Agricultural Technician

What you’ll be responsible for

• Build good working relationships with farmers and growers, providing excellent customer service and promoting the benefits of biosolids as a soil enhancing product
• Inform farmers and growers on the biosolids products available to them
• Build relationships with NRW / Environment Agency and Environmental Health Officers to keep them fully informed of biosolids recycling activities
• 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
• Undertake field soil sampling and stockpile inspections ensuring all data is accurately collected and recoded in accordance with IMS procedures
• Fully comply with IMS procedures to ensure compliance with the industry Biosolids Assurance Scheme
• Undertaking administrative tasks necessary for demonstrating compliant delivery and recycling of biosolids
• Guide on specialist subject areas relevant to your expertise or development goals on behalf of the team.

About you

• Agricultural, water industry or environmental experience
• 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

• Hybrid working (atleast 1 office day a week)

• Interview dates likely week commencing 24th August 2026
• We may need to close this job advert earlier so we encourage you to apply promptly 

• If you would like any further information on this role, please contact Rhodri.Jones@dwrcymru.com

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 34 days  annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

• Variable pay schemes (your salary will always stay the same, but depending on the performance of the company you could receive a yearly bonus)
• 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
• 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.
 

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.