Operations & Maintenance Manager; Water Industry

Position: Operations & Maintenance Manager (Water Industry)
Role:  Operations & Maintenance Manager (Water Industry)

Location:

South Wales - Hybrid with regular home-working and site visits as required across South Wales
Salary:  circa £56,000 with up to 20% annual bonus
Role Type:  Permanent, 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday) plus participating in a standby rota
Benefits:  28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, birthday day off, car allowance of £500 per month, Westfield healthcare plan for you and your dependents, generous pension scheme, flexible working hours, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental benefits, comprehensive wellbeing and health programme and lots more!

From Portsmouth to Helston and Anglesey to Worcester, our Operations and Maintenance team ensures more than 1,000 MOD clean water and wastewater sites operate safely, efficiently and compliantly every day of the year. To help us continue delivering an exceptional service, we are looking for an experienced water industry professional to join our Operations and Maintenance management team. We're seeking someone who is proactive, resilient and technically capable, with the expertise to support the day-to-day operation and maintenance of our clean water and wastewater assets across a large and diverse estate.

Whether your experience has been gained with one of the major water companies or a smaller private organisation, you will play a key role in achieving our operational objectives in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible. Drawing on your industry knowledge, you will help minimise operational disruption, identify and implement improvements and provide expert guidance to our Operations and Maintenance teams.

Above all, you will be instrumental in ensuring our clean water and wastewater assets across your region remain compliant with regulatory and contractual requirements, while keeping our customers at the heart of everything we do.

Role Responsibilities:

Assessing and improving current processes across our operations and maintenance team
Effective leadership and management of a field-based operations team, along with effective and timely budget management
Driving forward a strong health, safety, environment and wellbeing culture
Acting as an area Subject Matter Expert and advising upon best practice solutions
Building strong, trusted relationships with the wider business such as Asset Management, Project Management and Commercial teams
Responsible for managing an annual budget of approximately £1 million
Managing and developing relationships with external partners and representing AWS to key stakeholders where required
Essential Skill, Knowledge and

Experience:

Technical water industry knowledge and experience gained within a water industry operations and maintenance environment

Experience with managing and developing a field-based regional team
Demonstrable understanding, experience and application of H&S practices
Experienced with coordinating internal project work in a reactive environment
Skilled and confident IT skills to include MS Office, mobile devices and experience with different software packages, data analysis and database management

Experience of managing large budgets, along with strong financial and commercial acumen
Ability to deliver operational requirements to meet challenging targets and deadlines
Confident and persuasive communicator with all hierarchical levels and able to explain technical information clearly
Skilled with developing and maintain strong relationships to establish reliability, credibility and expertise
Due to the nature of sites on which we operate, the successful candidate must meet the UK SC Security Vetting requirements for the role which includes a full background check  .
In addition, you must possess a full, valid driving…