Digital Engineering, Sustainability & Emerging Tech Lead

SevernTrentLife; Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading UK water company as the Digital Engineering, Sustainability & Emerging Tech Lead. Be a key player in driving innovation and enhancing operational efficiencies, working with a talented team to adopt cutting-edge technologies while overseeing significant business improvement projects.

Benefits

31 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual bonus scheme up to 20%

Car allowance

Private medical insurance

Leading pension scheme

Sharesave options

Electric vehicle scheme

Family friendly policies

Two volunteering days per year

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex business improvement projects.
• Background in asset-intensive industries is beneficial.
• Proven ability to deliver financial and operational success.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of about 50 and manage 6-8 direct reports.
• Lead the CCS digitisation strategy and implement innovations.
• Challenge existing processes to improve efficiencies and performance.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Job description

Join Severn Trent’s Capital Team as a Digital Engineering, Sustainability & Emerging Tech Lead

What do you get when you combine an award-winning, innovative water company with over 300 dedicated team members? Severn Trent’s Capital Design team!

Our ambitious five-year programme, encompassing over 5,000 innovative projects, is designed to tackle the growing challenges of delivering exceptional water and waste services. We are committed to addressing issues such as flooding and river health, ensuring the best outcomes for our customers and the environment. With our dedicated in-house design team, we are poised to achieve outstanding results and make a significant impact.

About the Role:

We have an exciting new opportunity as the Digital Engineering, Sustainability & Emerging Tech Lead . In this role, you’ll drive the strategy for capital innovation activities to improve ways of working, systems and processes, harnessing the best of Artificial Intelligence and seeking to rapidly adopt best practice internally and externally. You’ll effectively review, assess, trial, and implement or reject innovations and then drive these to execution, working alongside the design, commercial and delivery teams in Capital & Commercial Services. We’re always thinking outside the box and we’re looking for an individual to elevate Severn Trent’s capability and implement our strategies faster and better than ever before.

Location: This role can be based at any of our capital hubs: Shrewsbury, Derby, or Coventry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Head of Capital Design, you’ll have 6-8 direct reports and oversee a team of approximately 50 people with additional services provided by specialist consultancies.
• Provide inspirational leadership to develop and continuously improve effective capability improvements.
• Continually challenge ways of working across the whole of CCS, identifying new efficiencies and innovative solutions and drive these though rapid development and rollout.
• Lead the strategic development, implementation and execution of the CCS digitisation strategy, continually adapting and refining the approach as required.
• Support, mentor, and develop the team in building a culture of high performance.
• Challenge ways of working and seek out innovative solutions through the supply chain and external organisations.

What You’ll Bring to the Role:

• Experience of successfully managing the development and implementation of complex, multi-disciplinary business improvement projects.

• A track record operating in an asset intensive industry where programme activity, innovation and process are a core feature of the business.
• Excellent stakeholder and client relationship management skills.
• A positive, caring attitude and a commitment to making a difference.
• A proven ability to deliver strong financial and operational success.

Join us in driving forward our innovation. We do more because we care. Is that you?

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

It’s not just a job you’ll get here, you’ll get a career too. We have a range of benefits that reward and recognise great work and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. Here’s some of our favourites:

• 31 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/sell up to 5 additional days per year)
• Annual bonus scheme (of up to 20% of base salary per annum based on company performance)
• Car allowance of £5,208 paid in monthly instalments
• Private medical insurance for you and your family
• 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
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
• Family friendly policies
• Two volunteering days per year

WHAT’S NEXT

We can’t wait to hear from you.

Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare. If you’re not too sure about what you need to do, or have a question about the role before applying, please do reach out to our amazing team of recruiters [e-mail].

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