Capital Liaison Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Salary from £50,000

Company vehicle/allowance

Annual bonus up to £2,250

Pension scheme (double contribution)

Job summary

Severn Trent Water is seeking a Capital Liaison Lead based at Strensham to lead a technical team and coordinate with Water Treatment and Capital Delivery. You will oversee design input, asset operation considerations, and on-site delivery to achieve the capital programme on schedule.

The role requires strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, and proven project management with complex risk control. A collaborative, pragmatic approach to problem solving is essential for this frontline

Qualifications

• Experience leading a technical team with stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in water treatment processes and operational improvements.
• Strong risk management and ability to manage significant risk.
• Project management with budgets and delivery to time, cost and quality.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational experience to support delivery of the capital program.
• Provide input into the design process to ensure 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 interdependencies with the grid for all sites are considered.
• Actively engage with Ops and facilitate the efficient delivery of all schemes.
• Provide regular engagement with operational teams on delivery of the capital programme including updates, risks and OPEX impact.
• Work closely with Capital Delivery to problem solve and recover when needed.
• Intervene when projects go off track and pull together a rapid recovery plan.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Project management

Communication

Influencing

People management

Job description

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Salary (£): From £50,000 dependant on experience

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

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.

We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality. We know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our customers and the communities where they live.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

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:

• 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.

WHAT WE’R LOOKING FOR

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.

In order to succeed in this role, it is expected that you will have:

• 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.

HOW WE’LL REWARD AND CARE FOR YOU

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:

• 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

LET’S GO

We can’t wait to hear from you.