Assistant Business Continuity

4 weeks ago

Chelmsford, United Kingdom Northumbrian WaterEssex & Suffolk Water Full time

**Assistant Business Continuity & Emergency Planning Advisor**:

- Salary up to £37,000 (depending on experience)- Location Chelmsford**About the role**

**Assistant Business Continuity & Emergency Planning Advisor**

**Full Time**

**12 month Secondment/Fixed Term to cover maternity leave**

**Salary - up to £37,000 - depending on experience**

**Location - Chelmsford**

**About the role**

We’ve a great opportunity to become our Assistant Business Continuity & Emergency Planning Advisor to work within our business continuity team to ensure we have the appropriate arrangements in place to deal with difficult situations, so the business can continue to function with as little disruption as possible.

You will be part of a small team and play a key role in planning for emergencies, maintaining plans and procedures, and carrying out emergency exercises and ensuring the business meets it statutory and legal responsibilities under the Civil Contingencies Act (2004).

We’re looking for you to be delivering prompt and efficient responses to requests for support in Emergency Events and Incident, along with ongoing improvements in the robustness of the Company’s Business Continuity and Emergency plans and procedures.

You’ll be supporting the ongoing improvement in our external regulator annual submission for the Security and Emergency Measures Direction (SEMD), along with working with the Local Resilience Fora and other Local Authority Emergency Planning Units to create a good working relationship and ensure that we comply with our requirements under the Civil Contingencies Act.

We’re also looking for you to be working with the business to develop and carry out emergency exercises, to ensure corporate plans are tested.

**About you**

We’re looking for you to have proven experience in Business Continuity and/or Emergency Planning, this may include experience gained in Business Continuity or Emergency Planning departments for example.

You’ll have experience of working with different levels of stakeholders, both internally and externally, to support the business continuity / emergency planning matters and incidents, on a day to day basis, ranging from senior managers to operatives. You’ll ideally have proven knowledge of relevant legislation and the actions that must be taken by the Company during emergency incidents.

We’re looking for you to have great interpersonal skills including good communications skills, both verbal and written, along with great analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to find pragmatic solutions.

**About us**

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.

**Our values**

Our values describe our main principles, qualities and attributes. They are the guiding principles which define who we are, what we do and how we do it. They make us different from our competitors and guide our decisions and actions to drive us towards our vision.

Our values are:
Results Driven
- We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.

Ethical
- We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.

Customer Focused
- We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.

Innovative
- We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.

One Team
- We work together consistently, promoting co-operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.

**Colleague benefits**

We’re the great company we are because of you - our people. As our way of saying thanks, we offer you a wide range of benefits and discounts to take advantage of.

To find out more about our benefits, see our benefits booklet attached to this advert.

Eyecare

Discounted Medicals

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle2work

Buying & selling annual leave

Long service awards

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Computer
Loans

Award winning wellbeing site

NWG savings scheme

Company pension scheme

Pre-retirement workshops

Life assurance

Christmas savings club

Discounts & cashback offers

Qualification loan

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