Who are we?
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km’s of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity in our Water Production business for a Technical Specialist as the successful candidate your role will be to provide our customers with a continuous supply of safe, clean, and palatable drinking water – by focusing on our five key priorities – our people, health & safety, water quality, risk & resilience, and efficiency.
As the Technical Specialist, You will be the technically competent person in water processes and water production operations who manages significant risks all the way through the business process through to project completion.
You will be representing the production team throughout this process, which requires scoping, design, delivery, and commissioning. You will be experienced with water production assets and have knowledge of a wide range of assets from boreholes, water treatment works and storage reservoirs. Key to the role is collaboration and stakeholder engagement, both within and outside of Water Production
Key Accountabilities:
- Technical Competence: Continuously develops and maintains operational expertise in an area/and or across certain asset types and can work to tight timescales with multiple stakeholders to deliver projects on time and within scope.
- Capital Delivery Interface: Responsible for ensuring projects progress through the project stage gates, by effective liaison with the relevant teams (asset management, project definition, operations and capital delivery) to ensure that the projects are delivered on time and within scope.
- Capital Delivery Facilitation: Supporting facilitation of all projects (either delivered directly or through the area operations teams) including permitting, outage management and team engagement
- Commercial Acumen: Appreciation of Opex targets and budgets in the area and how project delivery impacts financial risk
- Technical Team Support: Able to step in and support the area technical team, understanding the risk management process and process assurance methods
- Health and Safety: supporting the maintenance of statutory compliance in the area i.e. permits and H&S inspections.
We’re looking for you to have:
- A strong Process Competence. Management of Disinfection and extensive practical operational experience.
- A good understanding of the risk management process and interactions with Asset Management. Technically competent in specific area operations
- Construction and/or asset management experience would be advantageous
- IOSH; knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and application.
- Strong IT skills (especially Excel) and an ability to interrogate data.
- Good communicator and ability to develop effective relationships. You will demonstrate confidence to present to and to influence Leaders in the organisation at all levels.
- Excellent organisational skills, a keen eye for detail.
- Financial and commercial acumen
- You will have a passion for driving positive behaviours throughout your region. You will be able to deliver against stretching operational targets and must be commercially astute.
- Due to the nature of the role, a full UK Driving licence is required, however, a car allowance will be provided.
What’s in it for you:
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles, we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader and we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
You can find out more in our working for us section of our website.