Modelling Manager

Salary & Benefits - £55-65k per annum dependent on experience, a company car lease/allowance scheme, annual incentive related bonus (up to 10% of annual salary), private health care, attractive pension scheme (Up to 10% company contribution), life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary and 25 days annual leave plus 8 x bank holidays and a wellness day. We also offer a fantastic flexible benefits package, where you can choose from benefits such as health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.

Colleagues also have access to a retail savings scheme, online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Location: Bradford/ Hybrid Working 1-2 days in the office per week - Bradford)

Work type:
Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday

We have an exciting opportunity for a Modelling Manager Alliance to join the Strategy & Regulation team supporting our new Storm Overflow Alliance team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water deliver its regulatory outcomes with regards to storm overflows, could this be you?

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it's so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire's water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region's health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

An unprecedented increase in investment for AMP8 and beyond and new environmental legislation and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry.

We are looking to expand our technical modelling function and capability to enable us to support our Storm Overflow Alliance and wider business to deliver key regulatory outputs. This is a key strategic role which offers the opportunity to support the business in delivering the Storm Overflow Discharge Reduction plan and any outputs of the Water Industry National Environment Plan in AMP8 and beyond.

You will have the opportunity to work with our alliance teams to develop and shape our technical assurance of scheme development and delivery to ensure we deliver high quality schemes which can be audited and assured.

As our Modelling Manager Alliance, you will lead, manage and develop a centre of excellence for modelling for the storm overflow alliance activities in AMP8 and beyond. You will use your extensive technical expertise, knowledge and relationships to influence and negotiate on matters relating delivery of the AMP8 storm overflow plan and identify risks and opportunities for YW and the alliance in relation to hydraulic modelling.

You will ensure that the appropriate models are utilised to generate appropriate solutions for inland and coastal bathing storm overflows alongside network and treatment works storm overflows and work with the existing Modelling & Data team to ensure that examples of best practice are represented within the Yorkshire Water modelling specifications.

You will work to ensure optimal and effective solutions are deployed in line with the Storm Overflow Discharge Reduction Plan (SORDP) and Water Industry National Environment Plan (WINEP) drivers relating to all our storm overflow investment, business drivers and aspirations for nature-based/blue-green and surface water removal.

You will manage the development of standards for model quality, modelling methodology and model audit procedure for the storm overflow alliance activities and develop a modelling centre of excellence for the Alliance and ensure compliance with modelling methodology and specifications and regular audits. You will need to understand and assess risks of using models and their impact on solutions and clearly…