Wastewater Technical Data Analyst
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Job Title: Wastewater Technical Data Analyst
Location: Falmer Brighton
Salary:Up to 40K depending on experience
Contract type: Permanent Full-time (37 hours per week)
Department: Operational Planning & Improvement
About the Role:
Were looking for a WastewaterTechnical Data Analyst to join Southern Water at a pivotal point in our Data Analytics and AI Transformation with a dedicated focus on wastewater environmental spills.
Southern Water is making a significant long term investment in data and digital capability to transform how we manage our assets protect the environment and meet future regulatory and operational challenges. At the heart of this transformation is our Data & Analytics Strategy which treats data as a strategic asset and enables the business to move from reactive reporting to proactive intelligence led decision making.
In this role you will directly contribute to that strategy by helping to design build and evolve spill focused analytical tools and insights. Your work will support the long term reduction of wastewater spills by improving how we identify risk understand root causes manage exceptions and intervene earlier across our wastewater network.
You will be part of the Operational Planning & Improvement function working closely with wastewater operations environmental compliance engineering and digital teams. Youll use modern cloudbased data platforms and analytics to transform complex operational telemetry and environmental data into actionable intelligence that informs spill prevention regulatory performance and investment decisions.
This role goes beyond producing dashboards. It is about building enduring analytical capability developing data products models and insight frameworks that will underpin Southern Waters spill reduction and environmental performance for years to come.
What Youll Do:
In this role you will:
Develop and evolve data products dashboards and analytical tools focused on wastewater environmental spills spill reduction and regulatory exceptions.
Analyse spill events and nearmisses to identify root causes systemic issues and emerging risks across networks and assets.
Build exceptionbased analytics to highlight abnormal performance highrisk sites and deteriorating trends before spills occur.
Apply predictive and exploratory analytics to understand drivers of spills including asset condition rainfall network behaviour and operational responses.
Support the longterm development of spill intelligence tools moving beyond reactive reporting to proactive and preventative insights.
Work closely with wastewater operations environmental compliance and engineering teams to ensure insights translate into practical interventions and measurable improvements.
Contribute to Southern Waters wider Digital & Analytics investment embedding automation modelling and advanced analytics into wastewater performance management.
Continuously improve data quality analytical methods and insight relevance to support regulatory performance and environmental outcomes.
About You:
Were looking for someone who combines strong analytical capability with a clear environmental purpose who is based in and around the Brighton East Sussex area.
Youll be motivated by tackling complex problems and delivering insights that lead to realworld spill reduction.
Essential skills and experience:
Strong experience in data analysis operational insight or business intelligence.
Proven ability to work with complex datasets and identify patterns exceptions and risks.
Proficiency in tools such as Python SQL Power BI and/or other analytics platforms (e.g. Alteryx Databricks).
Experience translating data into clear actionable insights for operational and environmental decisionmaking.
Excellent communication skills and the confidence to work with multidisciplinary teams.
Desirable experience:
Experience working with wastewater environmental or utility data.
Knowledge of SCADA telemetry or eventbased datasets.
Exposure to predictive analytics modelling or longterm performance frameworks.
A strong interest in environmental protection sustainability or regulatory compliance.
Why Join Southern Water:
At Southern Water data analytics and AI are central to how we are transforming the business and addressing some of the most complex challenges facing the water industry particularly wastewater environmental spills.
Through our Data Analytics and AI Transformation Programme we are investing in:
A modern secure cloudbased data platform that replaces fragmented legacy systems.
Strong data governance and ownership ensuring trusted highquality data.
A growing data literacy culture empowering teams to make smarter evidencebased decisions.
The rollout of foundational and advanced AI capabilities including predictive analytics and automation.
Use ofrealtime analytics to support timecritical operational decisions.
Our transformation roadmap is deliberately phased. We are building strong data foundations while simultaneously migrating and modernising critical operational reporting. From there we are moving into advanced capabilities realtime monitoring automated insights predictive spill risk identification and proactive asset and network management.
As a Wastewater Improvement Data Analyst you will be at the forefront of this investment applying these new capabilities to drive tangible environmental outcomes. Your work will directly support:
Reduction of wastewater environmental spills through predictive and exceptionbased analytics.
Enhanced regulatory compliance and reporting underpinned by trusted consistent data.
Smarter infrastructure investment decisions informed by evidence and riskbased insight.
Improved environmental performance enabled by nearrealtime monitoring and earlier intervention.
Youll join a purposedriven multidisciplinary team where analytics is not an addon but a critical enabler of operational excellence and environmental protection. This is an opportunity to work on highimpact nationally significant challenges while helping to shape the future of how Southern Water uses data and digital technology to serve customers and protect the environment.
Our Commitment to Diversity:
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds identities and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race ethnicity gender sexual orientation age disability religion or any other protected characteristic. If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please let us know.
Additional information:
In line with Southern Waters security requirements successful candidates will be required to provide evidence of their identity eligibility to work in the UK criminal record check (DBS) and verification of their employment and/or education history for the past three years.
Appointment to this role is subject to the successful completion of all preemployment checks including security vetting.
Please note that if a candidate does not meet the required security standards or fails to pass the vetting process Southern Water reserves the right to withdraw the offer of employment.
Some positions may also require higher levels of security vetting which may involve providing additional documentation.
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