Product & Process Optimiser 24/7

What we do:

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does.

Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away.

But for us, it’s so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year.

We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry.

Bioresources are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

No two days are the same in a life of a Product & Process Optimiser.

You will be responsible for conducting routine manual and technical work on sites, including routine operations, instrument calibration, sampling, reporting, data analysis and basic maintenance checks to prevent failure and to manage and prioritise workload according to available resource and risk.

The Product & Process Optimiser will take ownership of the site and maintain a safe working environment by always implementing and adhering to Health and Safety procedures.

This will include the management of contractors via Control of Work, inducting visitors onto sites and mitigating and resolving hazards as they arise.

You will work closely with the Product and Process Engineers to maintain site compliance in and out of hours.

Where you fit in:

As our Product & Process Optimiser you will:

• You will use process information, both manual and IT based, to proactively optimise the processes on site to improve process efficiency in terms of cost of treatment and energy generation.
• Our Thermal Hydrolysis Plant and Bio- Energy Centre contains a range of complex processes and control systems, so you will need to be able to demonstrate that you can learn technical processes and be able to problem solve and drive process improvements.
• The role is a mixture of technical, analytical, and manual duties, and each part should be met with equal enthusiasm.

What skills, experience and qualifications you will need:

• Experience of Health and Safety management processes and systems
• Technical understanding of production processes and be able to self-manage and prioritise technical and manual workloads ensuring ‘right first time’ when completing tasks.
• Analytical and fault diagnosis of production processes.
• Experience of delivering continual improvement in a process / production environment.
• Experience in incident management and asset failure recovery.
• Be able to work on own and as part of team and be proactive and take ownership of site issues, working with others to resolve.
• Be able to influence and challenge in the right way.
• To use creativity and innovation endeavouring to find new ways of achieving site targets and to seek improvements to the way that tasks are successfully completed.
• To use initiative to resolve problems or issues and meticulous attention to detail to ensure ‘right first time’ performance.
• Proficient user of MS Office Applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Teams
• Financial awareness
• Good interpersonal skills and be able to communicate effectively and be able to develop and maintain valuable internal and external relationships.
• Holds a full, valid driving licence (with no more than 6 points)

You will also benefit from having:

• Previous experience gained within the water or wastewater sectors or within the broader utilities, regulated environment, process or manufacturing industry sectors.
• Experience of working on a Thermal Hydrolysis Plant
• Previous experience gained working on boilers or BOAS accreditation.
• Knowledge and understanding of asset management and capital principles.
• Knowledge of YW risk policy and process.
• Regulatory Awareness

If you’re a technical understanding of production processes and want to help us deliver exceptional service for our customers whilst protecting the environment, then apply today to find out what a career with Yorkshire Water can offer for you.

Please apply online and complete the application process.

If you could also, please upload an up-to-date copy of your CV outlining your relevant experience for the role.