Process Controller Colne, East of England, England
Job description
You will be part of a team of Process Controllers and Field Service Engineers who are responsible for the safe effective operation, maintenance and optimisation of Wastewater (Water) production assets. Working in a dynamic modern operational environment, undertaking proactive, planned and reactive activities you will contribute to the achievement of regulatory, financial, customer and key business performance targets.
Job Accountabilities
Working within a clear framework of Quality Assurance and Standard Operating procedures you will be expected to develop close working relationships, to proactively identify operational problems likely to result in compliance and customer service issues and investigate and deliver actions to improve performance and efficiency of production assets. You will be responsible for:
- Operation and optimisation of Water treatment sites across a number of sites
- Maintaining the required skills, competence and recency in relation to the role.(LTO Scheme)
- Completing on time planned workload of cyclic tasks and the recording of reactive tasks.
- Completing weekly reviews and providing input and support where required
- Providing reliable, accurate and complete asset performance information.
- Analysing and recommending solutions to recurring process problems.
- You will be required to work towards an accredited qualification or standard that is relevant to your role in addition to a number of other health and safety, technical and behavioural training courses.
Knowledge and Skills
To be successful in this role, you will need to be have good numeracy skills, be computer literate and able to carry out reporting and other information recording activities across a variety of platforms.
- A minimum of 5 GCSE's grades A-C or equivalent (which must include Maths, English and a Science or Technology subject).
- A full driving licence
- The ability to work in a team but also alone, be resilient, self-motivated, with strong problem solving skills and possess the required technical competence.
- Strong, diagnostic, planning and organisational skills
- The ability to communicate information and data
Knowledge of safe systems of work, company policy, statutory regulations, operations procedures, maintenance procedures, administration procedures.
Although not essential, it may be advantageous if you were able to demonstrate:
- Good understanding of Water treatment processes and knowledge gained through job-related training and on-the-job experience
- Experience and training on purchase Card, SAP, breathing apparatus, confined spaces and lifting equipment.
Experience of PLC, HMI and SCADA systems
Additional Information
This role will be primarily based at Laneshaw WtW, but will cover 5 sites in the East Lancashire area for callout and alarm cover.
We need fantastic people to enable us to deliver a great service to the public. We are committed to reaching and recruiting from every community and then supporting employees to achieve their full potential ensuring they feel valued and included, regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, sexual orientation or social background.
If you are offered a job with us, a number of pre-employment checks need to be carried out before your appointment can be confirmed. Any offer of employment with United Utilities will be subject to a satisfactory checking report from the Disclosure Scotland / the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Closing Date: 20/04/23
