Abstraction Compliance Specialist
LET’S CUT STRAIGHT TO IT
At Severn Trent, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re in the top 5% of utility companies worldwide when it comes to employee engagement and ranked as a Top 50 UK Employer on Glassdoor. Join us in making a positive impact on the environment and our communities, while being valued and supported in a truly inclusive workplace.
If you want to do more, because you care, we want you on our team.
LET’S TELL YOU MORE
Our Environmental Regulations & Permitting team have an opportunity for you to join as our new Abstraction Compliance Specialist.
You’ll be working with the team to ensure compliance with abstraction licences/permits and to drive continuous improvement across all aspects of abstraction.
Additionally, you will understand the detail within abstraction licences across the company and will use operational data to communicate with multiple teams and ensure that conditions and limits are adhered to.
Some of your other key accountabilities will include:
- Providing technical support on auditing/checking and reporting compliance with daily and annual limits in abstraction licences/permits. Collaborating with multiple teams to identify and deliver solutions to compliance issues
- Ensuring abstraction returns are submitted to regulatory timescales and investigating potential licence breaches to provide a report suitable for audit.
- Providing technical support on compensation flow management
- Ensuring effective relationships and built and maintained with Regulatory bodies including the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, OFWAT and Natural England
- Understanding and driving improvements in our EPA abstraction performance to ensure STW maintain our 4* rating.
- Taking ownership of workstreams for the company abstraction improvement programme to drive continuous improvement across the business
We’re seeking our new Abstraction Compliance Specialist to have experience of data analysis and working with large amounts of data as well as having knowledge of water treatment processes and familiarity with environmental licencing and permitting regimes.
To be successful, you will ideally have knowledge of flow monitoring and a working knowledge of corporate systems i.e. TeRI BI, SAP, eSCADA, SCADA, Netbase and Sharepoint.
You will also need to have excellent verbal and written communication, an excellent understanding of data and the ability to communicate information to a range of audiences, including Strategic Leads and external stakeholders and attention to detail, spotting patterns/themes/anomalies.
The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity, and a caring attitude we want to talk to you too.
A full UK driving licence is essential, being degree qualified or having relevant experience in a Geography/Environmental Science/Engineering discipline or other subject with some degree of analysis involved would be preferred but is not essential.
We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We want people who show up and get involved. Those who are ready to be part of something bigger and who want to make a difference because they care. Is that you?
HOW WE’LL REWARD AND CARE FOR YOU IN RETURN
Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent. We’ll reward you for it, too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.
With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Seven Trent family:
- Starting salary of £38,000.
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
- Annual bonus scheme (of up to £1,500 per annum based on company performance)
- Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
- Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
- Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’
- Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
- Family friendly policies
- Two volunteering days per year
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