Yorkshire Water
Technical Optimiser (Pumping)
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Technical Optimiser – Wastewater Pumping Works
Yorkshire Water
This is an exciting opportunity to join Yorkshire Water, a leader in water and wastewater services across the region, where your role will be integral to ensuring safe, efficient, and sustainable operations across key assets like pumping stations, treatment works, and overflow systems.
Why Join Yorkshire Water?
- Competitive salary: Salary band 4B – £42,881 to £50,710 (depending on experience)
- Permanent role: 37 hours per week (Mon–Fri)
- Inclusion in a standby rota post-training for on-call support
- Generous benefits package:
- Company car or £3,000 cash allowance (subject to company criteria)
- 100% performance-based bonus (maximum £1,000)
- Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% employer contribution)
- 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays + 2 extra wellness days
- Extra days in lieu for working bank holidays
- £4 times salary life assurance cover
- Extensive perks, including:
- Health cash plan, critical illness, dental and partner cover
- Online GP service
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Gym membership discounts
- Retail savings scheme
- Flexible working options: Support for job sharing (where feasible) and balancing work-life commitments
- Development opportunities: Technical Optimiser progression plan and continuous learning
About Our Business
Yorkshire Water serves 5.4 million people in the region, ensuring: ✔ Clean, safe drinking water (24/7) ✔ Efficient wastewater management ✔ Environmental protection ✔ Reliable services for communities and visitors
With rapid changes in regulation, customer expectations, and climate demands, the Process & Pumping sector is pivotal in driving operational excellence.
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The Role
Core Responsibilities
As a Technical Optimiser, you’ll play a strategic role in optimising wastewater assets—including treatment works, pumping stations, CSOs (Combined Sewer Overflows), and detention tanks—to deliver: 🔸 Performance excellence (pollution prevention, reliability, customer satisfaction) 🔸 Optimal energy use and sustainability 🔸 Regulatory compliance (TWC, bathing water quality, energy consumption) 🔸 Proactive risk mitigation and asset optimisation
Your duties include:
- Operational leadership: Plan, organise, and manage complex reactive and proactive workloads across sites in the North & East Yorkshire regions
- Technical support & coaching: Guide pumping operators and maintenance teams through analytics, training, and process optimisation
- Risk & performance management: Use RCA (Root Cause Analysis) to investigate asset failure, performance gaps, and mitigations
- Critical incident resolution: Escalate and resolve high-priority, complex, and emergency issues—leveraging external resources where needed
- Data-driven efficiency: Monitor SCADA/RTS systems to identify trends, adjust setpoints, and improve process performance
- Customer-first focus: Proactively manage customer complaints and ensure resolutions align with Yorkshire Water’s Customer Promise
- Capital project involvement: Support design, commissioning, and asset upgrades (both internally and externally)
- Behavioral culture: Foster a Health, Safety, and Wellbeing-first mindset, ensuring all activities comply with company policies
Skills & Qualifications
| Must-Have Experience | Preferred Skills |
|---|---|
| In-depth knowledge of wastewater assets (pumping works, treatment works, etc.) | Data interpretation (Excel, SCADA, RTS) |
| Expertise in process & operational optimisation | Change management in operational teams |
| Continuous improvement in production environments | Proactive problem-solving across functions |
| Strategy development & delivery in fast-paced settings | Project commissioning experience |
| Technical reporting aligned with corporate systems | Understanding of energy efficiency metrics |
| Full valid UK driving licence (≤6 penalty points) | Role in flexible working models |
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Why Apply?
This role offers impactful, hands-on engineering with real influence over Yorkshire’s most critical infrastructure. You’ll drive operational excellence, shape maintenance protocols, and collaborate with cross-functional teams (from E&MS to Asset Integrity).
Ideal for candidates with a technical mindset, passion for sustainability, and ability to turn challenges into solutions.
Joining Yorkshire Water
Location
- Yorkshire region (North & East) – ongoing travel across assigned sites.
Application Process
✅ Submission by 15th July ✅ Additional checks:
- Basic Disclosure Check (vetting process)
- Medical questionnaire (if required) ✅ Immediate action urged: Positions may close before the deadline.
Commitments
Yorkshire Water is dedicated to diversity, inclusion, and sustainability. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and strive to reflect the communities we serve.
*ready to be part of Yorkshire’s water future? Apply today.´```*´
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