Catchment Planner

Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.
- Catchment Planner (both permanent and fixed terms roles available)
- Do you want to play a key role in reducing the risk of flooding from new Developments to homes and businesses across Scotland? Do you enjoy influencing and driving improvements to how we deliver for our customers?
- An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen for several motivated and skilled individuals to join us as Catchment Planners, as part of a new team within the Wastewater Service Strategy flooding team. The roles will be focused on assessing risk to the performance of our assets from new development. You will have the opportunity to help shape the direction of this new team to be the most effective it can be.
- What you’ll be doing
- Your primary role will be to support our colleagues in Development Services and SCSP Wastewater Services to identify and assess potential risk levels from a variety of new development scenarios. You will use your experience and understanding of wastewater networks to confirm the appropriate level of assessment required to evaluate risk and potential capacity constraints within our assets.
- Where impact assessments are required, you will input key information and expertise from a strategic catchment planning perspective.
- You will need to collaborate with colleagues across Scottish Water to develop knowledge and be able to identify and highlight asset and customer impact priority concerns. You must consider multiple factors from a variety of data sources and be able to support clear and efficient decision making within agreed SLAs.
- As part of this team, you will play a key role in shaping how we support key areas of the business and how we can continually improve the scope and accuracy of our input. You will need to be open to finding new and better ways of working to meet our strategic objectives with a commitment to continual improvement. As this is a new team you will need to actively input to process creation and improvement and take the lead on initiatives.
- The role is suitable for flexible and hybrid working but you will be required to work occasionally from offices within the central belt.
- Essential Skills and Knowledge- Good understanding of wastewater networks, surface water networks and hydraulic modelling-
- Ability to understand and communicate complex issues to internal and external stakeholders-
- Analytical, organised and conscientious in seeking the evidence necessary for critical decision-making-
- Experience of using GIS and/or hydraulic modelling software-
- Ability to be reflective of work undertaken and support iterative process improvementDesirable Skills and Knowledge- Experience and / or knowledge of drainage impact assessments-
- Business change management skills-
- Ability to identify and implement improvement to existing processes- Both permanent and fixed terms roles available - please state your preference when applying
- Salary Scale: £35,384 - £47,924
- Other benefits include:
- 38 days of holiday per year (including public holidays) with the option to buy 5 more-
- Eligibility to join the defined benefit, contributory pension scheme-
- Annual company bonus-
- Life assurance scheme-
- Paid time off for community volunteering-
- Opportunities to be involved in sports, social and fundraising activities-
- Access to "SW Splash", saving you money on holidays, bills and shopping-
- Excellent family friendly policies around Adoption, Maternity, Parental Leave, and Flexible WorkingDo you have any support needs?

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