Technical Advisor 2 (Wastewater Quality and Compliance)
Washington, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 11 hours ago
About The Role
Technical Advisor 2 (Wastewater Quality and Compliance)
Permanent
Salary From £45,475 - £53,500 (depending On Experience)
Location: Washington/Hybrid
About The Role
We’re excited to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our Wastewater, Quality and Compliance team as a Technical Advisor, where you’ll play an important role in supporting the essential compliance work delivered across the business.
In this role, you’ll help ensure we meet increasing regulatory requirements by supporting compliance monitoring, environmental reporting, and permitting activities across our sewage treatment works, storm overflows, and pumping stations. You’ll also contribute to the delivery of technical projects focused on improving asset performance and strengthening our monitoring capabilities.
As a Technical Advisor, you’ll act as a key source of expertise, providing guidance and insight on wastewater compliance to colleagues across the organisation. Working closely with operational teams and other departments, you’ll help manage and deliver technical initiatives while supporting informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to make a real impact, helping to protect the environment, enhance operational performance, and ensure we continue to meet our regulatory responsibilities.
About You
We’re looking for individuals who are confident communicators, able to build strong relationships and positively influence a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. You will bring strong analytical capability, with the ability to handle and interpret data effectively, supported by a sound understanding of scientific principles, particularly in areas such as wastewater treatment or environmental permitting.
You’ll enjoy problem solving and take a curious, investigative approach to your work, enabling you to assess technical information, interpret complex datasets and draw clear, meaningful conclusions. An understanding of the regulatory landscape within the water industry is important, along with an appreciation of how these requirements influence the operation and management of assets.
You will be educated to degree level, or hold equivalent experience in a scientific discipline, and be confident in managing, analysing and presenting data. Good Excel skills are essential, along with the ability to travel between sites, so a full UK driving licence is required.
Overall, we’re looking for someone who is inquisitive, collaborative and driven, with a passion for using data and insight to support environmental performance and operational excellence.
About Us
Here at Northumbrian 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.
NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.
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:
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.
Technical Advisor 2 (Wastewater Quality and Compliance)
Permanent
Salary From £45,475 - £53,500 (depending On Experience)
Location: Washington/Hybrid
About The Role
We’re excited to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our Wastewater, Quality and Compliance team as a Technical Advisor, where you’ll play an important role in supporting the essential compliance work delivered across the business.
In this role, you’ll help ensure we meet increasing regulatory requirements by supporting compliance monitoring, environmental reporting, and permitting activities across our sewage treatment works, storm overflows, and pumping stations. You’ll also contribute to the delivery of technical projects focused on improving asset performance and strengthening our monitoring capabilities.
As a Technical Advisor, you’ll act as a key source of expertise, providing guidance and insight on wastewater compliance to colleagues across the organisation. Working closely with operational teams and other departments, you’ll help manage and deliver technical initiatives while supporting informed decision-making and continuous improvement.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to make a real impact, helping to protect the environment, enhance operational performance, and ensure we continue to meet our regulatory responsibilities.
About You
We’re looking for individuals who are confident communicators, able to build strong relationships and positively influence a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. You will bring strong analytical capability, with the ability to handle and interpret data effectively, supported by a sound understanding of scientific principles, particularly in areas such as wastewater treatment or environmental permitting.
You’ll enjoy problem solving and take a curious, investigative approach to your work, enabling you to assess technical information, interpret complex datasets and draw clear, meaningful conclusions. An understanding of the regulatory landscape within the water industry is important, along with an appreciation of how these requirements influence the operation and management of assets.
You will be educated to degree level, or hold equivalent experience in a scientific discipline, and be confident in managing, analysing and presenting data. Good Excel skills are essential, along with the ability to travel between sites, so a full UK driving licence is required.
Overall, we’re looking for someone who is inquisitive, collaborative and driven, with a passion for using data and insight to support environmental performance and operational excellence.
About Us
Here at Northumbrian 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.
NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.
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 starting 26 days, 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.
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.
