Role: Operations & Maintenance Manager (Water Industry)
Salary: circa £55,000 per annum + annual bonus
Location: Hybrid: South Wales - regular site visits and home-working across your region
Role Type: Permanent, Full-Time, 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday) plus 1 in 7 standby rota
Benefits: 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, birthday day off, generous annual incentive scheme, car allowance, Westfield healthcare plan for you and your dependents, excellent pension scheme, buy/sell annual leave, flexible working hours, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced maternity and paternity benefits, comprehensive health & wellbeing programme and lots more!
From Portsmouth to Helston and from Anglesey to Worcester, the Operations and Maintenance team are a busy unit who make sure over 1,000 MOD clean and wastewater sites run to standard 365 days a year. To make sure we continue delivering a first-class service time after time, we are now seeking a water industry specialist to lead our dedicated and supportive Operations and Maintenance team in South Wales (check out the Areas we operate - Ancala Water Services).
We are seeking individuals who are driven, resilient and water-industry proficient to allow you to support the day-to-day operations and maintenance of our clean and wastewater assets. Using your expertise in a similar role - perhaps gained with one of the SU’s or perhaps within a smaller, private company - you’ll be pivotal in delivering our operational objectives in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible. You’ll use your wealth of experience in a similar role to minimise operational disruption, to seek and implement improvements and lead our critical O&M team across our large operational area. On occasion, you’ll deputise for our team of seven Operations and Maintenance Managers to ensure we can continue to provide an excellent service to our valued customers. You will be key in ensuring that our assets across the MOD estate comply with regulatory and contractual obligations, as well as keeping our customers at the core of all we do. Our ideal candidate will be a proven people manager with stacks of water industry experience and a flair for continuous improvement. You’ll ideally be based in Swansea, Cardiff or Chepstow and the surrounding areas but if you’re a little out of these areas, we’d still be thrilled to hear from you!
Role Responsibilities:
- Assessing and improving current processes across our operations and maintenance team
- Effective leadership and management of a field-based operations team, along with effective and timely budget management
- Driving forward a strong health, safety, environment and wellbeing culture
- Acting as an area Subject Matter Expert for Ancala Water Services and advising upon best practice solutions
- Building strong, trusted relationships with the wider business such as Asset Management, Project Management and Commercial teams
- Managing and developing relationships with external partners and representing AWS to key stakeholders where required
Essential Skill, Knowledge and Experience:
- Technical water industry knowledge and experience gained within a water and wastewater operations and maintenance environment
- Demonstrable understanding and experience of H&S practices to include managing contractors (IOSH qualified or equivalent)
- Experienced with coordinating internal project work and supply chain project work in a reactive environment
- Skilled and confident IT skills to include MS Office, mobile devices and experience with different software packages and databases
- Experience of managing large budgets, along with strong financial and commercial acumen
- Effective, inclusive leadership of field-based teams
- Ability to deliver operational requirements to meet challenging targets and deadlines
- Confident and persuasive communicator with all hierarchical levels and able to explain technical information clearly
- Skilled with developing and maintain strong relationships to establish reliability, credibility and expertise
About you:
Due to the nature of sites on which we operate, the successful candidate must:
- Meet the security vetting requirements for the role which includes, but is not limited to, the successful candidate being a full-time resident of the UK for the past 5 years and an enhanced DBS Check
- Possess a valid driving licence and be comfortable driving to different sites regularly across our operational areas. There will also be overnight stays on occasion
Please note, we may need to close the advert earlier than advertised so try and get your application in as soon as possible.