Regional Maintenance Manager

Regional Maintenance Manager

Working hours Full time 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements will be considered)

Permanent

Salary up to £75,000 (depending on experience) plus Car Allowance

Location Regional role covering Durham and Consett areas 

Are you passionate about caring for the environment? We have an exciting opportunity to join our Maintenance team as a Regional Maintenance Manager, working to deliver high quality leadership to a large team of 35 Technicians, 4 Technical Planners and 4 Team Managers, who are providing Maintenance services to our internal and external customers.

Our Regional Maintenance Manager will drive improvement across areas including safety, compliance, people, service, cash and continuous improvement.

Working across the business, the role is required to balance the needs of multiple internal customers and stakeholders and will act as a senior point of contact and the focal point for the allocated area in terms of all escalations representing the department on incidents and events.

Building healthy and strong relationships the role holder will need use their network with operations, capital delivery, engineering, SHE, planning and scheduling, BCM, reliability engineering and the supply chain to deliver outstanding results.

With a continuous improvement mindset and working closely with their peer group, the role holder will be accountable to deliver improvements to metrics, systems, ways of working and functional maturity.

About you

You will engage and inspire the teams you lead and will project yourself with impact and be articulate.

A highly influential colleague, you will be able to effectively interact and at all levels across the business and effectively manage the needs of multiple stakeholders.

With outstanding organisational and time management skills, you will be able to balance multiple priorities in a fast paced and dynamic working environment. You will have the flexibility and responsiveness to quickly identify and react to emergent issues.

Technically credible, you will have a Level 4 or Level 5 qualification in a relevant technical discipline and should either have, or be working towards, professional registration at either IEng or CEng level.

You will have extensive experience and an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the dynamics and requirements of busy and complex maintenance or process operations department across a large scale and geographically dispersed asset base. You should also have extensive knowledge of the statutory and regulatory requirements impacting the department.

This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked.

Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment. 

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.  We have our colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks too.

About us

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, and that female candidates are less likely to apply if they don’t have the full range of skills, however if you have some of the skills listed, we 'd encourage you to apply.

NWG at a glance:

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.

We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.

Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

Our benefits

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues.

Benefits to include, here’s just a few of them:

• Enhanced maternity pay
• Enhanced annual leave with additional special leave for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
• Company pension scheme
• Digital GP
• Award winning wellbeing website
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life assurance
• Qualification loans
• Professional subscription
• Buy and sell annual leave
• Discounts and cashback offers