Wastewater Science Manager

What you’ll be responsible for

As a Science Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of Process and Trade Effluent Scientists and prioritising workloads to enable timely solutions to Wastewater Process and Trade Effluent problems.

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Protecting Welsh Water’s wastewater network, treatment assets, processes and the receiving environment from the effects of WWTW’s effluent discharges and associated trade effluent discharges to public sewer
2. Working closely with the Welsh Water Operation Team to ensure the process quality at wastewater treatment works is maintained and that effluent is produced within Regulatory boundaries
3. Being an authority on all matters pertaining to wastewater treatment process and trade effluent
4. Facilitating a professional perception by internal and external stakeholders
5. Directing a local team of trade effluent officers to ensure that specialised technical enquires from customers are dealt with within the appropriate timescales and that appropriate levels of support, investigation & remediation are provided to maximise income whilst minimising business risk to compliance
6. Providing scientific expertise and direction necessary to ensure high quality cost effective process operation at all sites. Critically appraising wastewater treatment processes, to ensure that both cost and treatment are optimised
7. Providing expert support to Welsh Water colleagues on wastewater treatment processes and trade effluent
8. Ensuring procedures and activities comply with all H&S legislation and Welsh Water Health &Safety policy in maintaining a safe working environment
9. Ensuring that H&S requirements are met within the teams and that where necessary, risk assessments are carried out
10. Being the authority on all matters pertaining to wastewater treatment process and trade effluent matters in the Wastewater business area
11. Delivering Welsh Water Trade Effluent policy in protecting its assets, ensuring TE income is maximised with a balanced approach based on network and WWTW capacity implemented by the correct application and implementation of TE discharge consents
12. Approving proposed solutions to complex trade effluent complaints and queries, and ensuring that remedial plans are adequate
13. Taking a leading role in the handling of all Trade Effluent matters ensuring income is maximised whilst regulatory risk is minimised
14. Developing, owning and maintaining wastewater policies and strategies to ensure the implementation of current and future legislation relating to wastewater process and Trade Effluent control
15. Initiating, managing and reporting on improvement measures to reduce regulatory compliance risk at Wastewater Treatment Works
16. Ensuring that compliance sample failures are investigated to find the root cause of failures including lessons learnt and any actions required to prevent further occurrences

Who you’ll work with

Internal

•    Process Scientists
•    Process Operators
•    Operational managers including Operational Supervisors, Catchment Managers and Head of Wastewater Treatment
•    Asset Engineers
•    Scientific Team
•    Developer services

External

•    Business Trade effluent customer
•    NRW and Environment Agency
•    Chemical Suppliers
•    Capital partners

About you

Knowledge, Skills & Experience 

• Minimum qualification of a degree in a scientific discipline or equivalent    
• Must have a valid UK driving licence
• A comprehensive understanding of Environmental Legislation and Codes of Practice    
• Be considered an expert on all matters pertaining to waste water treatment and trade effluent    
• Must be able to understand fundamental control and instrumentation philosophies    
• Must have a knowledge and experience of wastewater science and treatment    
• Have a proven ability in process fault analysis    
• Must possess good interpersonal skills    
• Ability to multi task and prioritise workload    
• Must have a working knowledge of all regulations affecting water supply    

Good to know

• This role involves hybrid working 
• Car allowance is included 

For more information on the role please contact Joshua.Williams@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 on our website. 

 
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.

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.