Abstraction Compliance Specialist

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Our people are what makes Severn Trent a truly exciting and inclusive place to work. We’re a team of over 7,000 people with a purpose to deliver one of life’s essentials. We do it all while thriving in our unique culture and making a lasting difference to our planet, society, and careers.

**If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you. There really is something for everyone here.**

**EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW**

Our Environmental Regulations & Permitting team have an opportunity for you to join as our new **Abstraction Compliance Specialist.**

You’ll be working with the team to ensure compliance with abstraction licences/permits and to drive continuous improvement across all aspects of abstraction.

Additionally, you will understand the detail within abstraction licences across the company and will use operational data to communicate with multiple teams and ensure that conditions and limits are adhered to.

Some of your other key accountabilities will include:

- Providing technical support on auditing/checking and reporting compliance with daily and annual limits in abstraction licences/permits. Collaborating with multiple teams to identify and deliver solutions to compliance issues
- Ensuring abstraction returns are submitted to regulatory timescales and investigating potential licence breaches to provide a report suitable for audit.
- Providing technical support on compensation flow management
- Ensuring effective relationships and built and maintained with Regulatory bodies including the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, OFWAT and Natural England
- Understanding and driving improvements in our EPA abstraction performance (new shadow measure for 2021) to ensure 4* rating.
- Taking ownership of workstreams for the company abstraction improvement programme to drive continuous improvement across the business

**WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE**

We're seeking our new Abstraction Compliance Specialist to have experience of data analysis and working with large amounts of data as well as having knowledge of water treatment processes and familiarity with environmental licencing and permitting regimes.

To be successful, you will ideally have knowledge of flow monitoring and a working knowledge of corporate systems i.e. TeRI BI, SAP, eSCADA, SCADA, Netbase and Sharepoint.

You will also need to have excellent verbal and written communication, an excellent understanding of data and the ability to communicate information to a range of audiences, including Strategic Leads and external stakeholders and attention to detail, spotting patterns/themes/anomalies.

The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity, and a caring attitude we want to talk to you too.

We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We want people who show up and get involved. Those who are ready to be part of something bigger and who want to make a difference because they care. **Is that you?**

**WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU**

Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent. We’ll reward you for it, too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.

With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Seven Trent family:

- Starting salary of £30,000- £40,000.
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
- Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,225 per annum based on company performance)
- Leading pension scheme - we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
- Sharesave - the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
- Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’
- Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
- Family friendly policies
- Two volunteering days per year

**WHAT’S NEXT**

**We can’t wait to hear from you.**

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