Dwr cymru welsh water
Environmental Sampling Technician
Job Description
Date: 22 Jan 2025
Company: DWR Cymru Cyfyngedig Welsh Water Plc
City: Cardiff
Address:
Cardiff, Wales, GB, CF3 0LT
Cardiff, Wales, GB, CF3 0LT
Job Requisition Number
7264
Work Type
Temporary
Job Function
Scientist
Salary Range
£26,173.00 -£29,738.00
Base
South East Hub
Closing Date
23:59 on 05/02/2025
What you’ll be responsible for
We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Environmental Sampling Technician to join our team as part of the Chemical Investigation Programme (CIP). This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in this nationally recognized programme aimed at monitoring and analysing the presence of priority chemicals in the environment. The role will involve sampling influent and effluent at Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTWs) as well as network and river sampling for a variety of research projects. The work will contribute the collaborative research programme between UK water companies and regulators, Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales.
As a credible member of the Wastewater Assets Team, you will:
- Show knowledge and confidence in taking non-regulatory samples.
- Deliver the necessary sampling programmes and associated tasks.
- Work well with other team members, highlighting issues and constraints quickly, including short notice sampling changes.
- Have knowledge and experience of, or be willing to accept training for, river sampling and water safety.
- Have knowledge and experience of following procedures, safe systems of work and risk assessments controls.
This will include:
- Being responsible for taking non-regulatory samples, including wastewater final effluent, river samples (water quality and macroinvertebrate) as well as other samples deemed necessary for programme delivery, over a wide geographical area
- Undertaking onsite field testing including pH, conductivity, and temperature
- Logging samples using Click Mobile and associated tasks
- Completing onsite aesthetic visual surveys in line with sampling protocols
- Undertaking pre-sampling site condition checks (hazards, river level etc)
- Being open to scrutiny and audit, both internally (IMS, H&S) and externally (NRW/EA)
- Identifying and escalating issues found at DCWW assets (i.e. visually poor samples, security)
- Working closely with the Project Scientist to ensure that all samples are taken within appropriate timescales and delivered to depot ready for courier collection within required timescale.
- Being responsible for maintaining any equipment used in sampling and monitoring in accordance with EA guidance & regulation requirements
- Occasionally assisting the wider science team where workload allows and there is a business need identified by the Project Scientist
- Being responsible for the stock control, preparation and co-ordination of sampling bottles and daily resource pack, including requesting consumable orders with the Project Scientist
- Actively participating in reactive rescheduling as and when required
- Providing appropriate updates for onsite changes to maintain current site instructions
- Liaising with external couriers for sample collections
- Willing of the possibility of very occasional overnight stays for training and H&S purposes
Who you’ll work with
Internal
- Wastewater Services
- Operations
- H&S
- HR
External
- Regulators
- Landowners
- Contractors, suppliers and external commercial partners
About you
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Full driving license/Ability to travel as job requires
- Understand the importance of being a member of a high performing team
- Be highly organised and have strong communication skills
- Able to follow procedures and guidelines, taking responsibility for own actions
- Able to work to deadlines without compromising safety or quality
- Knowledge of IT systems such as Word, Excel and Outlook, GIS, PowerBi
- Enthusiastic about putting our customers first every day
- Attention to detail
- Adaptable to changing priorities
- Ability to travel and work flexibly as job requires
Good to know
- Normal working hours, with the occasional late/early/weekend for sampling programme requirements.
- This role includes no shift work, stand by or call out rota.
- Full driving license is required.
- This is a 2 year contract.
For more information on the role please contact julia.kennedy@dwrcymru.com
Benefits
As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:
- Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
- Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
- Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
- Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free on-site parking at all our sites
- Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
- Car-leasing scheme
- Health CashBack scheme
- An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.
Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.
Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business.
For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject to all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.
Who we are
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.
To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.
We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work.
To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.
In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.