Sponsor

Yorkshire Water; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car or cash allowance

Pension up to 12% company contribution

Health cash plan

Life assurance 4x pensionable salary

Retail savings scheme

Online GP service

Cycle to work scheme

Gym membership discounts

Wellness days

Job summary

Yorkshire Water is hiring an Asset Planning Sponsor within the Integrated Catchment Team. You will lead programmes to investigate, diagnose, and develop solutions for catchment and compliance risks, ensuring cost-effective asset planning and regulatory alignment.

You will collaborate with Tactical Asset Planners and wider Asset Planning teams to define investment needs, articulate expected outcomes, and deliver data-driven decisions that support Yorkshire Water’s strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience with data platforms and analytics in asset management or water/wastewater sectors.
• Develop data-driven strategies to improve asset performance and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to interpret multiple datasets and translate insights into investment decisions.
• Strong communication to explain data insights to stakeholders.
• Experience with data governance and data assurance practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive End-to-End Catchment Investigations across the asset data programme.
• Define investment needs and articulate data risks impacting long-term planning.
• Oversee contractor scope and align with project teams and stakeholders.
• Develop data-driven solutions to support asset planning decisions.
• Develop business cases and articulate data improvement needs to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure post-delivery data validation and identify risks for future cycles.
• Identify, assess and manage project-level risks in the data portfolio.

Skills

Strong Data Management

Analytical Mindset

Performance Reporting & Insight

Wastewater & Catchment understanding

Stakeholder Management & Communication

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Python

PySpark

Job description

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Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:

• We offer a competitive salary range of £45,143 to £56,430, depending on experience.
• This role has been classified as a Business Needs Users (BNU) and could be eligible for a Company Car or Cash Allowance subject to company criteria.
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution).
• Development opportunities in line with the Asset Planning Sponsor progression plan.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – plus an extra two wellness days!
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary.
• A great benefits package – choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme.
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Location: This role is a flexible hybrid working arrangement with an expectation that up to 3 days of the week will be spent working from the office where the team operates in Sheffield. There may also be some travel to our wastewater assets

Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Asset Planning Sponsor to join the Integrated Catchment Team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

What we do:

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. Asset Management (Waste) are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

Where you fit in:

As our Asset Planning Sponsor within the Integrated Catchment Management team, you will lead the delivery of programmes that investigate, diagnose, and develop solutions for catchment and compliance risks. You’ll be instrumental in ensuring our catchment asset plans are supported, ensuring they meet regulatory and compliance requirements whilst identifying the most cost-effective TOTEX (total expenditure) solutions.

Working alongside our Tactical Asset Planners, a key part of your role will be to define investment decisions and clearly articulate the anticipated Measures of Success using data. This will help determine whether interventions require immediate delivery or should inform future asset planning cycles. You’ll collaborate closely with the wider Asset Planning teams across Infra and Non-Infra, as well as our delivery partners, to ensure alignment, and review potential investment overlaps.

Key responsibilities:

• Driving End-to-End Catchment Investigations. Have a responsibility across the asset management data programme, ensuring key deliverables are met to the agreed timeframes.
• Defining Investment Needs. Set clear requirements from the outset, articulating the risks of missing data and its implications for long-term investment planning.
• Contractor Oversight & Delivery Management. Defining the contractor scope and priorities, ensuring alignment with the teams objectives and escalating programme-level risks to senior stakeholders.
• Data Solution Development. Oversee the development of data driven solutions that support the team in defining and developing solutions.
• Develop Business Cases. Profound communication and written skills to articulate the need for data improvement activities to support wider business needs.
• Strong Data Assurance. Ensure post-delivery assessments are conducted to validate any data or reports. Identifying any latent risks and next steps to improve submissions for future cycles.
• Risk Management. Identifying, assessing, and managing project level risks in the data portfolio.

What skills would be desirable to us:

• Strong Data Management. Familiarity with a range of asset data types and systems and how to manipulate these to be able to show trends and articulate the decisions made,
• Analytical Mindset. An analytical mindset with the ability to interpret and integrate multiple datasets to investigate, diagnose, and develop effective solutions at both asset and catchment levels,
• Performance Reporting & Insight. Ability to collect, analyse and communicate key performance metrics, translating data into actions and identifying emerging risks across wastewater assets and catchments.
• Wastewater & Catchment understanding. Foundational level engineering and/or hydraulic knowledge of wastewater assets and catchments,
• Stakeholder Management & Communication. Ability to communicate complex technical and data-driven findings to a range of stakeholders, influencing decisions and securing support for investment priorities.

You will also benefit from having any of the below:

• Experience building data platforms. Strong skills in Microsoft Fabric, Python, and PySpark, with experience building cloud-based data platforms and distributed data processing solutions
• Catchment Modelling Awareness. Familiarity with catchment modelling tools and their role in supporting investigation and planning activities.
• Regulatory & Environmental Understanding. Awareness of relevant regulatory frameworks and environmental policies affecting wastewater operations.
• Asset Management Exposure. Experience in asset management, with a developing understanding of asset lifecycle principles and performance considerations.

Although we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it’s important to us that we support flexible working patterns and job share options (when we can), to help you make the best of both your work and home life. We know that juggling childcare responsibilities or getting that ideal work/life balance isn’t always easy!

Do we sound like your cup of Yorkshire tea?

Closing Date: 7th December

Interviews TBC

If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance.

All our roles are subject to a medical questionnaire, and further medicals when required.

We are proud to serve the Yorkshire region and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply.

Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.