Responsibilities:
1. To objectively validate and consolidate all identified risks for the County area and asset base into a single location; to a standardized quality and format, so that decisions regarding the prioritization of responses to these risks can be taken with confidence, and developed into the Asset Management Plans by the Asset Managers.
2. To coordinate the collation of risks to service and provide the governance to validate the quality of the evidence supporting these risks.
3. With responsibilities for objectively capturing risks on all assets and the services that they provide to our customers, these roles will be accountable to the Risk Manager.
4. Own, develop and maintain the Risk Register for your county area and asset base, liaising with colleagues from across the business area to drive consistent ways of capturing and quantifying those risks, ensuring that these are scored consistently and objectively so that they are comparable regardless of their method of identification or provenance.
5. Validate and challenge the evidence for each risk and the quantification applied.
6. To proactively identify risks by interrogating corporate data sources housing asset life and performance information and validate this with observed data captured by operations staff, feeding back discrepancies into systems teams and data collectors to drive the continuous improvement of data quality within these systems.
7. To support the Risk Manager(s) with analysis on risk trends, and making recommendations on levels of risk.
8. Work closely with the Asset Management team to champion and contribute to the continuous improvement of the Wholesale Risk and Asset Planning (WRAP) framework, aligning it to the principles of ISO 55000 the International Standard for Asset Management best practice.
9. To provide governance and guidance to colleagues from Operations, Asset Management and Strategy to ensure consistency and objectivity of risk capture, through challenge and feedback and support with training where necessary.
10. Interrogate corporate asset and performance systems to identify and/or predict asset performance deterioration to discuss at WRAP Core Team meetings. Add subsequently agreed risks to the Risk Register.
11. Provide Risk Register MI into: The WRAP Tier 3 meetings for prioritization by the Risk Manager and the risk sponsor SMEs for the Business Unit Risk Assessments (BURA), and the county teams as required.
12. Provide governance for the Tier 1, 2 and 3 meetings measuring compliance with the WRAP framework. This includes checking that all possible risk mitigation responses have been considered and captured as the risk has escalated.
13. Provide governance for risks identified through the methodologies ensuring compliance with the process.
Minimum Requirements:
1. Relevant educational qualifications, normally a degree in a numerate or technical discipline.
2. A Certificate in Asset Management is desirable.
3. Requirement to maintain knowledge and skills to be able to develop within the role. This will normally include working towards, or being, a member of a relevant professional body (e.g. Institute of Asset Management, CIWEM, IWO, Institution of Civil Engineers, Society for the Environment).
4. A valid driving licence is essential.
5. Good data analysis, coordination and planning skills having a methodical mindset and attention to detail.
6. Ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders to champion compliance with the Wholesale Risk and Asset Planning framework.
7. Excellent skills manipulating large datasets using Excel, and databases.
8. Experience of VBA, SQL and developing dashboards would also be advantageous.
9. Computer literate and familiar with common computer software packages such as Windows.
10. Preferably at least 2 years post-graduate water industry experience.
11. Some knowledge of operations, techniques and some understanding of the Water Industry regulatory framework and funding mechanisms.
Full driving licence is required for this role.
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