Trade Effluent Specialist
Apply locations: Huntingdon
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted Yesterday
Time left to apply: End Date: December 3, 2024 (12 days left to apply)
Job requisition id: R28961
Salary: Circa £50,000 per annum
Type: Full time/37 hrs a week/permanent
Location: Lancaster House & Hybrid working
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you with the opportunity to combine working from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be Lancaster House in Huntingdon.
Role Overview:
As part of our Quality Regulation and Enforcement Team, the Trade Effluent Specialist will play a pivotal role in regulating trade effluent (TE) across our service area. You’ll be responsible for driving TE initiatives, supporting our Alliances, Wholesale Service Centre, and Water & Water Recycling Teams, and offering expert regulatory guidance and technical support.
In this leadership role, you’ll help shape and implement policies and standards in line with UK law, working closely with regulatory bodies such as Ofwat and the Environment Agency. You’ll collaborate with the wider Anglian Water environmental team to ensure compliance with the Water Industry Act, Urban Wastewater Treatment Regulations, and Environmental Permitting Regulation.
By supporting the Head of Quality Regulation and Enforcement, you’ll also contribute to the ongoing improvement of trade effluent regulation, build trusted relationships with regulators, and lead on setting Anglian Water’s strategy for non-household customers.
Employee Benefits:
* Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
* Personal private health care
* Annual bonus scheme
* Opportunity to volunteer for unpaid work in the community
* 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
* Life Cover at 8x your salary
* Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
* Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
* Discounts on new EE mobile contracts, cinema tickets, and a Cycle2Work scheme
* Free parking at all offices, sites, and leisure parks
* Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave, and 4 weeks paternity/partner pay.
Responsibilities:
* Represent the business in external stakeholder meetings, driving future plans and discussing technical matters regarding TE.
* Support and collaborate with Alliances, Laboratory, Wholesale Service Centre, Water, and Water Recycling Services by ensuring fair and consistent consenting of TE discharges.
* Maintain and improve the Quality Management System for TE.
* Communicate and reward the successes of the TE Regulatory Scientists and TE Samplers.
* Offer strategic guidance regarding the environmental regulatory landscape.
* Lead environmental TE projects, overseeing timelines and deliverables.
* Accountable for regulatory data management, assurance, and reporting logic.
* Ensure the implications of legislative or regulatory policy changes are communicated and implemented throughout TE function.
* Support training and technical expertise for TE Scientists and TE Samplers.
* Advocate for and implement best environmental practices.
Qualifications:
* Education to degree level or equivalent.
* Member of Professional Body is desirable and funded by Anglian Water.
* Demonstrable understanding of the regulatory environment, sewerage systems, trade effluent.
* Strong negotiating skills.
* Basic understanding of EPR Regulations, WIA, UWWTR.
* Excellent communication skills.
* Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage workloads.
* Excellent customer service.
Inclusion at Anglian Water:
Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer. We’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other protected characteristic.
Closing date: 2nd December 2024
About Us
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To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV, and we recommend uploading a cover letter. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed.
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