Maintenance Manager jobs in United Kingdom

Operations & Maintenance Manager (Water Industry)

circa £55,000 to £65,000 per annum + up to 20% annual bonus

West Midlands

Permanent, Full-Time, 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday) plus 1 in 7 standby rota

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, birthday day off, generous annual incentive scheme at 20%, car allowance, Westfield healthcare plan for you and your dependents, excellent pension scheme, buy / sell annual leave, flexible working hours, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced maternity and paternity benefits, comprehensive health & wellbeing programme and lots more!

We are seeking individuals who are driven, resilient and water-industry proficient to support the day-to-day operations and maintenance of our clean and wastewater assets. Using your expertise in a similar role—perhaps gained with one of the SU’s or within a smaller private company—you will be pivotal in delivering our operational objectives efficiently and cost-effectively. You will use your wealth of experience to minimise operational disruption, implement improvements, and lead our critical O&M team across a large operational area. On occasion, you will deputise for our team of seven Operations and Maintenance Managers to ensure continued excellent service. You will be key in ensuring assets across the MOD estate comply with regulatory and contractual obligations while keeping customers at the core of all we do. Our ideal candidate is a proven people manager with extensive water industry experience and a flair for continuous improvement. You will ideally be based in the West Midlands and surrounding areas, but we welcome applications from slightly outside the region.

• Assessing and improving current processes across the operations and maintenance team
• Effective leadership and management of a field-based operations team, along with effective and timely budget management
• Driving forward a strong health, safety, environment and wellbeing culture
• Acting as an area Subject Matter Expert for Ancala Water Services and advising upon best practice solutions
• Building strong, trusted relationships with the wider business such as Asset Management, Project Management and Commercial teams
• Managing and developing relationships with external partners and representing AWS to key stakeholders where required

• Technical water industry knowledge and experience in a water and wastewater operations and maintenance environment
• Demonstrable understanding and experience of H&S practices, including managing contractors (IOSH qualified or equivalent)
• Experienced with coordinating internal project work and supply chain project work in a reactive environment
• Skilled and confident IT skills, including MS Office at an intermediate level, proficiency with mobile devices and experience with different software packages and databases
• Experience managing large budgets, along with strong financial and commercial acumen
• Effective leadership of field-based teams whilst promoting a positive team and work culture
• Ability to deliver operational requirements to meet challenging targets and deadlines
• Confident and persuasive communicator with all hierarchical levels and able to explain technical information clearly
• Skilled with developing and maintaining strong relationships to establish reliability, credibility and expertise

Due to the nature of sites on which we operate, the successful candidate must:

Meet the security vetting requirements for the role, which includes, but is not limited to, being a full-time resident of the UK for the past 5 years and an enhanced DBS Check.

Possess a valid driving licence and be comfortable driving to different sites regularly across our operational areas. There will also be overnight stays on occasion.