the impact upon customers and the environment is minimised through the direction of the appropriate operational response. Create an operational action plan and agree follow on work/investigation with the field teams to prevent a repeat
• Ensuring that Asset Records and our Quality Management System - QMS are updated as and when errors are identified and actively liaise with field teams to promote the use of standards, QMS and site-specific procedures
• Actively promote the use of quality management systems which hold information for site specific and wastewater system risks and operational requirements
• Undertaking investigations for asset failures including root cause analysis and provision of accurate impact
• Demonstrate a continuing commitment to ensuring the accurate recording of all asset failure risks identified by the team and ensure that these are accurately articulated with supporting technical documentation and risk scoring
• Provide engineering support and coaching to other colleagues in the team and the wider business.
  The role will be to work as part of a 6-person team providing extended hours, technical interrogation, and Incident Management support in the Control Room, working 12-hour shifts.