Hub Technical Officer

2 months ago


Eccles, United Kingdom United Utilities Full time

You'll be responsible for all scientific and practical technical input to achieve regulatory, financial, customer and key business performance targets. Ensuring all assets are managed to optimal efficiency within agreed budgetary targets whilst meeting all regulatory compliance and Customer Service standards. To include but not limited to UWWTD, PPC, UV, WML, WRA, Flow, HACCP, Self-Reporting.

**Job Accountabilities**:
You'll be responsible for analysing and interpreting operational performance information, proactively identifying and implementing corrective actions within Health and Safety requirements; and escalating regulatory or performance risks to the Production Manager as appropriate. You'll also:

- Create, develop, implement and report action plans to ensure all wastewater process activities comply with legislation and regulatory obligations whilst achieving internal Company performance targets.
- Work with a team of Field Technical Officers, Process Controllers and Process Operators to deliver safe, efficient and compliant performance.
- Provide scientific, technical and practical direction required for the short and medium term operation of wastewater treatment assets.
- Assess and review workforce scheduling and other enhancement options in order to recommend corrective action
- Identify operational problems and existing asset needs relating to compliance, efficiency, asset availability, Health and Safety and optimisation. Assess and review enhancement options in order to recommend corrective action.
- Analyse and explain operational performance data and review performance reports with the Production Manager.
- Be proactively involved with action planning to ensure compliance and optimise the operation and maintenance of treatment assets.
- Contribute to the provision of district information for regulatory returns and EA correspondence.
- Take a lead role in ensuring quality assurance documents are developed and maintained in alignment with business requirements
- Monitor the alarm management system in relation to wastewater asset performance ensuring best practice is implemented.
- Identify and deliver optimisation opportunities working collaboratively with the Area Engineering Manager to ensure the operation of wastewater treatment assets is fully optimised.
- Contribute to the development of suitable risk registers in alignment with the Wholesale Risk and Asset Planning to identify risks and issues, identify and monitor strategic performance requirements, and prioritise risks and issues for investment or operational management
- Support the technical development of Process Controllers and Operators to continually drive forward improved wastewater technical knowledge and best practice at a local level
- Support Process Controllers and Operators to develop strong technical capability and competence to deliver improved regulatory and business performance of all assets at a local level
- Understand how new wastewater assets operate and support the training and development of the Process Controllers and Process Operators in all aspects of process optimisation and best practice
- Undertake specific roles, projects or initiatives requiring technical input as directed by the Production Manager or Area Production Manager, working with a combination of small, medium and large wastewater treatment works with a wide range of processes and asset types.

**Knowledge and Skills**:
To be considered for this role you'll be able to demonstrate a wide range of treatment technical skills to effectively monitor and control assets across a district. You'll have excellent presentation, written and oral communication skills combined with effective team working to successfully influence key stakeholders. You'll also have:

- Well-developed IT, numerical, analytical and problem solving skills to deliver operational and financial performance targets.
- An excellent knowledge and practical experience of wastewater treatment processes and best operational practice.
- Technical knowledge of wastewater treatment assets and the associated operational, and maintenance requirements is essential to ensure delivery of lowest whole life cost solutions.
- Ability to demonstrate practical experience working in wastewater treatment operations and maintenance and experience of delivering and maintaining performance improvement
- Understanding and implementation of future regulatory requirements within wastewater operations
- Wastewater technical knowledge, confident with teams, prepared to lead the process team, including covering Comm Cells.
- Must be competent on computer systems, STS, SCADA, DCS, & Various other.
- Must also have proven influencing skills.

**Additional Information**:** We need fantastic people to enable us to deliver a great service to the public. We are committed to reaching and recruiting from every community and then supporting employees to achieve their full potential ensuring they feel valued and included,



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