Closing Date
2025-03-03
Job Title: Spills MI Data Scientist
Location: Falmer, Sussex
Permanent
Hours: 37
Salary: Up to £45k
There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!
We are offering a salary of up to £45,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:
• Company and performance-related bonus
• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
• 25 days annual leave
• Life assurance equal to 4x salary
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
• Health Cash Plan
• Full funded eye tests
• Two paid volunteering days a year
• Occupational health service
• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
• Digital GP service
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
• Cycle to work scheme
Known internally as our 'Spills Lead'; this is an exciting role to work with data relating to water spills across our region, working with data reported in from ASPIRE and “Rivers and Seas Watch” when there have been overspills from rainwater.
This will be both a reactive and pro-active role; reacting to when there is heavy rain fall and large quantities of data to analyse as well as being proactive taking a wider view of what this data means, analysing trends in the data and working on continuous improvement efforts.
These activities will drive the step change required to enable the near time notification to the public facing “Rivers and Seas Watch” app to verify the genuinely of spills, will provide operational MI to enable SWs zero non-compliant spills strategy to be realised and align with longer term strategic goals of spill forecasting.
This role will also require undertaking root cause analysis of spills and interact with wider industry and peers to understand best practice and innovation.
You will be liaising with 3rd parties regarding spills, providing requested data and offering advice based on findings.
Spill rota membership staffed by trained members of OP&I to validate out of hours spills on a dry day as well as weekend working for incident support 1 in 8 weeks minimum
To be suitable for this role you will be/ have:
1. Strong Excel skills
2. Keen interest in programming and learning how to do SQL Queries, or the ability to do these already
3. Proactive thinker
4. Critical thinker
5. Happy to undergo on-the-job training
6. Very confident learning and using a variety of IT systems
7. Have a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for ad-hoc site visits
8. An interest in the environment would be an advantage
9. Computer related graduates are welcome to apply
Join our Wastewater Team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers, and the environment.
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority.
That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
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All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g., a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.