Pollution Coordinator

**Job Description**:
**Who are we?**
- Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes,_
**keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing**. At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open.

**The Pollution Co-ordinator is part of a team overseeing the effective operation of 366 Sewage Treatment Works and over 7000 sewage pumping stations across London and the Thames Valley.**

As a Pollution Co-ordinator working in the Waste System Operations Control Room, you will be responsible for protecting our customers from flooding and the local environment from pollution, by ensuring both urgent and proactive field responses to potential issues identified on our wastewater systems. The increasing introduction of new smart tools will allow you to increase the proactive approach to your work in the future.

**What you will be doing?**
- Working in Thames Waters Wastewater Control Room, which is co-located with the Clean Water Control Room and our Logistics Control Centre.-
- Desktop risk assessments to understand pollution risk for reported potential pollutions from both clean water sites and wastewater sites and their associated piped and sewers networks.- Arranging urgent field responses- You will co-ordinate multiple pollution responses to ensure that pollution impact is ideally prevented, or minimised and pollution recovery is achieved as soon as possible.- Providing notification and updates to the Environmental Agency and Natural England- Accurate logging of the information received, and the decisions and actions taken.**We are looking for you to have**:

- Proactive, organised, and methodical approach to allow you to effectively manage peaks in works load that typically occur during wet weather.- Ability to accurately analyse information, make decisions and present conclusions in a time pressured situation.- Good communication and interpersonal skills for day-to-day liaison with colleagues, stakeholders, and customers- Knowledge and passion for environmental protection-
- Driving license will be beneficial to facilitate working from disaster recovery sites if required. However not essential.- Desire to learn and use new systems and technology and to support their implementation.- Experience that demonstrates proactive, organised, and methodical approach to workload and ability to manage a high volume of work in a prioritised order.**What's in it for you?**

**Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service and**
**a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.**

**Thames Water is a dynamic, rewarding, and diverse place to work, with opportunities around every corner. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career and flexible working arrangements.**

Find out more about working at Thames Water
We deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and the environment can thrive. This means, when a crisis happens, we all rally round to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an Ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and a earn bit of extra money along the way.