Flow Compliance Specialist

Hello, we’re Severn Trent and we think water is wonderful. Oh, we’re pretty keen on people too.

24 hours a day, 365 days a year we serve 4.8 million households and business across the heart of the UK. Each cuppa drank and every toilet flushed is only possible because of the 6,500 brilliant team members working across our patch.

We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality. We know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our customers and the communities where they live.

If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you. There really is something for everyone here.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Our Water Quality & Environment Team have an opportunity for you to join as our new Flow Compliance Specialist.

In your new role, you’ll be expected to take responsibility for company level compliance to dynamic external reporting demands. The role holder will be required to analyse, understand and interpret complex regulatory frameworks, translating them into actionable guidelines ready for practical application by operational teams.

You will also be expected to continuously drive tangible improvement in our reporting and compliance standards. As well as being expected to manage multiple demanding priorities at any one time and be skilled at managing expectations outside the team.

Some of your other key accountabilities will include:

Responsible for driving gold standard company level compliance throughout the year in line with our dynamic external reporting commitments, adapting to both internal and external demands at pace
Responsible for ensuring we have effective processes and procedures in place to consistently deliver compliance and a strong audit trail for a high quality year end annual return
Accountable for understanding and manipulating large datasets from a variety of sources to identify trends, opportunities & risks to compliance and performance at pace.
Delivering an excellent level of insight into flow data, not just presenting this to the business but turning this into practical application and influencing the business to drive and deliver the opportunities.
Take ownership for potential improvement opportunities including understanding the size of that opportunity, liaising with key stakeholders, securing buy in and if relevant, implementing these improvements within the team and wider business
Analyse, understand and interpret complex regulatory frameworks, translating them into actionable guidelines for operational teams
Responsible for driving adherence to those operational processes and guidelines through exception reporting and influencing senior stakeholders and front line teams
Building and maintaining effective and successful relationships with regulatory bodies including the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and OFWAT
Work alongside wider business teams to develop, improve and adapt the relevant compliance dashboards to meet ever changing demands and needs
Benchmark with the wider water industry to identify and implement best practice and use experience and knowledge to influence future regulation
Act as the subject matter expert for all elements of MCERTS flow measurement and flow reporting, including compliance to permit conditions
Understand and drive opportunities for improvements in both our EPA measures and the Water Quality ODI

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE

To be successful in this role, it is expected that you’ll have knowledge of experience of flow monitoring, experience of external assurance and regulatory reporting under scrutiny including audit attendance and be proficient in using PowerBI and Microsoft Excel to analyse, manipulate and report on complex datasets to identify trends and insight

If you have a strong technical knowledge of waste processes (Networks and Recycling) and working in operational and regulatory environments or knowledge and understanding of the MCERTS Self Monitoring of Flow scheme and how to apply this this would be desirable.

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.

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?

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent, and 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:

28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
Annual bonus scheme (up to £2,250 based on company performance and subject to eligibility)
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
10% monthly discount with Busy Bees Nurseries and one-week free childcare
Dedicated training and development with our Academy
Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
Family friendly policies
Two paid volunteering days per year

WHATS NEXT?

We can’t wait to hear from you.

Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare.

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