Water Supply Production Flexible Operator

Salary
- **£26,450 up to £33,062**
- Location
- **Horsley WTW**

**About the role**

**Water Supply Production Flexible Operator**

**Full time **-** 37 Hours per week**

**Salary **-** **£**26,450 up to **£**33,062**

**Location **-** Horsley WTW**

**About the role**

We have a great opportunity to join our Water Supply team here at Northumbrian Water, as a Water Supply Production Operator, ensuring we deliver great high-quality drinking water for our customers.

There’s so much more to the production of great quality drinking water than meets the eye and this key role here at Northumbrian Water is at the front of leading our customer satisfaction of the product. There are so many steps in the process of taking raw water from rivers and reservoirs to then treating it and distributing it to our customers.

Our Flexible Operators work alone and alongside the Shift Operator, monitoring water quality at multiple stages of the treatment process to maintain compliance. You’ll to be working with chemicals in the role to ensure we are disinfecting the water effectively to make sure it leaves the site at the right quality.

You’ll be outside a lot of the time wearing Personal Protective Equipment working your way around the site and will be responsible for process unit cleaning, along with emptying and jetting process unit tanks to remove waste material, so it can get messy at times too.

As a Flexible Operator you will support the shift team, covering positions in the rota where the Shift operators cannot attend their shift because of leave or training for example.

We are looking for you to operate the treatment process, you’ll be using the site SCADA electronic system to operate and monitor the process along with responding to alarms and alerts. You’ll adjust water production volumes to meet customer water demand while complying with quality parameters. Working with chemicals and validating and calibrating instruments will be key to your role in effectively operating the treatment process. You’ll be using laboratory testing and recording results for regulatory auditing and to support decision making in operating the site.

Who knew there was so much to making our amazing water that comes out of your tap
- 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**

We’re looking for you to have proven experience operating treatment or production processes, alongside working with chemicals and working in confined spaces to complete planned and reactive maintenance activities, which are required to deliver a quality product or process. Experience using SCADA systems and working with analytical instruments is desirable.

You’ll have experience of using various equipment and processes to ensure you follow procedures and have health and safety at the forefront of everything you do. You’ll have experience of using instrumentation to validate and calibrate a process to be successful in your role.

We’ve mentioned the role is outdoors, so you will need to be comfortable with working outside in all weathers day and night, along with being happy and confident to work alone too. This isn’t for everyone.

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**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