Production Lead

Affinity Water; Rickmansworth; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water utility company in England is seeking a Production Lead to oversee water production operations at their Rickmansworth site. This role involves managing front line teams and ensuring compliance with health and safety and water quality standards. The ideal candidate will have proven leadership skills, strong technical expertise, and a UK driving licence. Benefits include a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Car Allowance

Annual bonus scheme

Learning and development opportunities

Generous pension scheme

Up to 30 days annual leave

Wellbeing support services

Community volunteering days

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Proven experience in production operations and team leadership.
• Strong technical expertise in Health and Safety, water quality, and compliance.
• UK Driving Licence required.

Responsibilities

• Lead all front line teams and maintenance operations.
• Ensure health, safety, and environmental compliance.
• Collaborate with local management to deliver projects.

Skills

Leadership and team management

Technical expertise in operations

Problem-solving skills

Health and Safety compliance

Water quality management

Job description

Affinity Water a fantastic opportunity to work with a diverse and experienced production team as a Production Lead at our Rickmansworth site.

The Role:

The Production Lead provides leadership and technical expertise across Water Production operations and actively manages and develops the team in their area. The Production Lead has ownership of their area, working with the front line teams (process/mechanical and electrical), whilst providing problem solving through their expertise and collaborating with key stakeholders.

Accountable to identify and deliver outcomes for Maintenance, Water Quality, H&S, Compliance and drive a positive culture within the team to deliver performance commitments and key performance indicators.

What you\'ll be doing:

• Lead and take full accountability of all of the front line teams, Maintenance and operational delivery.
• Accountable for ensuring strong Water Quality, health, safety, environment, security and well-being culture.
• Work collaboratively with the Planning Delivery Manager role to ensure the Maintenance plan is delivered.
• Collaboration with colleagues, local management team and key stakeholders to deliver key projects and asset improvements, proactively address emerging problems, challenge peers and influence solutions to prevent impact to operations, and drive efficiencies.
• Provide technical training to the front line teams and mentoring, ensuring competency is met by the team.
• Provide support and cover for other regions during incidents, and to cover for periods of absence.
• Produce Safe systems of work, Method Statements and Risk Assessments. Ensure all work in your area is delivered under a safe system of work and complies with regs, and company policy and standards
• Ensure data for the area is accurate and kept up to date such as: on the maintenance system, manuals, drawings.

This role will also require you to be a member of Duty Production Lead standby rota. Provide ‘Bronze’ level support during incidents and emergencies.

What you\'ll need:

• Proven experience in production operations, team leadership, and performance management.
• Strong technical expertise in Operations, health and safety, water quality, compliance, and asset management.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make data-driven decisions.
• UK Driving Licence.

Advert Closing Date: 9/11/25

Benefits:

• Salary: £56,500 - £61,500
• (salary dependant on skills and experience)
• Standby: 1 in 10 (Standby included in salary)
• Car Allowance
• Working Hours: 08:00am - 16:00pm (Mon -Thu) 08:00am - 15:30pm (Friday)
• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
• Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
• A generous \"double match pension scheme\" that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets and on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme.
• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.
• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

What is a disability?

A disability is a long-term physical or mental health condition that has a substantial impact on someone’s day-to-day activities.

What if I need adjustments during the recruitment process?

Let the Talent Acquisition lead mentioned on the job advert know – they’ll be able to help you.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.