Maintenance Team Manager in Wallsend

We have an exciting opportunity within Northumbrian Water Group as a Maintenance Team Manager in the Howdon, Tyne and Wear area. As Team Manager you will provide high quality leadership to a large team of frontline maintenance technicians of various disciplines (Electrical, Mechanical and Instrumentation) in their activities to maintain and repair plant and machinery across the water and wastewater directorates.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring the maintenance team are all current and competent in respect to their core trade skills, plant specific knowledge, business process and system skills and safety procedures and policies and to support individual development. We’re looking for you to be a role model of safety leadership whilst driving a safety culture within their work area and deliver full compliance to all safety control processes as well as supporting a proactive approach to risk control, reduction and elimination making sure all our people go home safe every day.

You’ll manage key stakeholders in the organisation, owning and reporting on maintenance performance as well as handling high impact incidents and escalations. You will create an environment for your team to thrive and deliver great results as well as building trust and clear communications with our customers. In addition, you will promote a culture where everyone has a great experience at work bringing about positive outcomes for people, our business, our customers and the wider communities. As part of this role, you will work on a standby rota arrangement.

We are looking for someone with a Maintenance / Engineering background that will promote and drive a culture of continuous improvement within the department. You will have experience leading a multi discipline Maintenance team, along with proven experience managing minor projects and the ability to understand, interpret, evaluate, and manage project plans relating to procedural, systems and physical change. You will also have proven practical experience in a technical role.

You will be able to adapt to fast changing priorities in an operational world and be able to work under pressure to ensure results. You will be able to communicate clearly and confidently to a range of audiences both verbally and in writing, and the ability to quickly establish and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

We’re looking for you to have a proven understanding of engineering principles in at least one discipline, as well as the broad requirements of technical safety legislation (PUWER, EAWR, PSSR, DSEAR, COSHH, LOLER). You’ll also have proven working knowledge of internal safety control processes (PTW, LOTO, CDM, Risk Assessment, and Electrical Safety Process).

We’re also looking for you to have a BTEC ONC or HNC in an electrical, mechanical or electronic discipline and proven experience in a leadership & management and/or qualification in a business-related subject. We are also looking for someone who has gained, or is working towards, professional registration with the Engineering council.

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 will 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 our colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.

Here at 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.

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.

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 23 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 is a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment, prospective employees will be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be within four weeks of their start date. Those 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.