Rheolwr Buddsoddiad a Pherfformiad Asedau in Cardiff

Location: South East Hub

Salary: £55,000.00 - Competitive DOE

Summary: This is a high-impact senior role with asset ownership responsibility for over 800 wastewater treatment works and a value improvement programme of approximately £730 million covering treatment, bioresources, growth, resilience, and compliance. You will manage a multidisciplinary team central to some of the biggest investment and performance challenges at Dŵr Cymru, shaping how we improve performance, compliance, and asset health now while influencing the long-term investment strategy through PR29 and beyond.

As our Investment and Asset Performance Manager, you will play a key role in shaping investment across our portfolio of wastewater treatment assets, ensuring our decisions deliver the right outcomes for our customers, the environment, and the long-term performance of our assets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee the development and prioritisation of the investment programme in assets, ensuring that investment supports utility targets, statutory obligations, performance commitment levels, and our broader Asset Management Strategy.
• Manage and develop a team of Asset Managers, Performance Specialists, and Technicians.
• Act as the asset owner representative for your portfolio, providing direction through developing solutions, appraising options, approving investments, and governance.
• Prioritise and recommend asset interventions based on asset health, risk, performance, regulatory commitments, and customer outcomes.
• Manage programme budgets within the wider portfolio, ensuring investment decisions are based on sound evidence and are affordable.
• Act as a sponsor for capital plans, producing high-quality investment papers and supporting effective governance through programme steering groups.
• Oversee asset lifecycle management across the portfolio, balancing performance, risk, and cost to support our long-term asset management strategy.
• Work closely with Operations and Engineering departments to validate investment needs, understand operational constraints, and develop practical recommendations.
• Collaborate with Planning and Finance departments to ensure investment decisions align with our long-term plans.
• Develop and monitor performance measures that strengthen asset knowledge, investment rationale, and confidence in delivery.
• Lead benefit realisation reviews to assess whether investment and mitigation activity has achieved the intended outcomes and use this information to inform future investment.
• Identify areas of poor or declining asset performance and work with operational colleagues to develop proportionate investment and mitigation plans.

About You: We are looking for an experienced asset management or infrastructure investment professional who can combine strong technical knowledge with the leadership skills needed to manage people, influence investment decisions, and work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders. You will be comfortable using information about asset health, performance, and risk to develop evidence-based investment recommendations and understand how investment decisions need to balance performance, regulatory requirements, affordability, and long-term asset needs.

Essential Qualifications:

• Degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Asset Management, Environmental Science, or another relevant technical discipline.

Essential Experience:

• Experience as a senior manager in asset management or infrastructure investment in a regulated environment.
• Experience in developing, prioritising, and governing capital investment programmes at a regional or asset system level.
• Experience applying risk-based and evidence-led approaches to investment planning and recommendations.
• Strong understanding of asset service delivery, particularly in Water or Wastewater, as relevant to the role.
• Experience managing and supporting technical teams.
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders and contributing to regulatory and assurance processes.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong knowledge of asset lifecycle management, investment planning, and portfolio prioritisation.
• Understanding of the regulatory, performance, and risk factors affecting investment in assets in the water sector or similarly regulated industry.
• Ability to translate information about asset health, risk, and performance into clear investment recommendations.
• Strong analytical skills, including option appraisal, cost-benefit analysis, and justifying investment.
• Excellent management, communication, and influencing skills in relation to stakeholders.

Additional Information:

• Line management responsibility: Yes
• Responsible for budget: Yes

Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary, 36 days of annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a variety of benefits and rewards to employees, including:

• Option to purchase additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – employer contributions of up to 11%
• Free Mortgage Brokerage Services
• Family-friendly policies
• Opportunities for progression, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Gym and fitness discounts as well as high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts at all visitor attractions and Dŵr Cymru gift shops
• Car leasing scheme and free on-site parking at all locations
• Health Cash Plan and access to online family doctor service
• Employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family

For more information, please visit our website.

About Us: Dŵr Cymru keeps 3 million people healthy every day with safe, reliable water, and takes wastewater to be treated before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas. To provide essential high-quality services that help protect the health of our customers, colleagues, and our environment, we need the right people to deliver our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The safety of our people, our assets, and our information is paramount to us, so we seek people who understand and comply with the company's required safety objectives. We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity, and inclusion provide the foundation for our culture at Dŵr Cymru. We want every individual to feel confident, proud, and able to be themselves at work. To ensure better representation in our workforce, applications from underrepresented groups are particularly welcome, including Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic people, women, LGBTQ+, non-binary people, and people with disabilities. Together we continue to create a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents every customer we serve. Essentially, our company is built on trust, openness, respect, commitment, and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.