Our Water Quality and Scientific Services teams play a vital role in ensuring we meet our regulatory commitments and maintain 100% compliance with Water Quality Sampling Regulations. Through regular and investigative sampling, our teams help safeguard water quality and uphold the confidence our customers place in us.
As a Sampling Technician you will play a key role in safeguarding water quality for our customers and communities. This role is a balance of technical fieldwork and office-based coordination, giving you variety and the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills.
When working in the field, you’ll carry out routine and non-routine sampling activities at Affinity Water sites and customer premises. You’ll often work independently, following strict quality control procedures to collect water samples that meet the highest standards, including compliance with UKAS (DWTS) requirements. Your work will be central to ensuring water safety and quality across our supply network.
When based in the office, you’ll support the planning and organisation of sampling operations. This includes preparing collection schedules for compliance, operational, and ad-hoc samples, as well as managing customer queries about water quality.
You’ll help arrange and attend customer appointments, plan sampling rotas, reschedule work when needed, and provide support with AQC activities.
To help you succeed, you’ll be fully trained by a Sampling Team Leader and will take part in company-led training and development, including safety-critical courses such as Health & Safety, COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health), and Manual Handling. This will give you the confidence and technical knowledge to carry out your responsibilities safely and effectively.
Advert Closing Date: 15/10/26
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.
Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.
You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.
Our vision is to be the leading community-focused water company.
Water is essential for life so the service we provide is vital for the customers we serve – this is a very special responsibility. We are the largest water-only supplier in the UK, delivering more than 940 million litres of safe, high quality drinking water to our 3.6 million customers each and every day!
In order to do this brilliantly we need really special people on our team. So if you have a passion for achievement, set sky-high personal standards, want to work in a great environment and love delivering great service for customers you should think seriously about joining us.
