Senior Storage Point Scientist in Huntingdon

We are recruiting for a Senior Storage Point Scientist to join our Quality, Environment and Assurance team! You will lead and develop a team of Storage Point Scientists to ensure that the optimum quality water is provided to our customers from storage points across the region. You will provide senior technical expert scientific advice to the business and to your team, being the technical expert within your team. With line management responsibilities you will mentor and develop the capabilities, confidence and skills within your team. You will use your expertise to identify and mitigate risks ahead of time and develop effective solutions in mitigating risks. You will continually seek to understand new ways of working and using different/new technology to support the continuous improvement of our storage point risk profile and ability to build robust risk mitigation solutions. Working predominantly onsite, you will manage projects to provide effective and optimised storage point operation to mitigate business risk, whilst maintaining wholesome water to our customers. Your understanding and asset experience will be used to enable capital schemes to get the best out of the storage points. You’ll effectively manage your time, balancing time on site and in the office to provide the outcomes needed for the business. You’ll work from site with colleagues 4 days per week. You will be part of a Regional out of hours standby support for the business.

Key responsibilities

• Enable operations and scientists alike to develop and challenge the operation of storage points to provide storage of wholesome and safe water optimally.
• Enable proactive interventions on site to support future risk mitigation to customers.
• Develop and ensure delivery of water quality-related source-to-source optimisation strategies, balancing risks to water quality with regulatory requirements and cost and carbon implications.
• Ensure that a consistent approach is taken with regard to water quality risk information and its use within the capital delivery governance process, positively challenging to provide outcomes, enable progress and increase capital benefit.
• Be a critical stakeholder in the promotion of investment needs, highlighting all emerging water quality risks to capital stakeholders.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Health & Safety (H&S), ensuring consistent H&S standards are maintained.
• Provide out of hours Regional scientific standby cover, being able to provide scientific advice on any asset or area of the company.

What does it take to be successful?

• Educated to a degree level in relevant scientific subject or equivalent.
• Substantial experience of water processes or asset science.
• Team leadership and management skills – evidenced through previous experience.
• Able to critically evaluate information to take tactical or strategic action.
• Able to make decisions with limited information and put in place risk mitigation strategies.
• Interpersonal skills to build rapport with operational colleagues, whilst able to positively challenge and communicate actions/challenge required effectively.
• Able to mentor and influence those around you.
• Critical thinker looking at information provided and able to move forwards to develop a solution.

Benefits

• Personal private health care.
• Generous double match pension – contribute 7% and Anglian Water will contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21%.
• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household.
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more.
• Life assurance (up to 8× salary).
• Personal accident cover (up to 5× salary).
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave.
• Opportunity for shared parental pay.
• Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.