Process Science Manager

Severn Trent Plc; East Midlands; In loco; GBP 70.000 - 100.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Company vehicle/car allowance

Annual bonus scheme

Leading pension scheme

Sharesave

Discount with Busy Bees Nurseries

Dedicated training and development

Electric vehicle scheme

Family friendly policies

Two paid volunteering days per year

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Descrizione del lavoro

Severn Trent Plc in the Midlands is seeking a Process Science Manager to lead the Water Quality Improvement Team. You will oversee a group of Water Treatment experts, guiding process decisions, improving performance, and managing risk across surface water treatment works.

The role focuses on developing your team, driving trend analysis, and delivering operational efficiencies while protecting water quality for customers.

Competenze

• Experience leading a technical team and driving results.
• Excellent communication skills to engage and influence stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritise workload and coordinate across multiple teams.

Mansioni

• Prioritise workload and coordinate across multiple teams to balance risk.
• Assist in complex water quality risk assessments for major sites.
• Motivate the team to deliver effective process decisions daily.
• Proactively analyse trends to maintain water quality for customers.
• Support future site improvements with asset management teams.

Conoscenze

Strategic leadership

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Team leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Descrizione del lavoro

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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.

If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you. There really is something for everyone here.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Our Water Quality Improvement Team have an opportunity for you to join as one of our Process Science Managers.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for managing the process team who provide expert scientific process advice to the surface water treatment works we have in the company, handling both day to day trend improvements and reacting to site performance. You will manage this team of experts and ensure that we drive efficient process performance whilst managing the Water Quality risk and improving our Compliance Risk Index score.

This role is to lead the team, guiding them in their development and knowledge sharing to ensure that the process decisions on site are driven by process risk and the optimised operation of our surface Water Treatment Works. This is a challenging role offering great variety of work leading this team and driving to maintain and improve our company performance. As a lead of the Water Treatment Process team you will day to day manage a team of Water Treatment experts, providing leadership and management to enable to the day-to-day technical advice to our largest and critical surface water treatment works and associated assets.

As part of this role, you will be ensuring that process issues at these works are advised upon to remedy any process performance issues plus proactively look at trend analysis for ensuring we continue to provide the right quality of water to our customers. This lead role ensures the optimisation of drinking water treatment processes for both quality and cost, by resource managing the team to be reviewing performance of the Water Treatment Works, participating in water quality improvement initiatives, identifying and supporting the delivery of operational efficiencies (chemical, energy) and disseminating best practice within the team and closely associated operational teams.

Some of your other key accountabilities will include:

• Prioritise workload and work across multiple teams to ensure that the balanced approach to risk management.
• Assist in complex water quality risk assessments for our biggest water treatment sites to ensure safe water production all year round.
• Motivate the team in delivering an effective process decision every day.
• proactively look at trend analysis for ensuring we continue to provide the right quality of water to our customers.
• Help ensure that future site improvements needing investment are targeted by working closely with other lead roles within the asset Management structure.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We’re seeking our new team lead to be comfortable at operating at a strategic level, with proven experience of setting targets, monitoring progress, and driving results.

You’ll have excellent communication skills, with an ability to engage and influence decision making with key stakeholders. To be successful as a leader of a technical team you need to have experience on how to lead and inspire a hard-working, highly technical team.

You need to be a highly motivated individual that can work independently, have the ability to prioritise workload and work across multiple teams to ensure that the balanced approach to risk management is maintained across our water treatment works.

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.

We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We want people who show up and get involved. Those who are ready to be part of something bigger and who want to make a difference because they care.Is that you?

HOW WE’LL REWARD AND CARE FOR YOU

It's not just a job; it's a career. We offer benefits that reward great work and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. Plus, you'll contribute to the environment and community too. With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Seven Trent family.

Here are some of our favourites:

• 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 (up to £2,250 based on company performance and subject to eligibility)
• 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
• 10% monthly discount with Busy Bees Nurseries and one-week free childcare
• Dedicated training and development with our Academy
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
• Family friendly policies
• Two paid volunteering days per year

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