Treatment Works Controller

Salary
- **up to £38,802 depending on experience**
- Location
- **Langford Recyling Plant, Hatfield Peveral, Essex, United Kingdom**

**About the role**

**Water Treatment Works Controller (day)**

**Full time 38 hours per week**

**Salary up to** £38,802** per annum depending on experience**

**Based Langford Recycling Plant (LRP)**

**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 Essex Water Supply area.

Working as part of a team, you will be responsible for operating and controlling key water treatment assets at Langford Recycling Plant. 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, adjust 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.

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.

**What we will give you**

At Northumbrian/Essex & Suffolk Water we want you to be the best you can be and we also want you to feel it’s a great place to work. Frequently people spend their career with us, some because they’ve found their niche, others because of the opportunities to progress through the organisation.

We’re the great company we are because of our people and as our way of saying thanks, we offer a wide range of benefits and discounts to take advantage of including buying and selling holidays, discounts and cashback offers, free fishing and cycle2work.

**About us**

Northumbrian/Essex & Suffolk Water is more than just a water company. We are one team, fulfilling many roles, working together to ensure our customers have clean, fresh, running water, whilst providing great customer service, protecting the environment, and supporting local communities.

We Live Water, all our amazing people are helping us become the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services

**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.

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