Field Crew Operative (Water Quality) in Swillington

We are seeking a Field Crew Operative (Water Quality) to join our team based in Leeds, working on water quality monitoring projects across the UK and occasionally in Ireland. In this role, you will primarily focus on water quality fieldwork, including the installation, calibration, and maintenance of water quality monitoring equipment, such as flow monitors, auto-samplers, and water quality sensors. Your contributions will play a key part in providing critical data that helps manage wastewater networks, monitor pollution levels, and improve the health of rivers and bathing waters. Your work will assist water companies and environmental agencies in achieving their regulatory compliance goals and improving water quality in local communities.

Typical Day of a Field Crew Operative

• Installing and maintaining water quality monitoring equipment in rivers, sewer systems, and other environmental sites
• Calibration of monitoring equipment and ensuring it is functioning properly to provide accurate data
• Collecting water samples from various sites for analysis, ensuring that samples are handled and stored according to quality standards
• Retrieving and logging data from monitoring equipment and ensuring it is recorded and maintained accurately
• Occasionally assisting with wastewater monitoring tasks, helping to install, calibrate, and maintain equipment used in wastewater management projects
• Ensuring health and safety procedures are strictly followed, especially in confined spaces and river environments
• Carrying and setting up equipment safely and efficiently

You’ll be working with your team to ensure all tasks are completed to the highest standards, and you will need to maintain a proactive and positive approach, especially when faced with challenging environments. The tasks you will undertake will include (but are not limited to):

• Flexibility with hours and working away from home is essential (accommodation and meals paid for by the company)
• A flexible approach to weekend work is essential, as well as occasional night shifts
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team in a variety of changing environments
• Strong work ethic, positive attitude, and the initiative to solve problems
• Comfort working around raw sewage and in confined spaces
• Full, clean, and valid UK driving licence
• Right to work in the UK

To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:

• Flexibility towards hours and working away from home (accommodation and meals are paid for by the company)
• A flexible approach to working at night and some infrequent weekend work is crucial
• Ability to work well within a team and with a variety of different people, as our teams swap and change
• Strong work ethic, positive and can-do attitude and ability to use your own initiative when faced with problems
• Comfortable working around raw sewage and in confined spaces
• Clean and valid driving licence
• Right to work in the UK

Travel and Flexibility

Travel across the UK is very common. Candidates must be open to working away from home during the week and accommodate night or evening shifts as needed.

About SOCOTEC Flow & Water Quality Monitoring

We provide market leading environmental data collection and monitoring services. Established over 30 years ago, Flow & Water Quality Monitoring give their clients peace of mind in supporting them to reduce environmental risks and improve the quality of their natural environment. Our customers include large blue-chip consultancies and water companies. We are an ambitious team who are focused on growth, putting our customers at the heart of what we do, and we live our values of happy people, happy customers, working safely and being successful. Our culture is can-do, fun and where everyone has a part to play and a voice.

What’s in it for you?

As well as a starting salary of £26,208 per year, which can increase as you develop and grow in the role, we can offer you a wide range of benefits including 25 days holiday with the opportunity to buy more, an electric car scheme (where applicable), employee recognition schemes, family friendly support, employee benefits and discounts app, employee assistance programmes, and enhanced company pension.

SOCOTEC UK are proud to be Disability Confident accredited.

Why SOCOTEC?

Here at SOCOTEC UK, we have over 2,000 colleagues across our divisions delivering world-class services to our customers. We have several business streams that provide an unrivalled range of testing, inspection, certification and advisory services throughout the UK, and we deliver excellence to our customers by recruiting and retaining the very best industry talent. At SOCOTEC, we believe that a driven, inspired and challenged team is the key to success. We promote inclusivity, encourage individuality and have a zero-tolerance policy to discrimination, with the aim that every single member of our team will thrive both in and out of the workplace. We invest in our people. We push you to grow and we want you to progress. We believe in continued development and the pursuit of ambition. Our open and friendly office space promotes a culture of teamwork and provides the opportunity to ask, listen and learn from those around you. With a young, dynamic and exciting workplace, we are constantly striving, as a team, to develop and succeed.

Think you’ve got what it takes to add value to our success? We would love to hear from you and look forward to receiving your application.

Building a safer and more sustainable world is the core mission we set out to achieve at SOCOTEC, it is at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to acting as a key player in society, investing in innovative solutions to ensure social and environmental concerns are at the forefront of all of our business operations.