Water Asset Health Engineer

As an Asset Health Engineer you will be responsible for the implementation of the maintenance strategy in your geographic area, as well as maintenance improvement activities. You will develop close working relations with local operations and maintenance teams to understand their problems, provide support and influence their approach. Your responsibilities will include: 1. Implementing the maintenance strategy in your assigned geographic region, ensuring that requirements are understood and that maintenance plans are delivered. 2. Contributing to an optimised maintenance strategy that aligns to business objectives, in collaboration with business stakeholders. 3. Supporting a culture of continuous improvement and maintenance excellence, ultimately delivering a reduction in reactive maintenance by ensuring that appropriate root cause analysis is undertaken for failures, leading to improvement actions that are identified and tracked. 4. Optimising planned maintenance activities to drive cost efficiencies and improve performance. 5. Delivering improvements in availability of data by implementing practices in your geographic area. Utilising this data to provide insight and help operations and maintenance teams improve their performance. 6. Working with operational teams in the delivery of activities through the maintenance supply chain in the most efficient and effective way. 7. Manging your own professional development and growth to ensure you remain a subject matter expert in Lean principles and maintenance excellence.Who you'll work with Internal

• Wider Production Client Team.
• Frontline operational colleagues and maintainers.
• Operations management.
• Statutory Maintenance Team.
• Wastewater Maintenance and Reliability Team.
• Procurement Team.
• Capital Delivery.
• Wider Water Assets teams including distribution, design and commercial.
• All levels of management within DCWW.
External
• Regulators - DWI/OFWAT/NRW etc.
• MRO supply chain.
• Teams and individuals in other Water companies working on maintenance and reliability., The successful candidate will be required to participate in a standby rota
• This role involves hybrid working
• A full UK drivers licence is required
  
  An excellent understanding of maintenance and reliability, earned through maintenance delivery roles.
• A proven maintenance professional, with an understanding of best practices and how maintenance impacts performance.
• A track record of working with or within operational teams, in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to analyse data to generate insight and drive performance. Experienced in reporting maintenance performance based on an understanding of key performance indicators.
• A strong technical background with an understanding of the operation and maintenance of Water supply including mechanical, electrical and instrumentation equipment.
• Enthusiastic about putting our customers first every day.
• The ability to communicate effectively to frontline colleagues as well as management in the organisation, including the presentation of data.
• The ability to build productive, collaborative relationships and represent the business in a credible manner with regulatory stakeholders.
• A continuous improvement mindset and an ability to drive these activities with the teams your working with.
• UK driving licence and ability to travel as job requires.
Good to know

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas. To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company's required security objectives. We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve. In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for. Dŵr Cymru Cyf, a limited company registered in Wales No. 2366777. Registered office: Linea, Fortran Road, St. Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0LT

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:
• Variable pay schemes (your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
• Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
• Enhanced employer pension contributions - Up to 11% employer contributions
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free on-site parking at all our sites
• Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Car-leasing scheme
• Health CashBack scheme
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment. Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest. Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.