Southern Water

Spills Lead

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Location
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/5/2025
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Description
Closing Date

2025-08-29

Job Title: Spills Lead

Location: Falmer, Sussex (2 days in the office and 3 days working from home)

There will be the occasional requirement to travel to our sites 1-2 days a month.

Hours: 37 hours per week

Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!

About The Role

Known internally as a 'Spills Lead'; this is an exciting opportunity to work with the data relating to water spills across our region, working with data reported in from ASPIRE and “Rivers and Seas Watch” when there have been overspills from rainwater.

This will be both a reactive and pro-active role; reacting to when there is heavy rain fall and large quantities of data to analyse, as well as being proactive taking a wider view of what this data means, analysing trends in the data and working on continuous improvement efforts.

These activities will drive the step change required to enable the near time notification to the public facing “Rivers and Seas Watch” app to verify the genuinely of spills, you will provide operational MI to enable Southern Water’s zero non-compliant spills strategy to be realised and align with longer term strategic goals of spill forecasting.

This role will also require undertaking root cause analysis of spills and interact with wider industry and peers to understand best practice and innovation.

You will be liaising with third parties regarding spills, providing requested data and offering advice based on findings.

Spill rota membership staffed by trained members of OP&I to validate out of hours spills on a dry day, as well as weekend working for incident support 1 in 8 weeks minimum.

What We’re Looking For

  • Excellent analytical and numerical skills
  • Great Microsoft Excel skills
  • Proactive and critical thinker
  • Highly organised and loves a challenge
  • Tenacity & ability to work at pace to deadlines with good attention to detail
  • Very confident learning and using a variety of IT systems
  • Have a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for ad-hoc site visits
  • A keen interest in the environment.

Benefits

We are offering a salary of up to £50,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

  • Up to 11% employer pension contribution
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • Health cash plan, life assurance, digital GP access
  • Volunteering days, study support, and flexible return-to-work options
  • Cycle to work and electric car salary sacrifice schemes
  • Discounts with over 800 retailers.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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