About this role
Closing Date
2026-01-23Wastewater Process Operator
Location: East Kent, Canterbury you will also need to be willing to travel across multiple sites and have a current full driving licence.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 38 hours, Monday to Friday
Salary: £27,496 per annum plus standby and overtime opportunities.
Benefits:
Health Care cash plan cover (with options to upgrade for family coverage)
Pension contributions up to 11% (depending on your contribution)
For a full list of benefits, please visit our careers page or see below.
About the role
Join our frontline operations team in Kent to ensure wastewater treatment works and pumping stations run smoothly. This role is critical to maintaining compliance, protecting the environment, and delivering excellent service to our customers.
What you will be responsible for:
Compliance testing and monitoring.
Maintenance tasks including unblocking pumps, screens, and valves.
Repair of alarm systems and fault resolution.
Monitoring, collating, and reporting data for regulatory compliance.
Carrying out regular sampling and maintaining sampling equipment.
Receiving and handling chemical deliveries safely.
Using IT systems to log maintenance tasks and ensure safety compliance.
What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential
Valid UK manual driving licence.
Comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions.
Adaptable, reliable, and self-motivated.
Good time management and ability to work independently.
Keen to learn and operate complex processes.
Desirable
Experience in wastewater operations or similar process industries.
Basic mechanical or electrical maintenance skills.
Progression opportunities
Southern Water offers career progression, training, and development opportunities.
About Southern Water
Southern Water is at the forefront of transforming Britain’s water industry, investing significantly to enhance resilience, sustainability, and service excellence. With £7.8bn planned investment for 2025-30, this is an unparalleled opportunity to join a business committed to delivering a generational shift in the way water services are managed.
At Southern Water, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t tick every box.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or any other protected characteristic. If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
"At Southern Water, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need."
If this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com- Introduce Yourself)
Our Commitment to Diversity
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or any other protected characteristic. If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
Other facts
About Southern Water
We are one of the largest water and wastewater companies in the South East of England and thrive on the passion and hard work of more than 2,000 employees.
Together we supply 532 million litres of drinking water every day to more than two million customers and treat and recycle 717 million litres of wastewater for more than four million customers in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Water is essential to every aspect of our lives and we're proud to be at the heart of managing water and wastewater services. We drink it, cook with it and use it to clean. Our water supply faces big challenges - the population of the South East is growing fast, and climate change is bringing greater risk of droughts and more extreme weather. It’s a future of more people needing water and wastewater services, with less water to go around.
So, together with our customers and communities, we aim to provide a sustainable, high-quality water and wastewater service that helps us create a resilient future for water in the South East.
Find out more about us:
Website: www.southernwater.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SouthernWater
Twitter: @SouthernWater
Instagram: @southernwatermedia
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What you'll do
- The role involves ensuring wastewater treatment works and pumping stations run smoothly through compliance testing, maintenance tasks, and data monitoring. It is critical for maintaining regulatory compliance and delivering excellent service to customers.
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