Summary:
Do you want to ensure the water we supply is safe and clean?
Are you a dependable and reliable person? Do you work with a high degree of accuracy?
We want to be the water company people want to be supplied by and want to work for.
As a Compliance Sampler in Water Quality, you’ll help ensure the water we supply to our customers is wholesome and meets both our own and regulatory quality standards.
You don't need any previous experience. You’re well organised, enjoy using your initiative and determined in your approach. This is a field-based role where you'll collect water samples across different areas of the Eastbourne / Hailsham area. We provide a company vehicle.
The water samples you collect will come from a variety of locations; including reservoirs, treatment works or customer properties. So, you’re comfortable speaking to customers and explaining why and how you’re there to help them. It’s your attention to detail that will enable you to ensure all paperwork, electronic records, water tests and samples are collected and recorded exactly as they are meant to be and in line with regulatory and company standards.
You will start your day at 6:30/7am and finish around 3pm. After the initial training period (around 2 weeks), you will be put on a weekend rota where you will deliver water samples to our laboratory in Farnborough. Whilst you will be based from our office in Pembury, Kent, you will spend the majority of your day out on the field. You will be visiting a number of sites and customers, so it’s crucial that you are comfortable with planning your own day and ensuring deadlines are met.
Sampling takes place on Bank Holidays as well (Easter/Christmas/New Years). Although you won’t be working bank holidays every year, you will need to be flexible to work them at some point.
If you enjoy the prospect of taking responsibility for your own performance, working in a variety of outdoor spaces and comfortable driving long distances, this is a great opportunity to take up an engaging field-based role.
Main responsibilities:
- The collection of samples from a variety of locations and undertake water quality investigations.
- Performing on-site tests and quality control checks in accordance with South East Water and the Water Quality regulatory standards.
- Planning your routes and self-managing your time to ensure deadlines are met.
- Ensuring all paperwork and electronic records are maintained to the required standard.
- Organising sampling in conjunction with water production staff to ensure the plant is running at time of sampling.
- Taking part in a weekend rota, where you will deliver samples to our laboratory in Farnborough
- You'll need: Skills / Qualifications / Experience
- A valid driving licence is essential
- Good level of numeracy and literacy skills
- Good customer service being comfortable speak with customers and explaining why and how you’re there to help them
- Confident with IT / Computers
It will be a bonus if you have:
Skills / Qualifications / Experience
- Understanding of water sampling process
We want to be the water company people want to be supplied by and want to work for.
We know the communities we serve are diverse. We recognise creativity comes from diversity not similarity. That’s why we are enthusiastic about creating inclusion across age, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and identity. You will experience our dedication to equal opportunities and fair treatment for all: through your recruitment, employment and career progression with South East Water.
Benefits package:
- Excellent Stakeholder pension scheme, up to 10% employer contribution.
- 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays per annum, increasing to 6 weeks with length of service.
- Flexible annual leave policy to buy or sell holiday leave.
- Paid volunteering days.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Health cash plan.
- Life assurance.
- Wellbeing related benefits.
What can you expect from your recruitment?
- To apply for this position, please submit your CV on our career’s website.
- It is necessary for you to have the legal right to work in the UK when you begin employment with South East Water.
- Additionally, as part of the employment offer, you will need to pass background, identity, and employment referencing checks.
If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for, apply now!
South East Water kindly asks that recruitment agencies refrain from submitting CVs to our employees or associates without explicit invitation from our HR Resourcing team. CVs sent on a speculative basis will not be acknowledged and will not assume any responsibility for fees or commissions in the event that we hire a candidate who applied directly or subsequently introduced by an instructed agency.
Compensation package:
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