Sampler - Clean Water
Sampler - Clean Water
Starting Salary £24,587 + shift allowance
Part Time / 21 hours working 4 on 4 off / Permanent
Travel across the Hartlepool area
Become part of our sampling team!
Before it reaches our customer's tap, drinking water is cleaned, disinfected and tested to ensure it's safe to be consumed; after the water has been flushed and poured into our sewers, it's delivered to our water recycling works, where it's cleaned before it gets passed back to nature, where it's also tested to ensure it's not going to damage the environment.
We analyse and test hundreds of clean water and final effluent samples everyday.
As a valued employee, you'll be entitled to:
- ?Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
- Excellent family friendly policies such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave as well as 4 weeks for paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay is also available.
- 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
- Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
- Life Cover at 8x 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
What will you be doing?
Joining the scientific sampling team using your methodical and scientific approach, you'll travel around the Hartlepool area visiting Anglian Water's water treatment works and recycling centres, boreholes, reservoirs, rivers and customer properties collecting water samples and carrying out on-site chlorine tests.
Following vital scientific processes, you'll continuously work within the regulatory guidelines, meeting our quality standards. You'll prepare various sampling bottles, ensuring the accuracy of every single sample that you collect; you'll then return the samples to the laboratory for them to be thoroughly analysed.
The work you'll do is critical to the whole scientific analysis process; you really will make a difference.
You'll build effective working relationships with your colleagues back in the laboratory, who are relying on your high levels of service and you'll also engage with customers, where you'll be representing Anglian Water in a professional and approachable manner delivering excellent customer service.
For a further insight into the role click here to hear from Neal who is one of our dedicated Samplers.
What do you need?
It's essential that you have a scientific background or A Level qualification (or equivalent); you'll also be a reliable and professional individual with experience of providing excellent customer service.
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.
If successful in your application, you will benefit from access to a company vehicle; you must hold a full UK driving licence and live within the Hartlepool area. You will also require a Basic DBS check.
Anglian Water is a 365 day a year operation, you'll have a flexible approach to your role and be required to take part in a standby rota, which may include weekend and evening sampling.
Closing Date: 12th July 2024
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