Head of Waste Water Process

2 months ago


Bradford, United Kingdom Yorkshire Water Full time

**Salary and benefits**:Up to £120,000 per annum, dependant on experience, company car lease/cash allowance scheme, attractive annual bonus (Executive Incentive Plan) + private healthcare (for self and/or partner) + attractive pension (Up to 10% company contribution) + 25 days leave plus bank holidays.

**Location**: Regionally based, with a mix of home working and working from one of our regional offices.

**Working Hours**: 37 hours per week Monday to Friday, expectation to participate in a standby rota

We have a fantastic opportunity to be our **Head of Wastewater Operations (Treatment) **for someone who has a passion for Operations & Maintenance and leading sustainable improvements to the water environment in large, complex operational teams. You will drive the performance of Yorkshire Water’s most expansive assets and their associated environmental interactions. With a strong track record of running high performing teams to deliver brilliant environmental and Health and Safety performance at a cost Yorkshire folk are prepared to pay, you will utilise the most appropriate mix of in-house and outsourced skills to deliver the best possible outcomes for Yorkshire.

**Leading**:

- **Our people**: 200 direct and indirect reports, comprising of two Regional Treatment teams who provide the O&M and optimisation input to our 600 WwTW’s to safely receive, treat and recycle our regions wastewater.
- The regional Pumping team who provides the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) and optimisation input to our 2,300 SPS’s to safely receive and transfer our regions wastewater
- The **continuous improvement of our operations**, working with our central, dedicated function that is tasked with making our operations even more efficient and effective

**What will the role involve?**

This role will have financial accountability for £30 million operating budget and £200 million capital expenditure, leading the transformation for the function, enabling modernisation of ways of working and reducing the cost of failure through implementation of Dynamic Asset Maintenance, adapting to new environmental drivers and embracing our operational asset management system (ERP).

**Right for the Environment**
- Work with the Head of Asset Management to operationalise great environmental performance, eliminating pollution incidents from our telemetered assets to regain four-star EPA and maximising the environmental benefit from the department
- Contributes to our net zero aspirations, plans for energy efficiency, EV transition and reducing process emissions from our operations
- Design and implement fit for purpose processes that are simpler for colleagues, better for the environment and provide greater value for customers
- Work with our delivery partners to deliver better environmental outcomes and making operations simpler and easier for colleagues
- Ensure Yorkshire Water has an active role in industry-wide and regulatory discussions as well as consultation groups related to the development of policy
- Create business cases, business plans and board materials when required, actively participating in the Senior Leader community
- Represent the business externally in a professional and brand appropriate manner

**Creating a high performing team**
- Create a truly inclusive, engaged and empowering environment to get the best out of our colleagues, driving top people engagement scores and making our working environment a great place
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement, with the right levels of coaching, training, and support for all colleagues
- Create and lead a high performing team with clear vision, objectives, and accountabilities
- Effectively advocate and role model our Yorkshire Water values and behaviours
- Be responsible for adhering to standards, policy, process, and systems and committing to making them simpler and more effective

**Knowledge and Skills Required**

**Essential**:
You will have a proven track record of leading teams in a regulated environment. You can motivate, inspire and have shown how you can deliver better outcomes for customers and/or the environment at a lower cost. You have experienced professional adversity in the past and like our assets are resilient to operational leadership challenges. Finally, you can think strategically, get on with colleagues but importantly make tomorrow better than yesterday.

**You will also**:

- Have shown that nothing is more important than health, safety, and the environment for colleagues and customers
- Have significant experience of leading or working with cross functional, service driven, O&M operations
- Have created high performing, engaged and capable teams
- Possess strong presentational, commercial, continuous improvement and operational experience capabilities
- Has implemented efficiency and effectiveness improvements across departments, this is a business that needs to deliver better outcomes at a lower cost

**Desirable**:

- Experience of Utiliti



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