Operational Readiness Manager

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Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:

• We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience – up to £70,000 (band 3b)
• A company car lease/allowance scheme (£500 per month/£6,000 per year, based on full-time employment on joining the company). You can opt to sign up to the EV Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme 6 months after joining the company.
• Annual incentive related bonus up to 15% of annual salary
• Private health care (self only)
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution)
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – plus 2 extra wellness days!
• A great benefits package – choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Location: This role will initially be based in Bradford but we’re moving our office to Leeds Valley Park in September 2026, so you’ll be based there in the future - Hybrid Working (2 – 3 days office a week – Bradford/Leeds)

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

We have an exciting opportunity for an Operational Readiness Manager to join the Asset Delivery & Engineering team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. 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.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. Asset Delivery & Engineering are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

The Operational Readiness Manager is responsible for ensuring that Yorkshire Water’s capital investment programme delivers assets that are fully operationally ready from day one. With AMP8 representing a significant increase in the scale and complexity of capital delivery, this role provides a dedicated focus on embedding operational readiness throughout the project lifecycle, addressing the historic challenge of readiness activities being concentrated towards project completion, which can extend handover periods and increase operational and commercial risk.

As the single point of accountability for the Operational Readiness framework, the role owns the development and implementation of readiness standards, governance arrangements, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement across the capital programme. Operating within the Engineering function, the Operational Readiness Manager works closely with Core Engineering, Maintenance Design, Engineering Design, Construction and Commissioning Assurance, as well as project delivery, operations, and asset management teams, to ensure readiness requirements are integrated into project planning and delivery, enabling safe, efficient, and timely asset handover.

As our Operational Readiness Manager you will

• Own and continuously develop Yorkshire Water’s Operational Readiness (OR) framework, establishing and maintaining readiness standards, stage-gate criteria, deliverables, and governance requirements that are applied consistently and proportionately across the capital programme according to project risk and complexity.
• Define, implement, and govern measurable readiness requirements throughout the project lifecycle,…