Wastewater Treatment Team Manager

Wastewater Treatment Team Manager

Full time, 37 hours per week job share will be considered

Salary - £45,110 - £56,388 per annum (depending on experience) plus car allowance

Location – Northumberland Area

About the role

We’ve an amazing opportunity to join us as our Wastewater Treatment Team Managers in Northumberland within our Wastewater team here at Northumbrian Water. We’re looking for you to lead and motivate operational teams to robustly manage the operation of people, process, and our assets.

This is a pivotal leadership role within the Wastewater team as the successful candidate will be responsible for leading and supporting our operational teams, developing a culture of empowerment, mutual trust, and inclusion whilst maintaining our excellent compliance record.

This is a rewarding role that will see you take responsibility for protecting our environment through ensuring compliance with Wastewater & Environmental Quality standards and that supply meets demand for water recycling treatment.

We’re looking for you lead by example as the team manager and point of contact for all safe systems of work, ensuring our assets perform safely and efficiently whilst meeting our environmental, quality and departmental targets. It also extends from the daily processes at a site level to the wider Wastewater team, providing input and support on Efficiency and Innovation Projects,

About you

You’ll be extremely driven and have the ability to balance the demands of leading a team and working in the fast paced and ever-changing Production environment. You’ll be a proven effective leader, with an emphasis on engagement and team working. Excellent communication skills both written and verbally are essential.

We’re looking for you to have proven knowledge of the application of safety and quality systems and procedures, along with proven experience of building positive and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, as well as being effective at appropriately challenging existing practices.

We are looking for you to be safety focussed, have a proven track record for delivering consistently and driving efficiency, someone with a keen eye for detail, an analytical approach and the creative flair to problem solve in an environment which operates 24/7.

A leader who is flexible and able to own the challenges of maintaining the high standards set, you’ll have a good technical competence with knowledge of the Wastewater Treatment and Bioresources Processes or transferrable skills and experience in process or production fields.

A full driving licence is essential.

We’re open to candidates from other backgrounds that can bring new ways of working and thinking to our business. We’re interested in candidates with transferrable knowledge and skillsets from other sectors, with a willingness and capability to learn.

We offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements, balancing working from home, in offices spread across our operating regions. We welcome applications from those returning from career breaks and job sharing and/or part time contracts will also be considered.

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. 

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

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.

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 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