Role: Asset Manager (Water/Wastewater Networks)
Location: Hybrid, Barnsley (S75 1JN)
Salary: circa £48,000 per annum
Role Type: Permanent, Full-Time – Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week
Benefits: 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, paid birthday day off, generous annual bonus scheme, Westfield health cashback plan for you and your dependents, competitive pension scheme, flexible working hours, life assurance, critical illness cover, comprehensive wellbeing programme, enhanced maternity and paternity benefits plus much, much more!
Joining the high-performing Operations Unit, you’ll be a crucial member of the team and use your experience of the water industry to help us achieve our objectives. You’ll lead a curious and close-knit team to ensure optimum asset lifespan and work closely with our operational teams for the maintenance of our assets and to accurately interpret the data the assets omit. Leading a small team, you’ll create and embed a proactive approach to asset management and act as an advisor, guiding our field-based teams in line with asset data. The purpose of the team is to produce annual network management plans, which reduce the volume and cost of water leakage across our network. Working in line with challenging and industry targets, you’ll help improve the condition of our wastewater networks to reduce recurrence of waste issues. You’ll manage targets and provide interventions to ensure annual targets are achieved or exceeded. Using your previous experience, you will skilfully bring together operational and technical knowledge, people management and your own organisational skills, with the ability to manage and influence key stakeholders to schedule and execute the plan.
What You’ll Be Doing:
• Leading a small team through inclusive and supportive leadership to analyse data and produce maintenance plans to manage our water and wastewater networks
• Analysing and understanding the risk and criticality of our networks
• Managing targets and providing interventions to ensure that annual targets are met
• Developing and managing relationships with all internal and external customers and managing contractual obligations to the customer (e.g. MOD, DIO), along with regulatory obligations (e.g. Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, Local Authorities or Public Health)
• Writing and maintaining network strategy and management plans including the overall Abstraction Licencing plan, including regulatory submissions
• Developing sustainable and dynamic Operations & Maintenance and Annual Capital Investment plans that consider asset network condition, cost, risk and performance
• Investigating and recommending innovative and technological-based solutions to solve problems
What You’ll Bring:
• Demonstrable experience of inclusive and supportive leadership and management
• Knowledge and understanding of clean and wastewater networks gained in a similar role
• Specific Water Industry knowledge suck as Networks, Leakage Projects or abstraction licensing knowledge
• Programme planning knowledge and budget management experience
• Advanced IT skills, including MS Office and knowledge of work management systems or network management systems
• Confidence to communicate with all hierarchical levels and able to interpret technical information effectively
• A very high standard of written and verbal communication, including planning, prioritisation and presentation skills
Our ideal candidate will be a collaborative, persuasive and amiable individual who has gained direct or indirect water industry experience within in a private setting or via a statutory undertaker. You’ll be a subject matter expert and use your analytical skills to shape the future. You’ll enjoy the interpersonal side to your role and work collaboratively and effectively with your colleagues, particularly those within Operations & Maintenance field-based roles. You’ll support your team to reach their full potential and look forward to developing your small, friendly and hard-working team. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with a relevant science, engineering or business professional qualification and/or membership from a relevant body or institute, such as IAM, APM or CIWEM.
This is a hybrid role but as we manage the networks of over 1,000 sites, there will be opportunities for you to visit sites to gain wider understanding of the area and make key contacts within our field teams.
About you:
Due to the nature of sites on which we operate, the successful candidate must:
• Meet the security clearance 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’
• You will need a full, valid driving licence and be able to travel independently
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and Ancala Water Services reserves the right to close the advert earlier than advertised.