Agricultural Scientist

What you’ll be responsible for

As a credible member of the Bio-solids Services Team you will:

1        Manage the recycling of biosolids ensuring compliance with all regulatory and Health and Safety standards

2        Ensure compliance with the industry Biosolids Assurance Scheme and lead audits of our recycling activities

3        Develop customer relationships with farmers, growers and landowners regarding biosolids recycling. Build relationships with NRW / Environment Agency and Environmental Health Officers to keep them fully informed of biosolids recycling activities

4        Inform farmers and growers on the benefits of biosolids and the products available to them, becoming an adviser that they can trust

5        Identify and deliver efficiencies and ensure that cost considerations are taken into account during recycling activities

6        Review viable new business opportunities for the biosolids business within the industrial and commercial markets

7        Enhance the company’s presence in the agricultural market, through knowledge of the sector

8        Maintain a resilient and sustainable landbank to ensure continuation of biosolids recycling into the future

9        Work with operational colleagues to drive improvements in biosolids quality and maintain standards.

As an Agricultural Scientist your main requirements will be to:

•    Manage the recycling of bio-solids ensuring compliance with all regulatory and H&S standards.

•    Ensure compliance with the industry Bio-solids Assurance Scheme.

•    Develop customer relationships with farmers, growers and landowners regarding biosolids recycling. 

•    Advise farmers and growers on their crop requirements and become an adviser that they can trust.

•    Identify and deliver efficiencies.

•    Pro-actively identify viable new business opportunities for the bio-solids business within the industrial and commercial markets.

•    Enhance the company’s presence in the agricultural market, preferably through existing contacts and knowledge of the sector.

Who you’ll work with

Internal

• Company operations, H&S, finance 
• Company Biosolids Service team colleagues

External

• Farmers and growers
• Agricultural societies
• BAS practitioners
• NRW
• Environment Agency 
• Local Authorities
• Contractors

About you

Desirable Qualification

• FACTS qualified agricultural scientist (training can be provided for a suitably-skilled candidate)
   

Essential Experience

• Experience gained through the farming industry (or similar environmental experience) and ability to communicate effectively with farmers and growers
• A proven track record of managing  health and safety compliance

Essential Knowledge & Skills

• Able to demonstrate a commercial approach to cost efficiency and deliver efficiencies into the business
• An ability to think strategically but also able to ensure effective day to day delivery of services
• Ability to travel as job requires
• The ability to develop positive working relationships and to be seen as a highly credible senior representative of the business is required for this role

Good to know

• Hybrid working – a mix of office, remote and field working.
• No shift patterns, Mon-Fri 08:00-16:00.
• No standby.
• Either car allowance or company vehicle provided.

For any further information regarding this role please contact Shaun Thomas - shaun.thomas@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:

•             Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
•             Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
•             Free Mortgage Brokering Services 
•             Enhanced family friendly policies
•             Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
•             Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
•             Cycle to work scheme
•             Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
•             Car-leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all sites
•             Health CashBack scheme and access to an online GP service
•             An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
•             Many more can be found here!  

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.

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.