Asset Manager (Water/Wastewater Networks)

Location: Hybrid, Barnsley (S75 1JN min. 2 office days per week)

Salary: circa £48,000 to £50,000 per annum up to 20% bonus

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 function, you'll use your experience within the water industry to help us achieve our objectives. You'll lead a small, curious and close-knit team to ensure optimum asset lifespan and work closely with our operational teams to optimise the maintenance of our assets and to accurately interpret the data the assets emit. By creating and embedding a proactive approach to asset management, you will guide our field-based teams, driven by asset data-based decisions. Your team's purpose will be to develop and maintain 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 also help to improve the performance of our wastewater networks & sewage treatment works.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Leading a small team to analyse data and produce maintenance plans to manage our water and wastewater networks
• Analysing and understanding the risk and criticality of our networks
• Accountability for leakage targeting and producing plans to ensure that annual leakage 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)
• Developing sustainable and dynamic Operations & Maintenance and Annual Capital Investment plans that consider asset network condition, cost, risk and performance
• Investigating issues and recommending innovative and cost-effective solutions

What You'll Bring:

• Experience of end-to-end leadership and management
• Knowledge and understanding of clean and wastewater networks gained in a similar role
• Specific Water Industry knowledge such as networks, flow and pressure hydraulics, leakage management & sewer maintenance
• 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 a private setting or via a statutory undertaker. You'll enjoy the interpersonal side to your role and work 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.

About you:

Due to the nature of sites on which we operate, the successful candidate must:

• Meet the UK Security Vetting 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 to sites that are frequently away from public transport routes

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and Ancala Water Services reserves the right to close the advert earlier than advertised.