Technical Co-ordinator

Closing Date

18/06/2023

**Job Description**:
Role: Technical Co-ordinator

Employment Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours a week plus a 1 in 9 standby rota

**Salary**: Starting Salary £34,288 plus additional standby and call out payments.

Location: Horsham

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 looking for someone to use their knowledge and keen eye for quality to ensure compliance standards on our water production sites in Horsham a is always upheld. This involves undertaking site audits to ensure site cleanliness, site safety, environmental management, and maintenance tasks are consistently undertaken, and meet our internal compliance standards. As such you will demonstrate a strong technical and operational background, with clear drive for continuous improvement. You will be key team player, assisting Field performance managers deliver work or by stepping in to help coordinate or support the team during an operational event, or in the delivery of work to address health and safety risks in the Sussex area. You will use your strong communication skills to engage with contractors, ensuring that quality work is delivered safely and to budget, and is compliant with key regulations. An important element of your role will be managing spot audits by our regulators and liaise effectively with them and associated governing bodies. You will travel to various sites and reside close enough for a standby arrangement every 9 weeks.

You will be responsible for the effective running of the team in the absence of the Field performance manager as they will deputise for leave and delegated requirements, meeting performance continuity for an operational area and role succession. Indeed, this role can be as a fantastic platform for skilled and talented individuals to progress into management and leadership roles in the future.

This role is varied with an opportunity to work in a wide range of diverse activities across a number of sites with a wide range of contractors and Southern Water staff. To be considered for this role you will need to have experience in the utilities section, ideally water.

At Southern Water we are committed to offer flexibility and a broad range of benefits to reward and recognise the difference you make and succeeding together with the others to achieve our goal. View our benefit page here
- Benefits (southernwater.co.uk)