Private UK utility supplying drinking water and treating wastewater across southern England.
You will join Southern Water’s Wastewater Treatment Team, maintaining and repairing wastewater treatment works, sludge centres, and pumping stations while ensuring compliance with environmental, quality, and safety standards and supporting continuous improvement.
Key duties involve reactive and planned mechanical and electrical maintenance, installing and commissioning new plant, responding to alarms and diagnosing faults, performing inspections and testing, and providing technical support to internal teams and external contractors. Accurate recording of maintenance activities, fault reports, and compliance documentation is required, as is contributing ideas to improve reliability, efficiency, and environmental performance.
Employees understand the importance of 24/7 incident support to resolve issues quickly, and the role may involve participation in out‑of‑hours rotas to ensure customers receive reliable water services.
The Process Technician – Multiskilled role closes on 2026-01-22 and is based in Canterbury, Kent, with travel across multiple sites and a required full UK driving licence. It is a permanent position working 38 hours per week, offering a salary between £38,144.10 and £45,284 per annum depending on skills and experience, plus a benefits package that includes a company van for business use, a fuel card, a health care cash plan, and pension contributions up to 11%.
Southern Water invests heavily in the future of the water industry, with £7.8 bn planned for 2025‑30, offering career progression, training, and development opportunities for its employees.