Agricultural Officer

What you’ll be responsible for

1             Build good working relationships with farmers and growers, providing excellent customer service and promoting the benefits of biosolids as a soil enhancing product

2             Inform farmers and growers on the biosolids products available to them

3             Build relationships with NRW / Environment Agency and Environmental Health Officers to keep them fully informed of biosolids recycling activities

4             Ensure maintenance of 100% biosolids recycling compliance to prevent legal action against the company and to prevent financial penalties being incurred by Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water

5             Undertake field soil sampling and stockpile inspections ensuring all data is accurately collected and recoded in accordance with IMS procedures

6             Fully comply with IMS procedures to ensure compliance with the industry Biosolids Assurance Scheme

7             Undertaking administrative tasks necessary for demonstrating compliant delivery and recycling of biosolids

8             Lead on specialist subject areas relevant to your expertise or development goals on behalf of the team.

Who you’ll work with

Internal

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

External

• Farmers and growers
• NRW
• Environment Agency 
• Local Authorities
• Contractors

About you

Experience

• Agricultural, water industry or environmental experience

Knowledge & Skills

• IT literate and have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work to deadlines without compromising quality
• Adaptable to changing priorities
• Ability to travel as job requires 
• Ability to demonstrate a commercial approach to cost efficiency and understand the need for large scale change programmes to achieve a high-performance business culture
• Ensure effective day to day delivery of services
• Develop positive working relationships and to be seen as a highly credible representative of the business

Good to know

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact: Jason.Schadie@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
•             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
 
 
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 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.