Company Updates

Congratulations to our risk team who won the top prize for Risk Management Programme of the Year at the CIR Awards this week. The team, made up of our employees and Stantec has transformed the systems and processes to manage threats and opportunities on our multi-billion pound construction projects, making us an industry leader in risk management. “Siobhan and her team have delivered a truly world class programme which is already delivering benefits to our teams delivering complex projects,” said Neil Colman, our director of engineering and construction. “Beating competition from global names such as Barclays and BT underlines the quality the judges identified in this programme,” he added. Read more about the team's work here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMudZ

Our fat, oil, grease and #TheUnflushables team has helped reduced blockages by 25% in the last three years. The team, who were named Drainage & Flood Management Initiative of the Year 2019, work closely with customers and businesses to avoid blockages and internal flooding. Support includes prevention advice, visiting ‘blockage hotspots’ and checking for fat, oil or grease in manholes, Read Water and Wastewater Treatment Magazine's piece to find out more about the team and their blockage-busting work: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vM07p

Well done to our Operational Excellence team who recently passed their Lean Competency training, delivered by Egremont Group. The accredited course has helped the team develop new skills for the future that’ll enable us to provide a better service to our customers. Head of Operational Excellence, Andy Beebee awarded certificates to the group, and team member, Katie said: “I thought the training was really through provoking, it makes you challenge things that are just accepted as the norm, big reality check.”

It was International Women In Engineering Day yesterday, and we celebrated the inspiring females across our business. With 22% of our engineers female, Techincal Skills Lead, Emily-Jo talks about her role in the field, and any advice she'd pass on to those thinking of a career in engineering: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMF7Z

This week we won an award at the Water Industry Awards for Drainage & Flood Management Initiative of the Year for our fat, oil, grease and the unflushables project. Congratulations to the team! In the last few years the team has visited and offered sewer flooding prevention advice to thousands of customers in blockage 'hotspots', and food businesses including restaurants, cafes and pubs: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMd3b.

We’re thrilled to have received recognition for two of our improvement schemes with CMDP at the National Considerate Constructors Awards! We received a Gold Award for our Tunbridge Wells North project and Silver for our Scaynes Hill scheme. Thank you Considerate Constructors Scheme. We're making improvements to a number of areas in our region to ensure we can continue to provide an essential service and water for life. Take a look at our current projects here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMdvt

We're thrilled to have won the Institutes of Water's South East Innovation Award for our River Itchen Challenge! An incentive scheme to help Hampshire villages save water and protect the river's wildlife, overall we collectively reduced water use in the area by 8%. Ben Earl, Water Efficiency Manager: "We are aiming to be at the forefront of taking action to effectively manage water resources, keep bills affordable, drive innovation and support our customers. "Many thanks to the communities for all your hard work!" Watch our film with Ben to find out more about the challenge, and thoughts on how we could use incentive schemes again in the future to save water http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMXGm

We're thrilled Sir James Bevan - head of the Environment Agency - is joining us on our water saving journey - #Target100 - to help customers reduce their water use to 100 litres per person, per day by 2040: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMCrv The first of its kind in the industry, our ambitious initiative aims to help provide #WaterforLife and tackle future challenges our region faces, including climate and population growth. Our CEO, Ian McAulay recently wrote a blog on our Target 100 programme, and talks about the ways we’re planning to reach this. Take a look here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMCrP

It's National Apprenticeship Week and we're celebrating our engineering and mechanical apprentices. There are around 20 people on both schemes and it’s an excellent first step into the industry, providing apprentices with the skills and knowledge needed for a career in engineering. Megan is a Mechanical Apprentice. “I would recommend it to my friends because it’s a lot of fun, you get to meet great people and learn a lot of new skills during it.” The groups also have a mentor to support them during their apprenticeship. Graham is a Mechanical Technician at Peacehaven and apprenticeship mentor. “My role as a mentor is to pass on my knowledge and experience and help guide new apprentices into the Southern Water way of working, and develop them into excellent mechanical technicians. “If anyone’s thinking of becoming an apprentice I would say do it. It’s good to have a qualification and skill behind you that is recognised throughout the industry.” Take a look at our film to find out how the newest intake of apprentices are getting on: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMAWc