Spills Lead

Closing Date

Job Title: Spills Lead
Location: Falmer, Sussex (2 days in the office and 3 days working from home)
**There will be the occasional requirement to travel to our sites 1-2 days a month.

Hours: 37 hours per week

Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience**
There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint

About The Role
Known internally as a 'Spills Lead'; this is an exciting opportunity to work with the data relating to water spills across our region, working with data reported in from ASPIRE and "Rivers and Seas Watch" when there have been overspills from rainwater.

This will be both a reactive and pro-active role; reacting to when there is heavy rain fall and large quantities of data to analyse, as well as being proactive taking a wider view of what this data means, analysing trends in the data and working on continuous improvement efforts.

These activities will drive the step change required to enable the near time notification to the public facing "Rivers and Seas Watch" app to verify the genuinely of spills, you will provide operational MI to enable Southern Water's zero non-compliant spills strategy to be realised and align with longer term strategic goals of spill forecasting.

This role will also require undertaking root cause analysis of spills and interact with wider industry and peers to understand best practice and innovation.

You will be liaising with third parties regarding spills, providing requested data and offering advice based on findings.

Spill rota membership staffed by trained members of OP&I to validate out of hours spills on a dry day, as well as weekend working for incident support 1 in 8 weeks minimum.

What We're Looking For

• Excellent analytical and numerical skills
• Great Microsoft Excel skills
• Proactive and critical thinker
• Highly organised and loves a challenge
• Tenacity & ability to work at pace to deadlines with good attention to detail
• Very confident learning and using a variety of IT systems
• Have a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for ad-hoc site visits
• A keen interest in the environment

Benefits
We are offering a salary of up to £50,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Up to 11% employer pension contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Health cash plan, life assurance, digital GP access
• Volunteering days, study support, and flexible return-to-work options
• Cycle to work and electric car salary sacrifice schemes
• Discounts with over 800 retailers.

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That's why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you'll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

Privacy Statement
Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.