Modelling Manager

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, starting from £62,000
• Annual incentive related bonus
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution)
• 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!

This role will initially be based in Bradford but we’re moving our office to Leeds Valley Park in Summer 2026, so you’ll be based there in the future. The role involves hybrid working, you will be expected in the office 2-3 days per week.

This is a permanent opportunity, working full time, 37 hours per week, within our working window of 8:00am-6:00pm, Monday - Friday.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Modelling Manager (Alliance) to join our expanding Strategy & Regulation team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to deliver environmental improvements and provide the best service to our customers. The role will have the opportunity to influence our delivery of solutions for storm overflows using modelled information and leading the way on technical and regulatory storm overflow delivery.

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. Strategy and Regulation team are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

We are looking to expand our hydraulic modelling function to enable us to support our AMP8 capital delivery programmes and beyond. The Modelling Manager will support our AMP8 Storm Overflow Alliance, as they deliver our largest ever environmental storm overflow programme, ensuring the timely delivery of key regulatory outputs. You will work alongside our existing modelling manager and team senior modellers and modellers.

You will lead, manage and develop a centre of excellence for modelling storm overflow investment activities in AMP8 and beyond. This is a key strategic role which offers the opportunity to technically support the delivering of our plans linked to the Storm Overflow Discharge Reduction plan (SODRP), the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) and support the Drainage and Wastewater Management Plan (DWMP).

You will have the opportunity to work with our Alliance, Asset Planning and Asset Delivery teams to assist in scheme development and provide technical assurance throughout the design phase. You will provide support and governance for Asset Delivery to ensure we deliver high quality and ambitious schemes which can be assured against our regulatory outputs. You will identify risks and opportunities and ensure the appropriate models are utilised for solution development.

You will manage the development of standards for model quality, modelling methodology and model audit procedure for the storm overflow Alliance and Asset Delivery activities and develop a modelling centre of excellence.

This is an exciting time to join the Drainage and Wastewater team and the water industry as we embark on our largest environmental programmes…