Water Treatment Works Controller

**Water Treatment Works Controller**:

- Salary up to £34,409 (depending on experience)- Location Chigwell Water Treatment Works**About the role**

**Water Treatment Works Controller**

**Full time 38 hours per week**

**Salary **from up to £34,409 (depending on experience)**

**Based Chigwell Water Treatment Works**

**About the role**

We now have an opportunity for a Treatment Works Controller to join the team who operate & maintain water treatment assets across our South Essex Water Supply area.

Working as part of a team, you will be responsible for operating and controlling key water treatment assets at Chigwell Water Treatment Works and other sites within the area. Within this role you will conduct tasks in all conditions to ensure these process assets operate correctly and efficiently, undertaking fault investigations and taking appropriate critical actions when issues are found.

You’ll carry out routine water quality analysis, make adjustments to treatment processes, monitor and control flow rates, undertake plant checks, front line maintenance tasks, validation checks on various types of instrumentation and complete both paper and electronic records.

As part of this role, you will participate in out of hours standby rota requiring you to be available on a call-out basis to attend the site to resolve urgent issues overnight and at weekends.

Full training will be provided to undertake the various technical aspects of this role.

This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test.

Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked

**About you**

Our Treatment Works Controllers play a key role in maintaining the quality and quantity of water through our treatment sites and processes, therefore, we are looking for people who have a strong focus on quality and are comfortable with the analysis and interpretation of data. We are looking for strong problem solvers with logical minds and the determination and focus to find the solution to any challenge. We need people who are happy to undertake a variety of tasks in all conditions and enjoy working outside, as well as inside, providing a 24/7 service to our customers - whatever the weather

If you have a full driving licence and experience of working in a technical environment, and would like a role that will engage you physically and mentally, in a great company, we want to hear from you.

**About us**

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.

**Our values**

Our values describe our main principles, qualities and attributes. They are the guiding principles which define who we are, what we do and how we do it. They make us different from our competitors and guide our decisions and actions to drive us towards our vision.

Our values are:
Results Driven
- We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.

Ethical
- We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.

Customer Focused
- We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.

Innovative
- We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.

One Team
- We work together consistently, promoting co-operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.

**Colleague benefits**

We’re the great company we are because of you - our people. As our way of saying thanks, we offer you a wide range of benefits and discounts to take advantage of.

To find out more about our benefits, see our benefits booklet attached to this advert.

Eyecare

Discounted Medicals

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle2work

Buying & selling annual leave

Long service awards

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Computer
Loans

Award winning wellbeing site

NWG savings scheme

Company pension scheme

Pre-retirement workshops

Life assurance

Christmas savings club

Discounts & cashback offers

Qualification loan