Salary - Competitive
Work Type - Hybrid
Job Location - Fazakerley Wastewater Treatment Works, Stonesbridge Lane, Fazakerley, Liverpool, L10 5HA
Role Type - Permanent
Employment Type - Full Time
Working Hours - 37.0 Hours per Week
United Utilities’ (UU) purpose is to deliver great water for a stronger, greener and healthier North West of England. We are committed to providing our services in a way that respects the environment, supports the economy, and benefits society.
We value diversity, inclusion and innovation in our workplace, and we foster a culture where our people can grow, excel, and be themselves.
We uphold our ethics, values and business model to fulfil our mission and, by setting clear goals and objectives, we create sustainable long-term value for our colleagues, customers and communities. Whether you work with a team that shares your vision or join a network of peers with similar interests, you will find a welcoming and supportive organisation to be part of.
We’ve got a lot to offer. You’ll be part of a thriving FTSE 100 company and will enjoy a range of core benefits that reflect your value and value contribution.
Benefits
- A generous annual leave package of 26 days, which increases to 30 days after four years of service (increases one day per year), in addition to 8 bank holidays
- A competitive pension scheme with up to 14% employer contribution, 21% combined, and life cover
- Car cash allowance - £5,000
- Up to 20% performance-related bonus scheme, as well as recognition awards for outstanding achievements
- A comprehensive healthcare plan through our company-funded scheme
- MyGymDiscounts - gym and wellness benefit that offers up to 25% off on gym memberships and digital fitness subscriptions
- Best Doctors
- Salary Finance
- Wealth at Work courses
- Deals and discounts
- EVolve Car Scheme
- Employee Assistance Plan
- Mental health first aiders
- ShareBuy
- MORE Choices flexible benefits
- Enhanced parental leave schemes
Job Purpose
You’ll lead the provision of multidisciplinary engineering services to support and advise the County Business Team on engineering matters in relation to the asset planning, development, operation, maintenance and optimisation of all assets for a specific county, optimising the cost and quality of treatment and its delivery whilst mitigating risk. With single point accountability to the County Business Leader (CBL) for the delivery of all required Engineering outcomes for the county. You’ll develop an understanding of the County Business Manager goals, plans and priorities, and translate these into a forward-looking portfolio plan of engineering activities and resource requirements that will meet overall delivery needs.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities
You’ll be responsible for the Time Cost Quality (TCQ) delivery of Engineering service provision within the relevant business county and accountable for ensuring that the CBL engineering competent (MEICA) teams receive appropriate technical training and that the competency framework is embraced and appropriately validated. You’ll also be responsible for:
- Day to day line management if appropriate and to lead and inspire the federated Engineering and operational teams to maintain and develop the organisational culture, values and the company reputation to ensure delivery of the UU vision.
- Working as part of the County Business leadership team in support of operational, planning, budgetary, reporting and performance improvements.
- Managing the relationships with the County Management team, providing a single point of contact for the provision of technical and engineering services and any requiring escalation to Engineering function.
- Working as part of the Engineering Management team in the day to day leadership of the county and delivery of the portfolio which will involve leading and sponsoring strategic initiatives.
- Leading county engineering service provision to support the continuous improvement of the effectiveness of the county asset base.
- Leading and co-ordinating engineering service provision and ensure appropriate and timely response to operational (safety/compliance/efficiency) needs, events or incidents. Identify and support initiatives to deliver efficiency, compliance and safety improvements whilst identifying best practice, lessons learned and continuous improvement to share with others.
- Identify and develop business opportunities to reduce operating costs and mitigate risks associated with health and safety, regulatory compliance and serviceability.
- Default Principal Designer in accordance with Construction Design Management regulations for all assets within County where not otherwise appointed.
- Monitoring and reporting on the business county engineering OPEX budget to enable expenditure to be optimised to delivery required business outcomes.
Technical Skills & Experience
To be successful in this role you’ll need to be a Charted Engineer and a member of a professional body or have equivalent experience and technical knowledge. You’ll also have significant experience in the water and wastewater sector including strong knowledge of the market place – technologies, emerging trends and latest developments, third party offerings, competitor strategies and current issues facing Engineering in the Water industry. You’ll also have:
- Significant leadership and people management skills and an ability to build, and develop high performing teams with a proven track record in multi-functional Engineering management.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to manage relationships across UU and externally, and influence key leaders at a senior level across the business.
- Resilience and ability to cope with pressure and demands of managing several multi-disciplinary engineering teams, concurrently within large programmes of capital works and supporting operational and maintenance activities.
- Commercially aware, risk, cost and quality focused, with sound knowledge of the wider business and regulatory environment to ensure optimisation of the whole life cost of asset ownership.
- Strong supply chain experience – ideally through the successful management of third party service providers or operating agreements with internal suppliers.
- Strong understanding of value engineering principles, analysis and reporting, risk analysis and risk and maintenance management techniques.
- Ability to develop system-based understanding of all assets within a geographical/asset county.
- Good experience of Design and Construction.
- A valid driving license is required
We rely on every employee to ensure our customers receive the best possible service, day in, day out. In return, we ensure that you will be well rewarded for your efforts, from an excellent salary through to development opportunities that will really kick start a thriving career here at UU.
