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From solving severe water shortages across the globe to developing sustainable technology to protect the future of the planet, every day we are driven by our life-changing purpose to preserve, treat and recycle water. Our future-focused business is powered by passionate experts, all dedicated to creating groundbreaking solutions to protect our most precious resources. We create exciting careers in a people-first culture where inclusivity is everywhere, and skills development is every day. If you want to do life-changing work in a business with global impact and far-reaching opportunities, change your life today at Veolia Water Technologies.
Below are some of our job functions, have a read and see if you would be the right fit for Veolia Water Technologies:
Service Engineering.
Service Engineering encompasses a broad range of responsibilities, delivering vital services that require regular communication with the customer and every other Veolia Water Technologies business area.
We provide customers with serviceable items, such as replacements for consumables, and we monitor and service equipment either remotely or on-site. We also oversee all of Veolia’s technical documentation, equipment specifications, and maintenance instructions, ensuring proper preparation and storage while providing technical support to the wider business.
In the service engineering team, you’ll be on the lookout for potential future problems or reacting to new challenges as they arise, so you’ll know exactly where to find the best solution. You could be working at home, in the office, or at a customer site. Wherever you are, there’ll never be a dull moment.
Sales
Sales is a key pillar of Veolia Water Technologies, one that consistently drives us forward and delivers for the business. You’ll be finding solutions for a variety of customer needs in a wide range of industries, so a technical aptitude will go a long way. However, it’s just as important to be able to communicate and connect well with others.
As experts in our field, our role often involves challenging the customer, having an open conversation about their needs, and offering the best solution. Facing each challenge with a can-do attitude and a fresh perspective is what we're looking for. While each team within sales focuses on a specific area, if you’re willing to develop your knowledge and skills, you’ll find opportunities to broaden your role and diversify.
Scientific Sales
In the Scientific Sales team, you’ll work with customers across the whole of the UK, proposing solutions for pure and ultra-pure water for use in a range of laboratory applications. Whether you are working with pharmaceutical companies, life sciences institutions, or biotech – you’ll be helping to get our technology into places where it could influence the next generation of therapeutics.
Water Treatment Chemicals Sales
We sell a full range of chemicals, services, and associated technologies to support everything from larger industrial projects to smaller lab-based units. Join us and you could spend a lot of your time out on the road meeting potential clients, or you could be office-based, servicing existing clients. With an entrepreneurial approach and a focus on innovation, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to win new clients, make sales, and build repeat business.
Project Engineering.
As a Project Engineer, you’ll enjoy the opportunity to manage projects in any of the main water treatment sectors – whether that’s Municipal, Industrial Process, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, or Scientific. This means you could be responsible for the drinking water process in a major UK city, or decontaminating surgical waste water. All this and everything in between. As you oversee the highly technical side of projects, your role will span a wide range of skills - covering the whole project lifecycle. From liaising with clients and suppliers to handling budgets and planning, as well as problem-solving, managing engineers and finally providing a handover of the finished solution to the customer. It’s a department with plenty of variety and new challenges for you to face each day.
Customer Services
In Customer Services we connect everyone together. Join us and you’ll build your knowledge of the business to help direct customer enquiries to the right place, making sure engineers with the right experience are assigned to each job, and ensuring all relevant customer information is up-to-date and accessible on the Veolia system.
Scheduling
In the Scheduling team, you’ll liaise with customers in order to arrange visits from our engineers. From pharmaceutical companies and hospitals to food and drinks manufacturers - you’ll plan schedules for a range of customers, covering the entirety of the UK. When a customer has specific requirements, you’ll make sure an engineer with appropriate experience is assigned to the job. In essence, you’ll be using your organisational skills to keep everyone happy – colleagues and customers alike.
Level 1 Customer Care
This team is the first point of contact for all customer calls, so it will be your job to triage and distribute them to the right area of the business. You will also handle customer emails and our online LiveChat service, as well as supporting the sales team in providing customer quotes. In short, join us and you’ll be dealing with a range of issues while ensuring we maintain a positive customer experience.
Contracts
Working with our system requires technical skill and attention to detail, perhaps most of all within contracts. In this small but busy team, you will make sure that whenever a new contract is sold to a customer, it’s accessible to anyone at Veolia who needs to see it.
Admin
The perfect place to learn all about the inner workings of Veolia, your main job in the admin team will be to load relevant documents onto our computer system. Whether it’s purchase orders, requests for parts, or quotes for repairs, you’ll deal with a high volume of emails both from customers and other Veolia teams.
Corporate Functions
Our Corporate Functions deliver all the essential core services that enable our business to perform. IT, Human Resources, Marketing, Finance - working in any one of these departments, you’ll be keeping the Veolia Water Technologies cogs turning and enabling us to provide vital services for our clients and employees.
IT
Technology is at the heart of everything we do at Veolia. In the IT team, as well as designing, maintaining, and improving the systems that keep the business running, we also work closely with teams across Veolia on group-wide projects. Whether you’re developing specialised software for the unique needs of one of our departments, or using your expertise to recommend tools for a wide range of purposes, there are countless opportunities to learn and grow.
HR
In HR, you’ll be at the forefront of our evolving business, ensuring we attract and retain the best people to carry our business forward. Working closely with teams across Veolia, you’ll have the chance to be involved in a variety of projects, covering the full employment lifecycle, from recruitment and retention to learning and development programmes. With a wide scope for change and development, there’s never a dull moment.
Marketing
Veolia covers a range of different markets and supplies a number of different products, applications, and technologies, so you’ll enjoy plenty of variety in the Marketing team. You could be involved with inbound marketing campaigns, events, content & PR, digital marketing, category management, or business intelligence. As part of our European marketing team, you will also have the opportunity to work closely with other teams across Europe on a range of projects. This means there are always opportunities to learn and grow.
Your Career path:
We’re a business that recognises your worth. Once you’re part of Veolia Water Technologies, you’ll receive training on our processes and systems. When you find a chance to grow or progress internally, we encourage you to take those opportunities. With the enormous scope of the projects and work that we do, you could direct your career down any number of different paths - whether that’s within your own team, or across the organisation.
Whatever you choose, you’ll have our full support every step of the way.
Your professional development:
No matter where you are in your career, here at Veolia we're invested in supporting you to grow and make the most of your potential during your time with us. While you'll learn a lot on the job, our in-house online platform also features a wealth of informative self-learning resources. If you want to take your development a step further, we'll support you with external courses, as well as other opportunities to expand your knowledge and grow your skillset. Whatever your role you will connect with the wider business which can open up opportunities to move into other departments. As you learn, guidance and support will always be there for you when you need it. We encourage you to think about your future with regular career development discussions. Plus, your peers and experienced managers are happy to share their knowledge, coaching you through each new process.
However high you want to aim, Veolia will help you reach your targets.