Jr2874 Alarm Optimisation Specialist

Role: Alarm Optimisation Specialist
Employment Type: Permanent
Hours: 38 hours

**Salary**: Up to £37,000 per annum
Location: Durrington (2/3 office and rest can be worked from home)

**The role comes with a comprehensive benefits package including a Business Needs Car, Bupa Health Cash Plan, eligibility for a company bonus and more.**

It's an exciting time to join us

Here at Southern Water, we do much more than you probably think and offer a huge variety or roles, professions, and career paths. Our key teams and departments include Customer Services, Water and Wastewater Operations, Engineering and Construction and Health and Safety. Plus, we have our corporate support teams including IT, HR and Finance. So, whoever you are and whatever your background we’ve a meaningful career right here, ready for you to dive into.

We are currently recruiting for an Alarm Optimisation (AO) Specialists to work within a team that is focused on improving the quality of alarms and telemetry data that is received within the Operational Control department through various activities and continuous improvement. The AO specialist provides a critical link between the field operations teams and the regional control centre by gathering information and knowledge from the experts within the field and suggesting solutions that other team members will incorporate in the front-end solutions.

The team strives in working continuously to ensure Southern Water meets our pollution targets and deadline and committed to reduce pollution to 0% by 2040. You will be actively working to drive to reduce our leakage and incidence within the business as part of the key requirement of the role. Reporting to the Alarm Optimisation Manager, you will be part of a team that consist of 4 Water and Wastewater specialist driving to improve the delivery of our wider team of Operational Control Centre.

To be successful in this role, you need to have passion in driving standards across and within the business to make the required improvements to alarms estate. You have a great opportunity to shape and explore creativity to produce innovation in managing alarm optimisation and reducing volumes. Being a natural innovator, you will have desire to diversify operating models and thrive on innovation, discovering new ways of working and be proud of implementing and witnessing the evolution which will be a significant difference that you will be making in this role.

With your collaborative skills, you will be highly engaged in managing stakeholder relationships and networking within our control centre hub within the business.

Our current improvements made over the last annual period, looking at 25% in alarm reduction into the OCC. With a key interest in driving innovation and bringing the change, with your innovative mindset you will be working towards aligning standards within the business to achieve our regulatory compliance requirement.

**Salary**: Up to £37,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Gym membership

Supplemental pay types:

- Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Durrington on Sea: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Information Security: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person