South East Water is a forward looking, innovative water company that has customers at the heart of its business. We supply top quality drinking water to 2.2 million people across the south east of England. From Aldershot in Hampshire across to Whitstable in Kent, our teams work hard to keep taps flowing across Hampshire, Berkshire,Surrey, Sussex and Kent. We are looking to recruit a Strategic Leakage Engineer to join our expanding Leakage team.

Leakage detection and resolution is important to our customers, regulators and to us. Each year we have to ensure that we meet a leakage target set by our regulator (OFWAT) and you will be working with the team that is responsible for ensuring this is achieved. As a skilled Leakage professional, you will be responsible for the design and planning of the individual leakage reduction projects / initiatives in support of delivering the company leakage performance commitment. In addition,you will provide technical support to the leakage optimisation and field detection teams.

This role requires good leakage and water distribution knowledge together with strong technical knowledge gained in the water industry. You will have good IT skills, be delivery focused with excellent communications skills and have the ability to influence at all levels.

This post is subject to a basic criminal record check and the Right to Work in the UK.

In return, we offer a competitive salary, a minimum of 25 days annual leave, a stakeholder pension scheme in which the maximum Company contribution is 10% and a life assurance scheme.

Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.