ESOS & Flexibility Services Specialist

ESOS and Flexibility Services Specialist Salary & Benefits :

We offer a salary from £41,133 - £49,729 per annum, depending on experience

• Travel expenses for operational site visits
• Annual performance related bonus
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution)
• Development opportunities in line with the ESOS & Flexibility Services Specialist progression plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - plus an extra wellness day!
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• 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!

We have an exciting opportunity for an ESOS & Flexibility Services Specialist to join the Energy Team within the wider Commercial Services team at Yorkshire Water.

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.

The Energy team play a key role in the company's energy needs and costs. Yorkshire Water operates 4,200 sites across Yorkshire at approx. £110m per annum energy costs, they are a significant proportion of the company's Opex. Therefore, being able to improve the energy efficiency of our site operations is an important aspect of our new energy strategy. Yorkshire Water also generates a significant proportion of site consumption from renewable assets and plans to double this by 2030.

You will be responsible for Yorkshire Water's ESOS Compliance (Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme) and developing opportunities in the area of Flexibility Services. You will use your understanding of energy efficiency practise and water industry engineering knowledge, to work with site operational colleagues to perform site assessments and produce all reports necessary for ESOS compliance.

This role offers the opportunity to develop the area of Flexibility Services identified by our energy strategy. With our ongoing investment in renewable generation and existing sites featuring multiple sources of generation and export, the business is looking to leverage our assets and develop revenue streams from government incentives and third party collaborations.

• Maintain ESOS compliance for Yorkshire Water including ESOS Assessments, required energy audits and evidence packs
• Produce action plan and annual progress updates using third party support where necessary
• Undertake site surveys and develop ESOS standard energy reports for approval by Yorkshire Water Lead Assessor
• Be the interface between the Energy Team and the Energy Optimisation Team that has the remit to deliver the Energy Efficiency Optimisation (EEO) programme element of the Energy Strategy
• Utilise and manipulate data to provide support for business case development and to determine performance benefits of deployed energy efficiency works
• Identify and deliver flexibility service opportunities identified by the Energy Strategy in the areas of grid services and capacity management

• Significant experience working in the water, waste water or similar processing industries, or…