Environmental Sampler

Starting Salary - £24,587 per annum

Full Time / 37 hours per week / Permanent

Covering Huntingdon, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Kettering, Wellingborough, Bedford areas

The quality of our analysis starts with you!

Anglian Water collect and analyse hundreds of samples everyday. We ensure the water our customers consume is safe and the water that's released back in to the environment is free from harmful substances that could be damaging.

As the Environmental Sampler, you'll join a team of field based samplers who play a crucial part in the water monitoring and analysis process, obtaining samples from rivers and Anglian Water's Water Recycling Centres, including sampling final effluent.

With every sample you take it's important that it's recorded and monitored in line with our regulatory procedures and is carried out in a timely, but safe, manner. Working to strict quality assurance procedures and accredited methodology utilising calibrated equipment, in order for the samples to be transported back and monitored in the laboratories to ensure compliance with Environment Agency Regulations for Operator Self Monitoring (OSM) and Urban Wastewater Treatment Regulations (UWWTR).

Our laboratory and customers rely heavily on your high level of service. You'll be provided with a van and will represent Anglian Water in a professional and approachable manner. You'll need to enjoy working with people and building working relationships.

If you are interested in working within the water industry, enjoy being out on the road and want to join a company that can offer you a high standard of training and career development then come on board and share your inquisitive mind with our team.

You'll be a reliable and professional individual, who has obtained a scientific qualification.

You'll need to be comfortable with manual lifting and driving throughout the day. This role will find you working in a variety of environments, therefore a flexible and can do attitude is essential.

The ability to work within a defined method and record information accurately means you'll need focus and a strong attention to detail. Successful candidates will enjoy driving and working on their own whilst working within a larger team. You should thrive in a time critical role, be self-motivated and able to work in an organised manner ensuring all work is undertaken as specified by our methods and procedures.

Experience working with environmental samples would be advantageous.

Anglian Water is a 365 day a year operation. You will have a flexible approach to your role and be required to take part in a standby rota, which will include weekend and evening sampling. Due to the standby element, you must live within a reasonable distance from the Huntingdon area.

Being a successful water company doesn't come easy! Our people are important to us and we want to make sure that we reward and recognise all of the great work that they do. Some of our benefits include:

• Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%

• Personal private health care

• Annual bonus scheme

• 25 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

• Life Cover at 8x your salary

• Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

• Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme

• Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks

• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay

We are passionate and committed to the learning and development of our people making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We also take Health and Safety very seriously in everything that we do.

If you are offered a job with us, you'll be subject to the relevant/standard employment checks, including: your right to work in the UK, reference, driving licence and identity check. Depending on your role, you may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

If successful in your application, you will benefit from access to a company vehicle, so a full driving licence is essential.

Closing date: 26th August 2024

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