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.
What is the purpose of this role?
Working in the Performance Risk and Optimisation team, within the Wastewater Network Operations Business this role is pivotal in enabling the business to achieve its environmental, operational and financial targets. Thames Water is committed to improving capability and utilising innovation to meet increasingly challenging targets to sustain asset and process resilience.
You will be focused on releasing intelligence and insight from operational data and ensuring alignment with core business objectives and drivers. Your innovative use of reporting and performance visualisation will ensure that key decision-making outputs, intervention delivery, performance, and benefit tracking are all appropriately aligned to business objectives and drivers.
This role is also accountable for the insight processes that are deployed in terms of continuity, quality and sustainability as these outputs are also a catalyst for change and further improvement
What makes the role unique?
Collaborating with like-minded professionals and teams across the operational division of the organisation, this is a career enhancing opportunity to influence and lead the transition to data driven decision tools on an enterprise-wide scale. This is a game changer for the business as it develops processes, infrastructure, systems and visualisations that constantly build capability, competence, trust and accountability.
This role enables you to develop, innovate and to showcase your capability and set new standards as you demonstrate through your knowledge of systems, data and business analysis, your passion to deliver solutions that enable the business to excel against its challenges.
What will this role involve?
Working with a mixture of analysts, stakeholders and technology delivery leads to constantly evolving and developing data solutions that deliver continuous improvement to our capability to align intervention delivery with performance against objectives.
Developing a clear understanding of operational performance and processes and leading the development and deployment of decision-based solutions that deliver measurable impact against detailed objective targets, supporting the transition of key decision making from reactive to proactive and insight driven.
Change and transition will be the result of extensive detailed data analysis, stakeholder engagement, proof of concept and demonstrable monitoring of impact against objective and benefit.
A key attribute of this role is to be able to deploy change in a way that promotes and develops engagement, ownership, accountability and trust.
What skills are we looking for?
This is a specialised role. You will be an excellent communicator able to operate across all levels of the business with proven competency performing advanced data analytics within the architecture of an enterprise wide systems containing asset, process, performance and geospatial data sets. Ideally, this would be in an engineering or utility (water) based industry.
Clear evidence of influencing and delivering change within a challenging environment are as essential as demonstrable ability to be able to exploit complex data and decision tools and ensure outputs and communication are relative to operational and objective scenarios.
Thames Water is migrating towards the Microsoft Azure product suite deploying cloud based and physical solutions. The successful candidate would be able to demonstrate appropriate competence at an enterprise scale with the following
- Relational Data Management Architectures
- Data analytics, mining, statistical analysis
- Data transitioning and ETL
- Analytical processing
- Asset and Attribute data structures
- Geospatial analysis
- Result and performance visualisation
What’s in it for you!
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
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.
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