Sampling Scheduler
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Sampling Scheduler
Starting salary £23,195
Based in the Central Laboratory in Huntingdon
Permanent
Full time, 37 Hours a week
Join our sampling team!
Before it reaches our customer’s tap, drinking water is cleaned, disinfected and tested to ensure it’s safe to be consumed; after the water has been flushed and poured into our sewers, it’s delivered to our water recycling works, where it’s cleaned before it gets passed back to nature, where it’s also tested to ensure it’s not going to damage the environment.
We analyse and test hundreds of clean water and final effluent samples everyday .
Our samplers travel around the Anglian Water region visiting Anglian Water’s water treatment works and recycling centres, boreholes, reservoirs, rivers and customer properties collecting water samples and carrying out on-site chlorine tests.
We are looking for Sampling Schedulers to assist in planning and co-ordinating the sampling programme to meet the regulatory and business need. You will o perate our scheduling systems to ensure sampling events (planned and ad-hoc) are scheduled to ensure 100% compliance with regulatory and business requirements.
The role will liaise with the Sampling Managers to schedule workflow and resources proactively and dynamically.
What will you be doing?
Participate in sample scheduling as and maintain a broad technical understanding of methods in your area of responsibility
Demonstrate flexible working to ensure that all samples are scheduled as planned providing team cover as
Demonstrate delivery an effective and efficient service whilst maximising team flexibility.
Participate in operational rotas and work schedules in line with the business needs
Demonstrate excellent communication with Sampling Managers and samplers to ensure all unplanned absence is captured and the sampling schedule is updated to ensure all samples are accounted for eg , Sickness cover and vehicle breakdowns
Support the Sampling Managers to ensure all Planned absence is captured by the scheduling team and agreed weekly prior to approval eg , Annual leave
What do you need?
High standard of IT skills or equivalent demonstrable experience in scheduling systems
Knowledge and experience sufficient to resolve complex technical problems
Ability to troubleshoot, resolve and minimise issues
Analyse, compare, interpret and make judgements
Work to deadlines and prioritise workload appropriately
Ability to troubleshoot, resolve and minimise issues
Identifying and development own specialist technical skills and knowledge
Understanding our customer requirements and how customers use our analytical data
Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:
Personal private health care
23 days annual leave – rising with length of service
Flexible working
Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
Bonus scheme
Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.
Why Anglian Water?
Anglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world and we’re proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do!
This is a fantastic opportunity to work at our Central Laboratory, you’ll be able to make a difference, be part of a great team and develop a long term rewarding career with us.
Closing Date: 3rd April 2023
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