Compliance Sampler - Weekend

Summary:

Are you ready to play a vital role in ensuring our communities have access to safe, clean water? We are looking for a dependable, detail-oriented individual to join our team as a Compliance Sampler in Water Quality. This is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to make a tangible impact by ensuring our water supply meets the highest regulatory and quality standards.

We are building the water company that everyone wants to be supplied by and work for, and you can be a key part of that mission. As a Compliance Sampler, you will take the lead in collecting water samples from a diverse range of environments, including reservoirs, treatment plants, and customer properties. While previous experience is not required, we are looking for someone who is well-organized, takes initiative, and approaches every task with determination.

This field-based role offers the freedom to work outdoors and the responsibility of managing your own performance. You will be comfortable driving long distances, interacting with customers to explain your work, and maintaining meticulous records. Precision is crucial here, as you’ll ensure that every sample, test, and piece of paperwork is handled exactly to standard.

We provide a company vehicle to support you in your work. This position is a part-time role, working an average of 22.5 hours per week. Your schedule will include shifts every other weekend—specifically Saturday and Sunday—plus two additional days per week (ideally Tuesday and Thursday, though this is flexible). On your weekend shifts, you will work 7.5 hours per day, typically starting between 6:30 and 7:00 am and finishing by 3:00 pm, including delivering samples to our lab in Farnborough. If you are looking for an engaging, field-based career where you can work independently while making a real difference, we want to hear from you.

Main responsibilities:

• The collection of samples from a variety of locations and undertake water quality investigations.
• Performing on-site tests and quality control checks in accordance with South East Water and the Water Quality regulatory standards.
• Planning your routes and self-managing your time to ensure deadlines are met.
• Ensuring all paperwork and electronic records are maintained to the required standard.
• Organising sampling in conjunction with water production staff to ensure the plant is running at time of sampling.
• Taking part in a weekend rota, where you will deliver samples to our laboratory in Farnborough

Skills / Qualifications / Experience (Essential)

• A valid driving licence is essential
• Good level of numeracy and literacy skills
• Good customer service being comfortable speak with customers and explaining why and how you’re there to help them
• Confident with IT / Computers

Skills / Qualifications / Experience (Desirable)

• Understanding of water sampling process

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Grow a career with a meaningful purpose.

We know the communities we serve are diverse. We recognise creativity comes from diversity not similarity. That’s why we are enthusiastic about creating inclusion across age, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and identity. You will experience our dedication to equal opportunities and fair treatment for all: through your recruitment, employment and career progression with South East Water.

Benefits package:

• Excellent Stakeholder pension scheme, up to 10% employer contribution.
• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays per annum, 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.

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What can you expect from your recruitment?

• To apply for this position, please submit your CV on our career’s website.
• 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.

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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.

Compensation package:

£17,077.01 (pro rata of 22.5 hours average equivalent £28,082.20)