What you’ll be responsible for
Working closely with our operational colleagues for the identification, planning and delivery of solutions to improve and/or optimise our wastewater treatment plants. Responsbilities will include:
- Supporting our operational colleagues with ensuring smooth day-to-day running of our wastewater treatment processes in line with our regulatory obligations and business targets such as:
- 100 environmental compliance with UWW, UV, nutrients, habitats, PFF
- Reducing operational costs
- Customer satisfaction
- Delivery of environmental monitoring programmes - Assisting with the delivery of our Research&Innovation programme for wastewater treatment
- Implementing best practices for wastewater treatment processes and ensuring adequate governance is observed
- Attending escalations and provide practical solutions in a real time fashion to prevent failures
- Delivering pro-active investigations and health checks as indicated by the management team
- Assisting with:
-Determining the best strategy for alarm management
- Monitoring the completion of OSM sampling and compliance outcomes
- The use and management of remote technology for monitoring the treatment process and performance
- Communications with the regulator such as control, issue and recording of OpNOTs and UVNOTs - Assist in influencing, developing and implementing ‘improvement programmes’ in line with QMS procedures
- Ensuring that all sampling and analytical equipment is fit for purpose and calibrated as needed
- Collating, analysing scientific data and preparing reports to deadlines
- Work closely with the Trade Effluent team to identify remedial actions, assist with collection of trader samples or pollution investigations as required
- Assisting in the commissioning of new capital schemes and as requested providing process support to capital schemes
- Attend meetings as necessary and represent wastewater science
- Ensure procedures and activities comply with all H&S legislation and DCWW Health & Safety policy in maintaining a safe working environment
- Supporting the management team with developing and maintaining a database of process equipment, biological and analytical information on DCWW wastewater assets
Who you’ll work with
Internal
- Welsh Water management team – Operations, Assets, Energy, Biosolids, SmartHub, H&S, HR
- Welsh Water Contract Partners – suppliers, alliance partners and delivery managers
- Welsh Water Wastewater Service management team colleagues
External
- Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales
- Local Authorities
About you
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Scientific background with the minimum of HNC or equivalent experience
- Have experience of wastewater and sludge treatment processes and legislation
- Experience of influencing people and demonstrating performance
- Ability to deliver root cause analysis, plan and deliver solutions
- Ability to communicate ideas and targets to others, especially other team members
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Computer literate, particularly good knowledge of MS ‘Word’ and ‘Excel’. Ability to be quickly trained in mainframe scientific database systems
- Health and Safety awareness
- Full driving license and ability to travel as job requires
Good to know
- This role includes site based working, with some occasional hybrid working
