Rainwater Management Technical Principal

4 months ago


Warrington, United Kingdom United Utilities Full time

We have an exciting opportunity for a senior leader to provide senior leadership of Rainwater Management design, technical and specialist related drainage activities at United Utilities. You'll inspire, motivate and influence technical change within the business; driving Rainwater Management solutions into our ways of working, leveraging multiple benefits for the North West and delivering best value for operations and our customers. You'll be representing and acting on behalf of UU on technical related activity for a defined programme including capital projects, operational support and strategic studies; including technical leadership for our WINEP and Better Rivers programmes. Strategic resource planning for all technical related resources across the business (internal & external), including line management for all technical staff and raising the profile of United Utilities and Rainwater Management solutions across the water industry and other sectors will be an integral part of the role.

**Job Accountabilities**:
You'll be responsible to lead a team of specialist design & technical resources (internal and external resources) and have accountability for technical decision-making in their area of responsibility as well as providing design & technical expertise for Rainwater Management Solutions, including all Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and Nature Based Solutions (NBS), where components can include, but are not limited to; Swales, Rills, Soakaways, Bio-retention systems, Green Roofs, Raingardens, Tree Pits, Ponds and Wetlands, Basins, Infiltration Trenches, Filter Drains, Permeable Paving, Rainwater Harvesting, Reed Beds and Surface Water Separation. You'll also be responsible for:

- Through design, maximise the multiple environmental, social and economic benefits to United Utilities and our partners in the North West, including supporting a Natural Capital approach
- Leading on the technical delivery and design management of projects and in-service support within budget and programme to all internal clients
- Driving UU to be more innovative and efficient in the delivery of our Rainwater Management interventions, exploring ways to speed up delivery and make solutions more affordable
- Being point of technical escalation to drive timely decisions to enable the Project Teams to proceed.
- Providing strategic leadership to many multi-disciplinary Rainwater Management technical teams; managing teams capable of investigating and designing a wide number of interventions that use a combination of multi-functional drainage components that collect, infiltrate, convey, store, treat and control runoff prior to discharge.
- Exploring additional ways that managing rainwater better across the system e.g. Rainwater Harvesting to reduce water consumption, Reed Beds to help water quality and Surface water separation to reduce flooding/spills
- Providing leadership in strategic resource-planning activities
- Maintaining an active dialogue with internal stakeholders and external stakeholders, responding to feedback appropriately, to maximise internal and external customer satisfaction
- Ensuring streamlined processes with clear roles and responsibilities across the Project Delivery System
- Promoting technical leadership, excellence and governance to ensure technical consistency across the busines
- Developing and delivering Rainwater Management transformation related activitie
- Managing relationships and contracts with Design Partners and Delivery Partner
- Leading the design and implementation of processes and policies resulting from changes in legislatio
- Owning asset standards, including relating to technical software and hardware

**Knowledge and Skills**:
To be considered for this role you'll need to be a Chartered professional e.g. C.WEM (Chartered Water and Environmental Manager) or equivalent and hold a degree or equivalent qualification in an environmental or relevant technical discipline. You'll also have:

- Experience in delivering capital and strategic projects and providing technical expertise, design management and guidance
- Significant passion to deliver Rainwater Management and green/blue solutions
- Practical and theoretical knowledge of Rainwater Management interventions, including Sustainable drainage expertise (SuDS) & Nature Based Solutions (NBS), but also a good understanding of Drainage, Flood Risk and the Water Industry in general.
- Technical expertise and experience in the planning aspects of Rainwater Management solutions; including an understanding of UK and International technical policy, strategy, standards etc.
- Experience in leading successful multi-disciplinary resources in a highly technical and commercial environment; demonstrating excellent planning and organisational skills to facilitate management of own workload, and workload of direct and indirect teams to deliver to deadlines and quality expectations
- Knowledge of the multi-disciplinary roles and activities required t



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