Assistant Manager- Kent

TN United Kingdom; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a motivated Assistant Manager for their Asset Maintenance & Standards team. This role involves overseeing operational compliance, managing team performance, and ensuring adherence to health and safety regulations. With a focus on continuous improvement, you will work closely with internal teams to deliver high standards in wastewater services. If you have a strong technical background and a passion for team leadership, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a vital sector.

Qualifications

• Strong technical and operational background in a regulated environment.
• Experience with ISO14001 and ISO9001 compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage team performance and ensure compliance with health and safety standards.
• Conduct audits and assessments to mitigate risks and improve operations.

Skills

Health and Safety Management

Team Management

Operational Performance Monitoring

Risk Assessment

Environmental Compliance

Education

Background in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Experience in Wastewater Treatment (desirable)

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Job Title:Assistant Manager- Asset Maintenance & Standards- Kent

Base location: Chatham, Kent- Travelling between sites required therefore driving licence essential

Work type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
S alary : From £32,900 per annum

Do you have a background working within an electrical or mechanical environment looking for opportunity to develop into a team management role?

If so, read further!

We are currently recruiting for an Assistant Manager within our Wastewater function to support our Asset Maintenance and Standards operations. You will be primarily responsible and accountable for the completion of updating Southern Water’s internal systems and tracking of works, training records, hazards and store audits, attending compliance meetings with other departments, inputting pollution reports to ensure our asset maintenance standards are maintained effectively.

You will managing the team in the absence of the Field Performance Managers as you will deputise for leave and delegated requirements, meeting performance continuity for an operational area and role succession. Working closely within our internal teams, you will be liaising with our technical planning and scheduling team and using your expertise to plan in complex works safely and resolve long-standing and reactive issues, planning activities to deliver repairs, inspections and maintenance on treatment works and the networks.

As a developing leader, you will work with the team to support high standards of employee engagement and consultation with internal stakeholders. Proactively monitoring and escalating on performance shortfalls and implementing strategic improvement initiatives through advice and coaching is essential for this role.

To give you our background, we provide wastewater services to 4.6 million customers. Our 39,900km of sewers and 3,476 pumping stations collect wastewater from our customers. Each day 1,371 million litres of wastewater is received at our 367 treatment works.

Therefore, you will demonstrate a strong technical and operational background, a focus on Health and Safety risk and Environmental impact, together with a collaborative approach and clear drive for continuous improvement by undertaking site audits to ensure compliance with asset maintenance expectations, asset/plant standards, site cleanliness and performance.

Your responsibilities also includes:

•To keep an overview of performance against ISO14001 and ISO9001 standards within an operational area to ensure compliance

•Assesses and Evaluates Risks to Health, Safety, Security, Wellbeing, and Environmental Management conditions within an operational area

•Responsible for the completion of statutory Health, Safety and Environmental audits, (including SSI, EMS)

•Management and ownership to completion of all identified Hazards within an operational area, and administration of Hazard Database

•Responsible for mitigating and progressing to solution HSSW Hazards identified

•Ensuring specific issues identified by the team are reported to the FPM at required priority as per escalation guidelines

•Assisting the team to meet performance targets through coaching and mentoring

•Supporting as required where performance improvement needs within the team are identified.

•Expected to build relationships across Southern Water to ensure that business units work in partnership to deliver the company’s strategic goals

A curious individual with passion to develop into team management, you will have a good understanding of electrical and mechanical trades within a regulated environment such as Regulatory and Legal Environmental policy, waste management licensing, and the Health & Safety at Work act.

It will be highly desirable for you to have a background working within Wastewater treatment however we welcome applicant who has strong operational background, with clear track record of delivering to health, safety, and environmental targets.

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Created on 08/05/2025 by TN United Kingdom