Flow & Spills Technical Specialist in Leeds

Location: Mobile worker, hybrid working with two to three days visiting our sites across the Yorkshire Water network. Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday.

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, 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.

The Flow and Spill Technical Specialists will play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional performance across all areas related to storm overflows, including Pass Forward flow compliance, storm overflow reduction, storm storage optimisation, and network optimisation. This role involves close collaboration with both operational and project delivery teams to ensure action plans are aligned across the business. It is critical to achieving 100% compliance with environmental permits and driving the company’s environmental performance across these metrics.

Where you fit in! As our Flow and Spill Technical Specialist you will:

• Analysis and Interpretation: Analyse and interpret spill and flow‑related operational performance information, proactively identifying and implementing corrective actions in alignment with Health and Safety standards. Escalate regulatory or performance risks to the regulatory operational performance manager as appropriate.
• Action Plans: Create, track, and report on site and regional action plans to ensure all wastewater process spill and flow‑related activities comply with legislation and regulatory obligations while achieving internal company performance targets.
• Technical Direction: Provide scientific, technical, and practical direction required for the short and medium‑term operation of spill and flow‑related assets.
• Performance Tracking: Utilize performance data to track flow and overflow performance and demonstrate the benefits of interventions. Analyse and explain operational performance data and review performance reports with the Flow & Spill Technical Manager and operational managers.
• Regulatory Compliance: Contribute to the provision of information for regulatory returns and EA correspondence. Take a lead role in ensuring quality assurance documents are developed and maintained in alignment with business requirements.
• Risk Management: Develop suitable risk registers to support Asset Planning in identifying risks and issues, monitoring strategic performance requirements, and prioritising risks and issues for investment or operational management.
• Collaboration: Work with operational teams to ensure that unfunded flow compliance and overflow risks are appropriately mitigated and tracked.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct meetings and workshops with internal stakeholders to establish and agree on operational action plans and investment needs.
• Carry out desktop and onsite investigations into flow and spill performance.
• Optimise onsite assets to improve flow compliance and reduce storm overflow discharges.
• Educate and provide technical expertise to operational colleagues on flow and spill compliance and performance.

Skills, Experience, and Qualifications Required:

• Experience working in wastewater with process understanding and wastewater network experience would be beneficial.
• Excellent environmental compliance knowledge, experience, and passion.
• Be experienced in conflict resolution, change management and strategy delivery.
• Good organisational and planning skills.
• Good analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex issues to others.
• Have previous experience of operating within a regulated industry or framework and environmental regulatory understanding.
• Experience with implementing management systems.
• Processes and procedure creation and improvement.
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaborative working.
• Be able to work comfortably and influence across multiple levels of the business and externally.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship‑building skills and be able to coach less experienced team members.
• Ability to acquire, understand, interpret, and disseminate information, both technical and financial.

You would also benefit from having:

• Previous experience with managing/leading people.

Do we sound like your cup of tea? If you’ve got experience in wastewater with process understanding and compliance and want to help us deliver great service for our customers whilst looking after the environment, then be sure to apply today to find out what a career with Yorkshire Water can offer you.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, from £42,881 to £50,709 depending on experience.
• Business Needs Users (BNU) classification with eligible Company Car or Cash Allowance (£3,000 per annum) subject to company criteria.
• Annual incentive‑related bonus (£1,000 maximum bonus opportunity for the performance year).
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution).
• Development opportunities in line with the Flow and Spill Technical Specialist progression plan.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays plus two extra wellness days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary.
• 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.

Closing Date: 31st July 2026.

Additional Information: If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre‑employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third‑Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter‑Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance. All our roles are subject to a medical questionnaire, and further medicals when required. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible. If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition that requires changes to the recruitment process, please include this information in your application. We will then discuss any reasonable adjustments required. Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

Equal Opportunity Statement: All applicants will be considered fairly and without bias. Yorkshire Water is a diverse organization, encouraging candidates of all nationalities and backgrounds to apply. GDPR best practice is observed and all personal data is retained and secured in the period of the application process and kept for a period of 2 years should a job offer have been made when unsuccessful. We do not provide personal data to third parties; we only use it in application processing.