Junior Data Analyst - Water Leakage

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RPS Tetra Tech is seeking a Junior Data Analyst to join our growing and vibrant West Wales AS&I team, supporting data‑driven project delivery for a range of clients. This is a key opportunity to contribute to impactful transformation initiatives through intuitive, interactive, and strategic data solutions.

The RPS Asset, Surveying, and Inspection (AS&I) team provides industry–leading services to the UK Water Industry. Our employees are involved in services supporting Water Networks, Drainage, Surveying, Leakage Consultancy, Water Resources and Efficiency. The team analyzes complex data and provides pragmatic solutions, reducing water leakage and preventing flooding and pollution in local communities.

Our Welsh Water asset management and delivery professionals develop and deliver industry‑leading solutions in flooding, pollution, water quality and leakage. Our team finds and repairs leaks on the network to minimise water wastage, benefitting Welsh Water customers and the environment.

As a key member of the AS&I business, your role as a Junior Data Analyst is critical to our strategic priorities – to deliver excellent customer service and execute complex operational tasks. Whether you are just starting out or taking the next step, this position provides an opportunity for career growth with RPS.

You will help our client unlock the value of their data by designing, building, and optimizing business intelligence reports and dashboards that enable smart decision‑making. You’ll work across a diverse range of digital projects and corporate applications, delivering new insights and enhancing existing systems. The role also involves putting data in action and supporting our engineering teams on site. You will report to the Contract Supervisor, be responsible for training and mentoring leakage staff, ensuring best practice leakage methods are used and contributing to leakage reduction and performance within West Wales. Approximately 50% of the time will be spent in the office, with the rest on site. You must be willing to work weekends, evenings, odd hours, and travel to different locations.

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• Adept in developing, publishing, and scheduling Power BI reports as per the business requirements.
  
• Using exploratory data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and outliers in data.
  
• Mining data from software applications used for investigations, reporting, metrics, and trending.
  
• Proficient with inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and analysing raw data to discover useful information, inform conclusions, and support effective decision‑making.
  
• Responsible for designing and building scalable data models and enabling advanced analytic capabilities that provide meaningful business value through easy‑to‑understand data visualisations.
  
• Collaborating with key stakeholders to deliver relevant insights based on identified business requirements.
  
• Working independently through unstructured tasks.
  
• Strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
  
• Ensuring that Health and Safety is maintained and upholding RPS Company Policies at all times.
  
• Undertaking training and completing detailed individual training matrix/plans.
  
• Assessing and ensuring good leakage practice is always adhered to and reporting.
  
• Working closely with under‑achieving staff to ensure targets are achieved and maintained.
  
• Attending client meetings when required.
  
• Trialling new equipment and producing detailed reports.
  
• Forming and maintaining excellent working relationships with colleagues, contractors, and clients.
  

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• Good understanding and demonstrable working knowledge of computer software packages (Microsoft, GIS, and specific technical programs, etc.).
  
• Track record of training and delivery.
  
• Ability to interpret and understand water network schematics and plans to a high standard.
  
• Strong knowledge of Water Network Hydraulics, Leakage Detection Techniques, Monitoring and reporting of Leakage Levels and other issues associated with the Clean Water Industry.
  
• Excellent working knowledge of leakage delivery.
  
• Ability to quickly learn new theories, techniques and working methods and deliver to leakage staff.
  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable effective communication with internal and external colleagues, technical specialists, consultants, and senior managers.
  
• Well organised with the ability to manage own workload and meet allocated deadlines.
  
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage conflicting deadlines whilst maintaining attention to detail and high standards.
  
• Enjoys working as a team and has a flexible “can‑do” attitude, possessing a cooperative attitude to working and giving and receiving help.
  

This role may involve:

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• Moving heavy items including inspection chamber covers.
  
• Working in all weather conditions (including night work).
  
• Working in confined spaces and on highways.
  
• Mandatory drug and alcohol tests and a DBS check will be undertaken.
  

A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway put you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go. A career here is far from ordinary – you’re part of the solution.

We’re a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly, empowering our people to create a work‑life balance that’s right for them. We also value collaboration and social connection in the office environment. With agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we trust our people to find the right balance to meet client needs – a workplace that works for you.

RPS, part of Tetra Tech since January 2023, is a global firm that defines, designs, and manages projects in urbanisation, natural resources, and sustainability. As part of Tetra Tech’s 28,000‑strong team across 550 offices in over 120 countries, we deliver solutions that create lasting value in an increasingly urbanised and resource‑scarce world. By leveraging our global expertise, we enable our clients to develop winning solutions for their clients and communities. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to provide market‑leading development and project opportunities for our people, supporting their growth while addressing the challenges that matter. Our people drive our success, and this is where you come to build a career.

If we feel you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange a competency interview. If this opportunity suits your career journey, we’d love to hear from you. All applications will be considered.

We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted partners to assist us when required and do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies not on this list. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require any further information.

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• Seniority level: Entry level
  
• Employment type: Full‑time
  
• Job function: Information Technology
  
• Industries: Business Consulting and Services