About the role

Asset Planner

Full Time

Permanent

Salary - up to £48,169 (depending on experience)

Location - Leat House, Washington/home working blend

We're open to discussing flexible working

About the role

We have a fantastic opportunity to join the Wastewater Tactical Planning team at an exciting time as we progress into our ambitious Asset Management Programme 8 (AMP8).

This role will see you report to the Wastewater Asset Manager acting as the central point of contact for any issues which are identified in our wastewater treatment or wastewater network assets.

This means you will partner with our operations teams and other key stakeholders to interpret the risk and benefits of the identified issues, developing scopes for cost estimate requests and progressing them through our investment optimisation tool, Copperleaf.

You will be responsible for developing project briefs that outline the asset need, root cause, service, and performance risk. In addition, you will take responsibility for cost benefit assessments to develop recommendations that maximises value.

Therefore, a focus of this role is using your communication skills to inform stakeholders appropriately. This includes asking questions to develop your own knowledge and understanding which will allow you to challenge in a positive manner.

Our team of Asset Planners consistently manage changing priorities due to the fast-paced environment they work in.

About you

We're looking for the successful candidate to have proven experience of working with a range of stakeholders with strong communication and influencing skills. The ability to build good working relationships within your own team, with departments across the business and with supply partners is essential.

You'll be comfortable interpreting a wide range of information and have excellent analytical skills which you have used to interpret complex data and produce accurate written reports. Therefore, experience of using Excel and Word is essential.

You will have a flexible approach to planning and managing your time effectively to meet the needs of the team owing to the changing priorities. This means you will use your initiative to challenge, ensuring that our activities and plans deliver maximum value for the business.

It would be beneficial for you to have asset management experience or qualification and knowledge of wastewater network or treatment processes. Knowledge of an engineering discipline would be beneficial. However, this isn't essential as we provide training and support to help build your knowledge.

We are keen to hear how you can join our team and make a positive difference.

This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you'll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test.

Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date.

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked

Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation. We have our colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks too.

About us

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.

Our values

Our values describe our main principles, qualities and attributes. They are the guiding principles which define who we are, what we do and how we do it. They make us different from our competitors and guide our decisions and actions to drive us towards our vision.

Our values are:

Results Driven

We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.

Ethical

We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.

Customer Focused

We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.

Innovative

We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.

One Team

We work together consistently, promoting co-operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.

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Colleague benefits

We're the great company we are because of you - our people. As our way of saying thanks, we offer you a wide range of benefits and discounts to take advantage of.

To find out more about our benefits, see our benefits booklet attached to this advert.

Eyecare

Discounted Medicals

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle2work

Buying & selling annual leave

Long service awards

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Computer
Loans

Award winning wellbeing site

NWG savings scheme

Company pension scheme

Pre-retirement workshops

Life assurance

Christmas savings club

Discounts & cashback offers

Qualification loan