Technical Specialist
Thames Water Utilites Posted on 2022-11-18
| Salary | £41,749 – £50,000 a year |
|---|---|
| Location | Cirencester GL7 |
| Type | Full-time |
Job Description
Who are we?
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes, keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open.
What is the purpose of this role?
Our overarching plan is to provide our customers with a continuous supply of safe, clean and palatable drinking water – by focusing on our five key priorities – our people, health & safety, water quality, risk & resilience, and efficiency.
As part of the West Thames Valley water production operations team you will work across water production sites in Swindon, Cotswolds and Oxfordshire. As this role covers a large geographical patch, a willingness to move around day to day is essential.
You will be a technically competent person in water processes and water production operations who manages significant risks all the way through the business process through to project completion. You will be representing the production team throughout this process, which requires scoping, design, delivery and commissioning. You will be experienced with water production assets and have knowledge of a wide range of assets from boreholes, water treatment works and storage reservoirs. Key to the role is collaboration and stakeholder engagement, both within and outside of Water Production
You will also be required to take part in an out of hours rota once fully trained.
What you will be doing:
- Technical Competence: Continuously develops and maintains operational expertise in an area/and or across certain asset types, and can work to tight timescales with multiple stakeholders to deliver projects on time and within scope.
- Capital Delivery Interface: Responsible for ensuring projects progress through the project stage gates, by effective liaison with the relevant teams (asset management, project definition, operations and capital delivery) to ensure that the projects are delivered to time and within scope. Supporting facilitation of all projects (either delivered directly or through the area operations teams) including permitting, outage management and team engagement
- Risk Management: owns the risk management process for an area, supporting the identification of risks (and optimisation opportunities) and then ensuring that the Asset Planning System (APS) is up-to-date, fully populated and provides a representative view of risk for the area operations team at all times; interfacing with Operational Excellence (OpEx) in Water Production and the Asset Management team for in-AMP planning and support for future AMP investment needs.
- Process Assurance: provide process assurance to the production teams through application of appropriate methods to test, review and support improvements to drinking water and environmental regulatory compliance; assisting with investigations of process non-compliances (waivers) or incidents, including disinfection incidents.
- Audits: provide technical support for DWSPAs, DWI and Hazrev to ensure actions are translated onto APS and resolved in a timely fashion.
- Incident Management: provide incident response in and out of hours including running emergency exercises and contributing to a learning environment through updating operating procedures where required.
- Commercial Acumen: Appreciation of Opex targets and budgets in the area and how project delivery impacts on financial risk. Identifies and leads changes to improve asset compliance and value for money.
- Health and Safety: supporting the maintenance of statutory compliance in the area i.e. permits and H&S inspections
We would also welcome applicants who are in the process of working towards the key competencies such as MOWP and IOSH – there is good capacity within the role to expand your skill set.
We’re looking for you to:
- You will have strong Process Competence – including Management of Water Production (MoWP) and Management of Disinfection and extensive practical operational experience.
- Good understanding of the risk management process and interactions with Asset Management.
- Technically competent in specific area operations
- Proven end to end project ownership
- Experience of reviewing complex RAMS and managing contractors is desirable
- Construction and/or asset management experience would be advantageous
- IOSH; knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and application.
- Strong IT skills (especially Excel) and an ability to interrogate data.
- Good communicator and ability to develop effective relationships. You will demonstrate confidence to present to and to influence Leaders in the organisation at all levels.
- Excellent organisational skills, a keen eye for detail.
- Financial and commercial acumen
- You will have a passion for driving positive behaviours throughout your region. You will be able to deliver against stretching operational targets and must be commercially astute.
- Ideally you will be degree qualified (preferably in an engineering / science discipline) however this is not essential.
- Due to the nature of the role, a full UK Driving licence is required.
What’s in it for you!
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service and a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.
Thames Water is a dynamic, rewarding and diverse place to work, with opportunities around every corner. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career and flexible working arrangements.
We’re also proud to embrace and promote diversity and believe that creating a workforce that reflects the communities we serve will help us to thrive. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process. Find out more about working at Thames Water
We deliver life »s essential service so our customers, communities and the environment can thrive. This means, when a crisis happens, we all rally round to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an Ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and a earn bit of extra money along the way.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date. This is so we can manage all the applications properly and give candidates a positive experience. Once closed, we can’t consider any further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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