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Job Title: Assistant Process Operator (APO)

Location: Henfield

Perm/FTC : Permanent

Hours: 37 Hours per week,

Monday – Friday

Starting Salary: £25,371 per annum.

Why Southern Water?

Each day, 4.6 million people across Sussex, Kent, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight count on us for their essential water and wastewater services. We call it ensuring water for life.

Do you want to make a difference? At Southern Water, your work will help to enhance health and wellbeing, protect and improve the environment and sustain the economy. You’ll also play an important role in helping us deliver a resilient water future for the South East.

Are you a natural collaborator with a strong moral compass and high standards? If so, you’ll fit right in. Everything we do is underpinned by three values: succeeding together, doing the right thing and always improving.

Do you want to bring your authentic self to work every day? We do too. That’s why we’re building an inclusive culture and are proud to offer equal opportunities regardless of age, cultural background, disability, gender, marital status, nationality, political belief, race, religion, or sexual orientation. We believe the unique perspectives and experiences each of us brings make us stronger together.

Your Role

Southern Water are currently recruiting an Assistant Process Operator to undertake general site upkeep activities and general duties across our Water Storage Reservoirs (WSR) and Water Booster Stations (WBS) sites in Sussex. You will be required to arrange and accompany contractors and visitors to sites. Your primary role is reservoir site security, booster checks, maintaining site compliance, hatch cover cleaning, and general site upkeep within the infrastructure and escalation of works. The role comes with a comprehensive benefits package including eligibility for annual bonus scheme, BUPA health cash plan (offers cash back and reimbursement on everyday health needs, such as prescription charges, dental bills etc), business use only van and Employee Assistant Programme.

You will be required to deal with several different contacts primarily from outside the Company and programme and accompany them to sites within our policy and procedures. You will need to develop a professional working relationship with both our external contracted partners, other stakeholders as well as internal support teams. Making appointments for visitors (via Schedulers) and accompanying visitors/contractors ensuring safe access, egress to working areas and always ensuring the security of the site with general maintenance and housekeeping. The role requires strict adherence to health and safety rules under the H&S at work ACT 1974 (and 2015 amendments). As a result the use of varied business applications forms an integral part of the role.

Your Job as an Assistant Process Operator:

• The upkeep of sites to a very high standard

• Ensure site compliance

• Identify and escalate infrastructural issues within the framework

• Complete weekly batch of jobs without accumulating a backlog

• Maintain site compliance to ISO(phone number removed) standard

• Manage the safety of visitors, both to internal and external, and provide access

• Be flexible to react to impromptu events and requests

• Develop and maintain good relationships with key stakeholders

• Team player

• Customer liaise-ons

The successful candidate will ideally have the following experience and knowledge:

• Knowledge of ISO9001 is an advantage, or has previously worked in a water production environment.

• Knowledge of Water Booster Stations, Water supply reservoirs and Water treatment works.

• An awareness of ISO14001 Environmental Management.

• Works well as a team and have the ability to work unsupervised.

• Good communication skills.

• Some experience of dealing with customers and arranging appointments

• General G.C.S.E. / ’O’ levels of which two must be to grade C or above in English language and Maths / Science.

• Water hygiene card

Essential must have:

• Valid UK driving licence as a company van will be provided

• Be willing to learn

Privacy Statement:

Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered

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