Strategic Asset Planning Manager

14 hours ago


Reading, Reading, United Kingdom idibu Full time

Company Overview

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At Thames Water, our purpose is to deliver life's essential service, ensuring customers, communities, and the planet thrive. We aim to be a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and retaining talent from various backgrounds.

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About the Role

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We are seeking a Head of Capital Maintenance to lead our asset management efforts, developing 5-year plans to maintain and improve our asset base. This role involves working closely with Operations and Strategic Planning & Engineering teams to ensure alignment of plans, cost, and outcomes. As a key member of our team, you will drive cultural change in the regional planning function, building capability and capacity to better understand infrastructure while focusing on planning and producing results-driven plans.

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Key Responsibilities

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  • Develop dynamic in-AMP asset plans at a systems/catchments/site level, clearly explainable to stakeholders and third-parties externally.\
  • Accountable for developing capital maintenance programs for planned interventions across critical asset cohorts and agreeing on prioritization of capital maintenance spend in-AMP with Operations.\
  • Drive cultural change in the regional planning function – building capability and capacity to better understand the infrastructure but remain focused on the primary goal of planning and producing plans to drive results.\
  • Work with the new Sponsorship function, build intervention programs that deliver performance and efficiency outcomes to support operational business plans.\
  • Support development of future price reviews through identification of asset risks, a key input for Heads of Strategy.\
  • Understand holistic asset risk position across the asset base, ensuring risk mitigation options are in place and aligned with organisational risk tolerance, including risks to performance, H&S resilience, and asset health.\
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Requirements

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  • An established leader, able to create and deliver a clear vision for others to follow and drive the required change to deliver business outcomes.\
  • Operated at a senior level within operations or asset management, ideally within the utilities sector.\
  • Possess excellent project management skills, with the ability to multitask and work flexibly to manage conflicting priorities.\
  • Good commercial/financial skills within a multi-stakeholder and regulated environment.\
  • A good understanding of Botex, what drives operational performance, and regulatory/statutory frameworks under which we operate is desirable.\
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Benefits

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  • Competitive salary (£60,000 - £80,000 per annum).\
  • Annual Leave -26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service (plus bank holidays).\
  • Annual Bonus.\
  • Private Medical Health Care.\
  • Contributory pension – Defined Contribution – Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.\
  • Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.\
  • Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.\


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