Leakage Analyst in Oldham

United Utilities’ (UU) purpose is to deliver great water for a stronger, greener and healthier North West of England. We are committed to providing our services in a way that respects the environment, supports the economy, and benefits society. We value diversity, inclusion and innovation in our workplace, and we foster a culture where our people can grow, excel, and be themselves. We uphold our ethics, values and business model to fulfil our mission and, by setting clear goals and objectives, we create sustainable long-term value for our colleagues, customers and communities.

The role allows Water Networks to deliver against its strategic targets by the delivery against the Distribution Operations Maintenance Strategy (DOMS), Leakage Customer and Efficiency targets within the regulatory framework. This role is pivotal in helping United Utilities Water Network achieve its vision. You will ensure that high quality information is produced that enables effective and efficient management of our water resources by identifying areas for leakage detection through analysis of flow, pressure and consumption data playing a critical part in allowing UU to achieve its company leakage target.

Key accountabilities:

• Ensuring all information reported is Reliable, Accurate and Complete
• Collecting, processing and analysing data provided by Operations and Asset Management and Delivery
• Reacting to flow changes in an appropriate manner to ensure any outbreaks of leakage are resolved effectively
• Being responsible for producing DMA and Upstream leakage reports for Network Operations
• Being a local expert user for Netbase & INS
• Ensuring that Asset Data is maintained correctly on our corporate systems
• Identifying areas of interest for detection teams
• Liaising with the Supply and Demand team to ensure that data input into the corporate leakage reporting systems is accurate
• Providing information to improve the effectiveness of our resources
• Scheduling work for detection teams
• Reviewing consumption data to ensure that it has been accurately recorded
• Ensuring all activities comply with Health and Safety Legislation, including dynamic risk assessment
• Being responsible for your own development
• Working in partnership with operations, alliance and contract employees to ensure work activities are completed within the agreed timescales

Skills & experience:

• Able to demonstrate good technical understanding.
• You will have an understanding of water network connectivity, pressure control and leakage detection methods as well as understanding the impact Leakage has on UU's vision to be a world class operator of utility infrastructure.
• Be proactive and confident in the way you deal with work and in dealing with the wider team
• Have the ability to manage own workload and work on own initiative to strict deadlines
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills
• Have the ability to work as a team to deliver high performance and have a proven record of achieving goals, objectives and scorecard measures
• Have working experience of Microsoft office applications including advanced excel knowledge
• Demonstrate experience of Netbase, Watercore (or other trending software), Onemap & INS