Capital Liaison Lead

Severn Trent; Wychavon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle

Annual bonus

Pension scheme

Sharesave

Training Academy

EV scheme

Volunteer days

Holiday entitlement

Job summary

Severn Trent is seeking a Capital Liaison Lead to head a technical team at Strensham, reporting to the Water Treatment Leader. You will guide design and on-site decisions for CAPEX programmes and coordinate with Capital Delivery to meet schedules and budgets.

The role requires strong leadership, stakeholder influence, and hands-on engagement with operations to optimise TOTEX and asset performance across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Ability to articulate complex information to non-technical audiences both verbally and in writing.
• Experience with water treatment processes and operational improvement activities.
• Familiarity with operational risk management and delivering significant risk controls.
• Understanding of asset classes in water treatment and related risks and benefits.
• Experience in managing contractors and reviewing risk assessments/method statements.
• Project management experience with budgets, investment decisions, and on-time delivery.
• Strong influencing skills with frontline and senior stakeholders.
• Leadership and people management in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Empathy for front-line operations and pragmatic problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Lead a technical team and coordinate across Capital Delivery and Water Treatment.
• Provide input to design to ensure TOTEX delivery aligns with asset operation.
• Develop efficient, on-ground TOTEX solutions with design teams.
• Coordinate an intervention plan taking grid interdependencies into account.
• Engage Ops teams to support scheme delivery and keep projects on track.
• Regularly update on progress, risks, and OPEX impact with operations.
• Collaborate with Capital Delivery to solve problems and remove obstacles.
• Step in to recover projects that start to diverge from plan.

Skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Water treatment

Job description

Are you looking for a new career and love to solve problems? We have an exciting new opportunity as a Capital Liaison Lead based at Strensham. Reporting to the Water Treatment Leader, the Capital Liaison Lead is responsible for leading a team of experts and ensuring that the team support Capital Delivery and Water Treatment in the delivery of the capital schemes. This role will be accountable leading in Capital Liaison Team to provide key operational design and installation decisions - relating to plant OPEX, REOC, design, layout, access, lifting and maintenance that arise during both the feasibility and design phase of projects. The individual will be required to liaise and consult with key stakeholders within Water Treatment & Capital Delivery to facilitate access to process plant and strategic assets as required to ensure efficient delivery of the capital projects to an agreed programme. There is also a requirement to support operations in key activity on the ground. The successful candidate will have experience of managing, motivating, and leading a technical team and will be able to demonstrate stakeholder management & influencing capabilities at all levels of a business. Your key accountabilities will be:

Key Accountabilities

• Provide (or source) operational experience and knowledge to support the delivery of the capital program.
• Provide input into the design process to ensure that asset operation, maintenance and TOTEX are delivered consistently across the capital programme.
• Support the Capital Delivery design teams to develop efficient (TOTEX) solutions that are practicable and effective on the ground.
• Lead the coordination of a prioritised intervention plan, ensuring that the interdependencies with the grid for all 6 sites are taken into account.
• Actively engage with Ops team, and facilitate the efficient delivery of all schemes.
• Provide regular engagement with the operational teams on delivery of the capital programme including, progress updates, escalation items, key risks, benefits and OPEX impact.
• Work closely with the Capital Delivery team to problem solve and unlock any problems/obstacles proactively.
• Intervene when projects start to go off track and pull together a rapid recovery plan.

The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity, and a caring attitude we want to talk to you too.

Required Qualifications

• The ability to articulate complex information to those who may have basic understanding of treatment non- infrastructure through the use of verbal and written communication.
• Previous experience in water treatment processes and operational improvement activities.
• Familiarity with operational risk management principles and process with experience of managing significant risk.
• An understanding of a specific asset class and its components (such as groundwater treatment works, surface water treatment works and raw water abstraction) and their associated risks, impacts and benefits.
• Previous experience in managing contractors and reviewing risk assessments and method statements.
• Project Management experience with responsibility for project budgets, informing investment decision making and evidence of delivering to time, cost and quality.
• Strong influencing skills both at senior level and front-line operations. Must be able to credibly advise, guide and constructively challenge when required.
• Leadership and people management capability. Used to managing teams and working in an environment with multiple stakeholders.
• An understanding and empathy for the challenges of front-line operations.
• Pragmatic and collaborative approach to problem solving.

Hello, we're Severn Trent and we think water is wonderful. Oh, we're pretty keen on people too.

Company Culture

24 hours a day, 365 days a year we serve 4.8 million households and business across the heart of the UK. Each cuppa drank and every toilet flushed is only possible because of the 6,500 brilliant team members working across our patch.

Working here isn't just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent, and we'll reward you for it too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we'll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live. With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you'll get being part of the Seven Trent family:

Benefits

• Salary starting from £50,000
• 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
• Company vehicle/car allowance (of £400 per month)
• Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250 per annum based on company performance)
• Leading pension scheme - we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
• Sharesave - the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
• Dedicated training and development with our 'Academy'
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
• Family friendly policies
• Two volunteering days per year