Asset Engineer

Closing Date

Job Title: Asset Engineer
Location: Falmer (hybrid working model - 2 days a week in office/site)

Salary: starting from £45,000 depending on experience

Job Summary:

We're offering an exciting opportunity to become part of Southern Water's Water Asset Management team in a newly created Asset Engineer role. This position is pivotal to shaping our 25-year water investment programmes, providing vital system engineering support to deliver our strategic objectives and regulatory commitments.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct or review root cause analysis to ensure effective solutions are developed to asset risk and performance issues.
• Identify remedial action associated with asset performance or condition to ensure optimum performance, prompt resolution of issues, minimal disruption to plant functioning and legal and regulatory compliance
• Conduct cost benefit analysis on intervention options to determine the best value solution. Scope the solutions, expected benefits and the method and timescale for realisation, including value appraisals (cost benefit analysis)
• Develop interventions and solutions to address identified prioritised risks through appropriate optioneering, to identify the most cost beneficial interventions at project and programme level.  Where an approved intervention requires operational activity, work closely with the operational and maintenance teams to support the schedule of the intervention and measurement of benefits.
• Recommend evidence-based interventions taking account of risk, performance, criticality and cost to develop affordable solutions to priority problems and to deliver our AMP investment plans.
• Assess the integration of solutions with the medium-term plan and provide advice to the Programme Planning Manager for prioritisation.
• Undertake feedback on solution effectiveness and benefits realisation and utilise this to inform asset strategy and planning decisions
• To identify the need for and coordinate more specialist support where appropriate, such as network modelling, solution design, water quality analysis.
• Support the Asset Planning teams in the development of integrated system plans at asset group, catchment and functional level to deliver targeted benefits.
• For approved capital delivery interventions, alongside a credible reference solution complete a handover of all necessary documentation to the relevant teams and provide support during the design process to ensure the identified benefits remain viable.

Qualifications:

• Degree, ideally in an engineering or science discipline or equivalent level of experience in the water industry
• A full driving licence is required
• Professional accreditation (for example, Member of Institute of Asset Management, Member of Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management), or equivalent levels of experience

Technical:

• Competent IT skills, including MS Office/SAP/GIS
• Knowledge of asset planning tools, including scenario planning and deterioration modelling
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills

Experience:

• Substantial post qualification experience in an engineering design environment
• Extensive experience of feasibility, design and construction
• Experience in supervising staff, and contractors
• Experience in asset management functions, ideally also within project delivery and / or operations roles
• Experience in the application of innovative approaches to problem solving
• Commercial acumen and project costing experience
• Understanding and appreciation of risk within a highly regulated environment

Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between home and office and site visits.

• Company and performance-related bonus

• Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution

• Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary

• Health benefits through a Cash Plan

• Two paid community volunteering days a year

• 25 days annual holiday

• Occupational health service

• Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences

• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications

• We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options