Catchment Environmental Scientist

About The Role Catchment Environmental Scientist Working hours Full time 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements will be considered where this can be managed) Up to 22 month fixed term contract or Secondment Salary Up To £47,480 Per Annum Depending On Experience Location Pity Me, Durham About The Role

Are you passionate about the environment and want to use your skills and experience to make a difference? We’re looking for a Catchment Environmental Scientist for our Environment & Sustainability team, to help us develop our data and evidence approach to inform integrated catchment planning and integrated catchment management, and plan actions and investments to meet our regulatory obligations under the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) and commitments in the NWG Environment Strategy.

In this role you will use your excellent understanding of water, land management and catchment challenges and opportunities to assess data and evidence, undertaking data analysis and interpreting simple models, drawing information together to understand our business impact on river water quality and the water environment, and identifying future schemes. You will also need to use spatial mapping and analysis using GIS and support the development and application of these tools across the Environment & Sustainability catchment group.

Although the role is office based in the North East, it will support our companywide activities for both Northumbrian Water and Essex & Suffolk Water. We anticipate cross company working will be via online meetings. You will be directed in your role by our Strategic and Integrated Catchment Managers, and supported by a number of wider environmental experts in Environment & Sustainability.

About You

If you have a strong technical background in environmental science and delivery of catchment improvement schemes, and skills and experience in managing catchment data and evidence and working with GIS, then we want to hear from you.

We need you to be self-driven and proactive in managing your own workload. The role will be principally office based, and you’ll need to be happy to work alone but as part of a wider team, and you’ll need to be able to communicate your work and ideas effectively to engage with others.

You should be very IT literate and familiar with Microsoft Office, statistical packages, and GIS software such as ESRI, as data analysis, reporting and written communication are key to this role.

About Us Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work. Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.

At NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply

NWG At a Glance: Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come. We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers. We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business. Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services.

To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

Our Benefits

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

- Generous holiday entitlement, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.

- Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.

- Free access to local attractions.

- A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.

- Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.

- Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.

- Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.

- Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.

This role has been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test. Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked About Us

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.