Water Supply Manager (Capital Programme)

Water Supply Manager (Capital Programme)

Full Time

Permanent

Salary – circa £60k + other benefits

Location – Hanningfield, Chelmsford

Will require regular travel across Essex and Suffolk operating area 

About the role

We’ve an exciting opportunity to join us as a Water Supply Manager (Capital Programme) across Essex & Suffolk.

In the role you will be expected to facilitate the delivery of our Capital Programme. Providing a strong link between Asset, Operations and Capital Delivery you will ensure schemes are delivered in line with operational and capital requirements through excellent working relationships, outages, and innovation. You will ensure you deliver the programmes via indirect leadership of Team Managers and their teams. This will require credibility, competency and relationship building at a variety of levels in the business.

You will ensure capital schemes will deliver as intended from an operational perspective, with the right risks balanced, through appropriate liaison and relationships between capital and operational teams. You will enable the capital programme through well planned outages as well as ensuring that the right risk is taken to enable outages. You will innovate to deliver difficult outages and ensure efficiency where appropriate.

You’ll also be part of a wider team of Water Supply Managers covering the Essex and Suffolk operating region.

You’ll work closely with internal and external stakeholders such as water quality, service planning, asset investment and maintenance. We’re looking for you to develop and maintain strong relationships with our capital project teams to ensure effective delivery of the agreed solution.

In the role we will provide you with development opportunities in Leadership, Project Delivery and Budget/Financial Management within Essex & Suffolk Water and more widely in the Northumbrian Water Group.

If you want to find out more about the role, please reach out to Chris Fulton, Head of Water Supply.

Chris.fulton@nwl.co.uk

About you

We’re looking for you to have a positive approach to things with a “can do attitude”, be resilient, organised, a great relationship builder and a great communicator with colleagues and stakeholders alike.  Experience leading diverse teams is essential and bringing your own skillset from your previous roles to help share best practice across the business.

Operational leadership experience in water would be highly advantageous, including technical operational and incident knowledge. 

A track record of creating working environments where site-based teams engage, plus experience of building peer networks is desirable.

Working in operations is a great way to understand our business and you’ll have lots of opportunity to work with and influence other departments to help improve performance.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.

Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.

We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation. 

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, 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. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 28 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
• Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.

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. 

Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. 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