Water Network Technical Co-Ordinator

Water Network Technical Coordinator

Full Time – 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements will be considered)

Permanent

Salary £43,041 - £53,801 (depending on experience)

Location: Washington

About the role

The Water Network Technical Coordinator is a pivotal senior role within the Water Directorate, providing technical support in the Regional Control team and reporting to the Regional Control Centre Manager. Based in Washington, this role supports the Northumbrian Water region.

The primary purpose of this role is to manage business risk related to the production, movement, or storage of potable water. This is achieved by offering analytical support that ensures consistent management, prediction, and protection across NWG’s entire water network.

As the Water Network Technical Coordinator, you will collaborate with multiple internal and external stakeholders to coordinate efforts and ensure projects are completed to maintain network resilience. Your expert knowledge will be key in forecasting, predicting, and mitigating potential network issues.

Key responsibilities include ensuring the safety of all employees, providing good levels of engagement, and overseeing the ongoing development of your team to ensure effective operations. You will work closely with key stakeholders to provide excellent customer service both internally and externally, and you will be responsible for the effective management of resource levels within your team.

About you

We’re looking for the successful candidate to have proven experience in owning and actively promoting key business processes while driving alignment and best practices. You should be able to take the lead and robustly influence internal stakeholders to understand and effectively use the coordination planning process, including coaching, mentoring, and training new and existing staff members.

You should have a demonstrated ability to engage and communicate persuasively with a broad range of stakeholders, both internal and external, up to the executive level. Strong influencing skills are essential, as is the ability to quickly establish credibility with senior stakeholders.

You must be adept at interpreting and interrogating large datasets and clearly and concisely communicating the outputs to advise colleagues across the business.

A working knowledge of cost control, optimisation, regulatory targets, and performance monitoring of quality parameters is essential.

The ideal candidate will be a proven team player who takes Health and Safety seriously and can undertake a demanding work schedule while remaining highly customer-focused.

About us

Here at Northumbrian 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. 

NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.

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 26 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

Interviews to take place 18th March