- Manage operational frontline teams for repair and maintenance activities, with a strong focus on health & safety and quality standards.
- Have a good understanding of water networks.
- Utilise analytical and problem-solving skills in high-pressure environments.
- Engage with customers, councils and wider stakeholder relationships to help work get delivered in a timely manner with minimal disruption.
- Champion change through a passion for continuous improvement, promoting best practice ways of working and sharing local knowledge.
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills to coach and optimise the performance of your frontline teams.
- Effectively manage operational risk through engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
- Be IT literate, as all repair and maintenance work is managed electronically.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
- EUSR Water Hygiene.
- Street works qualified. (NRSWA)/SMSTS)
- Service Avoidance L2.
- First aid qualified.
- Asbestos and COSHH awareness.
- Abrasive wheels would be beneficial.
- Manual handling training would be beneficial.
- Confined space awareness would be beneficial.
- Offering a salary up to £47,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience, plus a van and a fuel card.
- 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
- Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
- Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTS and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.