Scheduler

Job Description

Starting salary £28,000 per annum

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 a Sampling Scheduler to assist in planning and co-ordinating the sampling programme to meet the regulatory and business need. You will operate 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.

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• ​​Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
• Personal private health care
• Annual bonus scheme
• Opportunity to volunteer do unpaid work in the community
• 25 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• Life Cover at 8x your salary
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
• Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
• Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
• Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.

What will you be doing?

• Participate in sample scheduling as required 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 required
• 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

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: 28th May 2025

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