Who are we?
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km’s of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
What you will be doing
By focusing on quality in everything Water Production does, we are committed to providing clean, safe and reliable drinking water, which complies with all the necessary regulatory standards and is available when our customers want it.
The Water Production Excellence team is a technical resource supporting front line operations, and we have an opportunity to join our specialist team. The team supports Water Production in achieving three key challenges 1. Maintain water quality compliance 2. Promote system resilience and 3. Drive cost efficiencies ensuring value-for-money for our customers.
The team has a mixture of skills and experience including; chemical, mechanical and power/energy and we are looking to fill an opening within the team. We are seeking technically skilled individuals that might have practitioner experience in one or more of the areas below:
- Optimising water treatment processes
- Knowledge/experience of energy management/optimisation
- Modelling/data analysis of production systems source to tap
We’re looking for you to:
- Likely have a Degree (or equivalent) in a Scientific, Engineering or Power discipline
- Have excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills as you will be working with colleagues and key stakeholders on a day to day basis
- Be results driven, continuously seeking new and improved ways of working, possibly experienced in Lean, Sigma and/or Kaizan methodologies
- Be comfortable in taking the lead, a self-starter not reliant upon close supervision and guidance
- Be a logical and analytical mind and able to maintain a positive and professional approach when dealing with internal customers of all levels
What’s in it for you?
This is a unique role where you will be tasked with driving operational and financial continuous improvement from source to tap. Due to the nature of the role, frequent travel across the Thames region will require you to have a full driving licence and a private car allowance will be available.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader and we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
You can find out more in our working for us section of our website.