Control Room Trainee - South East Water - Kent

Job Description

Do you want to kickstart your career as a Control Room Trainee – learn to monitor, manage, and optimize water distribution and production, ensuring reliable, high-quality supply to meet customer demand and safeguard reserve storage?

If this sounds like you, then you’ll want to learn more about this opportunity…

We want to be the water company people want to be supplied by and want to work for.

As a Control Room Trainee, you will learn & develop, monitoring / managing skills, controlling both distribution and production operating networks, to ensure reliable, sufficient, secure availability of water supplies, meeting the required quality standards needed, for us to meet customer demand and preserve our storage levels, 24/7 365 days a year.

We believe in rewarding our employees as they grow and take on greater responsibilities. This role comes with a clear career progression path, ensuring fair compensation as you develop your skills and expertise

You’ll grow a career with a meaningful purpose. Be you, belong and be valued.

• Come to work to be safe, valued, and trusted.
• We’ll encourage you to create and pursue new opportunities for personal growth.
• A place to be the real you, build deeper connections and enjoy a sense of belonging.
• Be invested in helping us to create a sustainable water supply for now, and in the future.

What will you be accountable for?

• Learn and develop skills required to carry out the following responsibilities:
• Effective management of the daily supply/demand balance.
• Day to day communication with operational personnel regard site and system performance.
• Deployment of operational personnel in response to unplanned operational events and customer impact.
• Maintain an ‘electronic log’ of operational incidents and events for future reference and reporting.
• Provide cover and support for peer group during periods of absence and/or vacancies (once competent).

What do you bring to the role?

• Minimum of Maths and English GCSE’s at C/4 or higher. Further education in a science related field will be advantageous.
• Good understanding of MS Office suite
• Understanding of telemetry systems would be advantageous
• Enthusiastic team player demonstrating appositive approach to duties.
• Introduction to water treatment processes will be provided.
• Able to demonstrate analytical approach to problem solving.
• Good communication skills with external customers & internal colleagues within the business at all levels.
• Experience within a process plant operation would be advantageous.
• The ability to work day/night shifts

  What can you expect from us?

• Excellent Stakeholder pension scheme, up to 10% employer contribution.
• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays, increasing to 6 weeks with length of service.
• Flexible annual leave policy to buy or sell holiday leave.
• Paid volunteering days.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Health cash plan.
• Life assurance.
• Wellbeing related benefits.
• Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.

Everyone needs water, South East Water welcomes everyone

We understand that the communities we serve are made up of different types of people. We believe that creativity comes from having diverse perspectives, rather than everyone being the same. That's why we are excited about promoting inclusivity in terms of age, race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and identity. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and fair treatment to everyone throughout the recruitment process, employment, and advancement at South East Water.

What can you expect from your recruitment?

• To apply for this position, please submit your CV on our careers website.
• Unfortunately, we are not able to offer sponsorship for this role.
• It is necessary for you to have the legal right to work in the UK when you begin employment with South East Water.
• Additionally, as part of the employment offer, you will need to pass background, identity, and employment referencing checks.
• If you require assistance / adjustments to engage with our recruitment process and to ensure you're able to compete on equal terms, please contact the recruitment team via recruitment.jobs@southeastwater.co.uk

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for, apply now!

South East Water kindly asks that recruitment agencies refrain from submitting CVs to our employees or associates without explicit invitation from our HR Resourcing team. CVs sent on a speculative basis will not be acknowledged and will not assume any responsibility for fees or commissions in the event that we hire a candidate who applied directly or subsequently introduced by an instructed agency.