Operations & Maintenance Manager
Role: Operations & Maintenance Manager (Water Industry)
Salary: circa £55,000 to £65,000 per annum + up to 20% annual bonus
Location: West Midlands
Role Type: Permanent, Full-Time, 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday) plus 1 in 7 standby rota
Benefits: 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, birthday day off, generous annual incentive scheme at 20%, car allowance, Westfield healthcare plan for you and your dependents, excellent pension scheme, buy/sell annual leave, flexible working hours, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced maternity and paternity benefits, comprehensive health & wellbeing programme and lots more!
We are seeking individuals who are driven, resilient and water-industry proficient to allow you to support the day-to-day operations and maintenance of our clean and wastewater assets. Using your expertise in a similar role – perhaps gained with one of the SU's or perhaps within a smaller, private company – you'll be pivotal in delivering our operational objectives in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible. You'll use your wealth of experience in a similar role to minimise operational disruption, to seek and implement improvements and lead our critical O&M team across our large operational area. On occasion, you'll deputise for our team of seven Operations and Maintenance Managers to ensure we can continue to provide an excellent service to our valued customers. You will be key in ensuring that our assets across the MOD estate comply with regulatory and contractual obligations, as well as keeping our customers at the core of all we do. Our ideal candidate will be a proven people manager with stacks of water industry experience and a flair for continuous improvement. To give you a central point within your vast region, you'll ideally be based in the West Midlands and the surrounding areas but if you're a little outside, we'd still be thrilled to hear from you!
Role Responsibilities:
Assessing and improving current processes across our operations and maintenance team
Effective leadership and management of a field-based operations team, along with effective and timely budget management
Driving forward a strong health, safety, environment and wellbeing culture
Acting as an area Subject Matter Expert for Ancala Water Services and advising upon best practice solutions
Building strong, trusted relationships with the wider business such as Asset Management, Project Management and Commercial teams
Managing and developing relationships with external partners and representing AWS to key stakeholders where required
Essential Skill, Knowledge and Experience:
Technical water industry knowledge and experience gained within a water and wastewater operations and maintenance environment
Demonstrable understanding and experience of H&S practices to include managing contractors (IOSH qualified or equivalent)
Experienced with coordinating internal project work and supply chain project work in a reactive environment
Skilled and confident IT skills to include MS Office at an intermediate level, proficiency with mobile devices and experience with different software packages and databases
Experience of managing large budgets, along with strong financial and commercial acumen
Effective leadership of field-based teams whilst promoting a positive team and work culture
Ability to deliver operational requirements to meet challenging targets and deadlines
Confident and persuasive communicator with all hierarchical levels and able to explain technical information clearly
Skilled with developing and maintain strong relationships to establish reliability, credibility and expertise
About you:
Due to the nature of sites on which we operate, the successful candidate must:
Meet the security vetting requirements for the role which includes, but is not limited to, the successful candidate being a full-time resident of the UK for the past 5 years and an enhanced DBS Check
Possess a valid driving licence and be comfortable driving to different sites regularly across our operational areas. There will also be overnight stays on occasion