Network Engineer

time left to apply End Date: August 29, 2025 (1 day left to apply)

job requisition id JR6801

Closing Date

2025-09-12

Closing Date

2025-09-12

Job Title: Network Engineer

Location: Ashford

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time, Monday - Friday

Salary: Starting from £34,100 depending on experience plus a company van

It's a great time to join our organisation as we continue with our Transformation and build towards a greener and more resilient future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact, and reducing our carbon footprint!

In this Network Engineer role your focus will be to protect some of our most important stakeholders, our customers and the local environment from being negatively impacted from Southern Water activities. This will involve you engaging with customers to understand any problems they might have and looking for solutions to resolve them.

To achieve this, you will work closely with other departments within the wastewater function to determine the root cause of pollution and flooding events, as well as customer related issues that may have occurred as a result. Writing reports to fully document findings and creating action plans to prevent similar issues from becoming problems in the future.

Technically, it would be beneficial for you to have an understanding of wastewater network s, along with experience of working with internal and external stakeholders and an analytical approach to understanding, describing, and solving real world problems.

This role operates across the week with the core hours being Monday to Friday's 08:00 - 16:00, however there is an out of hours element to the role that would be completed on a rota'd basis amongst the team.

This is the type of role where you will be happy working both on your own but also with others as you will need to work with different departments both internally and externally to understand, plan and implement the actions required to keep on top of the asset risks.

No 2 days will be the same in this role, as you will be working with and alongside so many different departments which will expose you to many sectors within the industry, helping you to gain a wealth of knowledge and building your own personal development.

As well as the friendly, welcoming team and the attractive salary, Southern Water also offer excellent benefits which include:

• Training and development opportunities

• Company and performance-related bonus

• Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution

• Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary

• Health benefits through a Cash Plan

• Two paid community volunteering days a year

• 25 days annual holiday

• Occupational health service

• Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on a number of products and experiences

• Study support may be available for job -related qualifications

• We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options

You will need to be:

• IT Literate

• Great Communication skills

• The ability to interpret data from an array of data sources

• Sound investigation skills

• Competent use of systems including map reading

• Can manage complex cases and see through to resolution

• Work effectively in a team and with the confidence to operate independently and under own initiative

• Practical skills, good technical knowledge of the wastewater industry

Join our Network s team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Interested in the role?

We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications so if you are interested in the position please do send your application over today to ensure consideration.

Every Body Welcome

We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to facilitate your participation in the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to showcase their skills and experience.

We succeed together

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support - because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That's why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you'll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

• Company and performance-related bonus
• Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
• Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
• Health benefits through a Cash Plan
• Two paid community volunteering days a year
• 25 days annual holiday
• Occupational health service
• Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options

Need flexibility in your work?

Does this opportunity excite you but you're not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that 'normal' office hours aren't possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we'll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?