Sampler United Kingdom
Job description
As a Water Sampler, you'll be on the front line of water safety, quality and delivery, ensuring that customers receive the very best when they turn on their tap.
What you'll be doing
You’ll spend most of your time out and about visiting water treatment works, reservoirs, and other Affinity Water sites collecting water samples across our operational area between Guildford and North London and delivering to the laboratory in Staines.
You’ll perform routine, non-routine and random sampling across our supply area, working independently to complete your daily schedule. There will be some cold-calling to take sample readings in residential areas, and so you'll be comfortable with entering customer properties.
There’s plenty of driving involved and so you’ll be a confident driver who’s prepared to travel long distances. You must have a full/clean UK/Manual driving licence. Travelling between sites couldn’t be easier as you’ll be given a company van to get yourself around.
What you'll need
There’s lots of autonomy in this role as you’ll plan your sampling schedule each day. You’ll be excellent at managing your time, meeting deadlines and be comfortable working alone.
Whilst experience in water or the broader utilities industry is beneficial, this isn’t essential as we'll invest the time to ensure you're up to speed with industry knowledge and best practise.
When you’re not outdoors collecting samples, you’ll be based at the Labs in Staines completing key administration tasks such as data input and recording samples into our internal systems. You’ll be comfortable using core IT programs such as MS Excel.
As the service you’ll provide is essential to the customer, you’ll be comfortable participating in a weekend and out-of-hours standby rota to ensure someone is always on hand when there's an operational issue. It’s all part of your outstanding service. (This will be a seperate payment on top of your base salary.)
What's in it for you
The work you'll do is also essential for Affinity Water to deliver safe, clean drinking water to our local communities every day. In return, you'll be entitled to a host of benefits including a competitive salary, double-matching SMART pension scheme, and a holiday allowance that increases with length of service. So the longer you stay, the more you gain.
Ready to dive in?
Apply now and follow the quick and easy application questions to submit your interest. Everyone will get a response.
Benefits includes:
- Salary £24,080 - £27,305 (based on competency)
- Company annual bonus
- SMART Pension Scheme - we double match your contribution to 12%
- Discounts for Medical and Dental Insurance, Retail Outlets
- Volunteer days
- Life Assurance
- Further training costs covered
- Above all, our company culture is unique, personable, friendly and diverse and we welcome applications from all! You will have the opportunity to create, shape and drive something new for Affinity water with a great deal of responsibility with endless opportunity for impact and freedom for initiatives.
